A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew in its several tribes of gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats, &c. : $b With an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c.B. E.
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A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew in its several tribes of gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats, &c. : $b With an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c.
B. E.
English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Romanies -- Languages
_Slam_, c. a Trick; also a Game entirely lost without getting one on that
side.
_Slat_, c. a Sheet.
_Slate_, c. a half Crown.
_Sleeping House_, without Shop, Ware-house; or Cellar, only for a private
Family.
_Sleeveless-errand_, such as Fools are sent on, the first of April.
_Sleeveless story_, a Tale of a Tub, or of a Cock and a Bull. _To laugh
in one’s Sleeves_, inwardly slyly.
_Slice_, when a Hawk _Muteth_ a great distance from her.
_Slippery Trick, or Fellow_, deceitful, as having two properties of Ice,
smooth and slippery.
_Slot_, the footing of a Hart.
_Slough_, a deep miry Hole.
_Slubber’d over_, Work slightly wrought, or huddled up in haste.
_Slubber-degullion_, a slovenly, dirty, nasty Fellow.
_Slug_, a drone, or dull Tool; also a Bullet, beat into another Shape.
_Slur_, c. a Cheat at Dice; also a slight Scandal or Affront.
_Sly-boots_, a seeming Silly, but subtil Fellow.
_Smack_, a Tang, or ill Taste.
_Smacking-cove_, c. a Coachman.
_Smart-money_, given by the King, when a Man in Land or Sea-Service has a
Leg Shot or Cut off, or is disabled.
_Smart_, witty, sharp; also pain.
_Smatterer_, one half-learned. _A Smattering._, a slight Tincture in any
Skill or Learning.
_Smeller_, c. a Nose.
_Smelling-cheat_, c. a Nose-gay; also an Orchard or Garden.
_Smelts_, c. half Guineas. _Tip me a Smelt_, c. Prithee lend me half a
Guinea.
_Smirk_, a finical, spiuce Fellow. _To Smirk_, to look pleasantly.
_Smiter_, c. an Arm.
_Smash_, c. to kick down Stairs. _The Chubbs, toute the Blosses, they
Smash and make them brush_, c. the Sharpers catch their Mistresses at the
Tavern, making merry without them. Kick them down Stairs, and force them
to rub off.
_Smock-fac’d_, fair Snout.
_Smoke_, to Smoke or Smell a Design. _It is smok’t_, c. it is made
Public, all have notice. _Smoke him, Smoke him again_, to affront a
Stranger at his coming in.
_Smoker_, a Vessel to Blind the Enemies, to make way for the _Machine_ to
Play; also a Tobacconist.
_Smoky_, c. Jealous. _No Smoke but there is some Fire_ as _no Reeds but
there is some Water_, of a thing that will out, because Smoke is a sign
of one, and Reeds or Rushes of the other.
_Smug_, a Black-smith; also neat and spruce.
_Smuglers_, c. those that Cheat the King of his Customs by private
Imports and Exports.
_Smutty_, Bawdy.
_Snack_, c. share or part, _to go Snacks_, c. to go halves or share
and share alike. _Tip me my Snack, or else I’ll Whiddle_, c. Give me my
share, or I’ll tell.
_Snaffle_, c. a Highwayman that has got Booty.
_Snaggs_, large Teeth; also Snails.
_Snappish_, (a Man) peevish, quarrelsom; (a Dog) apt to Bite.
_Snapt_, Taken, Caught.
_Sneak_, c. _goes upon the Sneak at Munns_, c. he privately gets into
Houses or Shops at Night, and Steals undiscover’d. _A Sneaking Budge_, c.
one that Robbs alone.
_Sneaker_, (of Punch) a small Bowl.
_Sneaking_, sheepish, or mean-spirited.
_Snearing_, flickering, fleering.
_Snickering_, Laughing in his Sleeve or privately.
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