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
_Snilch_, c. to Eye or See any Body. _The Cull Snilches_, c. the man Eyes
you or Sees you.
_Snitch_, c. _Snitchel_, c. a Filip on the Nose.
_Snite_, c. to Wipe, or Flap. _Snite his Snitch_, c. Wipe his Nose, or
give him a good Flap on the Face. _Sniting_, a Hawk’s Sneezing.
_Sniveling-Fellow_, a Whining Fellow.
_Snow-broth_, Snow-water.
_Snub_, to Check, or Rebuke.
_Snuff_, Pet; also Tobacco taken in Snush.
_Snuffle_, to Speak through the Nose from a Cold or worse.
_Snudge_, c. one that lurks under a Bed, to watch an opportunity to Rob
the House.
_Sock_, c. a Pocket; also to Beat. _Not a Rag in my Sock_, c. I han’t a
Farthing in my Pocket. _I’ll Sock ye_, c. I’ll Drub ye tightly.
_Socket-money_, Demanded and Spent upon Marriage.
_Soft_, Foolish.
_Sohoe_, _Seehoe_, said aloud at the starting a Hare.
_Soker_, a Toper, or Fuddle-cap. _An old Soker_, a true Pitcher-man. _To
set Soking_, to ply the Pot.
_Soldier’s-bottle_, a large one.
_Solomon_, c. the Mass.
{ _Apollo_, a Scholar.
{ _Mars_, Soldier.
_Son of_ { _Venus_, a Lover of Women.
{ _Mercury_, a Wit.
{ _Parclement_, a Lawyer.
_Sooterkin_, a By-word upon the Dutch Women, from a Maggot, or Fancy,
that their using Stoves so much, Breeds a kind of Animal in their Wombs,
like a Mouse, which at their Delivery skips out.
_Soreth_, the Footings of a Hare in the open Field.
_Sorrel-pate_, red Hair’d.
_Sorter_, (at the Post Office) that puts or Digests the Letters into
Order or Method.
_Soul-driver_, a Parson. _He is a Soul_, or loves Brandy. _Of a Noble
Soul_, very generous. _A Narrow-Soul’d Fellow_, a poor-spirited, or
stingy Fellow.
_Souldiers-Mawn’d_, c. a Counterfeit Sore or Wound in the Left Arm.
_Sounder_, a Company of Swine, or wild-Boars.
_Soupe_, Broth, Porridge.
_Souse_. _Not a Souse_, not a Penny. (French Money)
_Sow’s baby_, a Pig.
_Sowse-crown_, a Fool.
_Sow-child_, a Female Child. _He has the wrong Sow by the Ear_, or is in
a wrong Box.
_Sowre_, Crabbed, Surly. Ill-conditioned.
_Soyl_, when any Deer is hard Hunted, and betakes himself to Swimming in
any River.
_Spangles_, c. ends of Gold or Silver.
_Spanish-gout_, the Pox.
_Spanish-money_, fair Words and Compliments.
_Spark_, a spruce, trim, gay Fellow. _A lewd Spark_, a Man of the Town,
or Debauchee.
_Sparring-blows_, the first Strokes to try the goodness of young Cocks
Heels; also those in a Battel before the Cocks come to Mouth it.
_Sparrow-mouth’d_, a Mouth o Heavenly wide, as Sir _P. Sidney_ calls it.
_Speckt-wiper_, c. a colour’d Handkerchief.
_Spider-catcher_, a Spindle for a Man.
_Spider-web_, the subtilties of Logic, which (as _Aristo_ the Chiote
said) tho’ artificial to sight, were yet of no Use.
_Spill_, a small Reward or gift of Money.
_Spindle-shankt_, very small-legg’d.
_Spirit-awky_, as _Kidnap_.
_Spiritual-flesh-broker_, a Parson.
_Spitter_, a red Male Hart of a Year old.
_Splenetic_, Melancholic.
_Split-fig_, a Grocer.
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