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
_When we enter’d the Ken, we loapt up the Dancers, and Fagotted all
there_, c. when we got into the House, we whipt up Stairs and Bound all
the People there.
_Wheatgear_, a Bird smaller than a Dottrel, choice _Peck_.
_Whether-go-ye_, a Wife.
_Whet_, a Draught or Sup to encourage the Appetite.
_Whet-stones-park_, a Lane betwixt Holborn and Lincolns-Inn-fields, fam’d
for a Nest of Wenches, now de-park’d.
_Whids_, c. Words.
_Whiddle_, c. to tell, or discover. He Whiddles, c. he Peaches. _He
Whiddles the whole Scrap_, c. he discovers all he knows. _The Cull
has Whiddled, because we wou’dn’t tip him a Snack_, c. the Dog has
discover’d, because we didn’t give him a share. _They Whiddle beef, and
we must Brush_, c. they cry out Thieves, we are Pursued, and must Fly.
_Whiddler_, c. a Peacher (or rather Impeacher) of his Gang.
_Whiggs_, the Republicans or Common-wealths-men, under the Name of
Patriots, and Lovers of Property; originally the Field-conventiclers in
the West of _Scotland_.
_Whiggish_, Factious, Seditious, Restless, Uneasy.
_Whig-land_, Scotland.
_Whip-shire_, Yorkshire.
_Whipster_, a sharp, or subtil Fellow.
_Whip off_, c. to Steal, to Drink cleaverly, to Snatch, and to run away.
_Whipt through the Lungs_, run through the Body with a Sword. _Whipt in
at the Glaze_, c. got in at the Window.
_Whim_, a Maggot.
_Whimsical_, Maggotish.
_Whimper_, a low, or small Cry. _What a Whimpering you keep?_
_Whindle_, a low or feigned Crying.
_Whineth_, see _Otter_. _To Whine_, to cry squeekingly, as at
Conventicles.
_Whinyard_, a Sword.
_Whipper-snapper_, a very small but sprightly Boy.
_Whip-Jacks_, c. the tenth Order of the Canting Crew; Counterfeit
Mariners Begging with false Passes, pretending Shipwrecks, great Losses
at Sea, _&c._ narrow escapes; telling dismal Stories, having learnt
_Tar-terms_ on purpose, but are meer Cheats.
_Whirlegigs_, Testicles.
_Whisk_, a little inconsiderable, impertinent Fellow.
_Whisker_, a great Lie.
_Whiskins_, c. shallow, brown Bowls to Drink out of.
_Whistle_, a derisory Term for the Throat. _Wet your Whistle_, to Liquor
your Throat.
_Whit_, c. Newgate. _As five Rum-padders, are Rub’d in the Dark man’s out
of the Whit, and are pik’d in to the Deuseaville_, c. five Highway-men in
the Night broke Newgate, and are gone into the Countrey.
_White-liver’d_, Cowardly; also Pale Visag’d.
_White-wool_, c. Silver.
_White-chappel-portion_, two torn Smocks, and what Nature gave.
_Whow-ball_, a Milk-maid.
_Whur_, the rising or fluttering of Partridge or Pheasant.
_Wicket_, c. a Casement, also a little Door. _As toute through the
Wicket, and see where a Cully pikes with his Gentry-mort, whose Munns are
the Rummest I ever touted before_ c. look through the Casement and see
where the Man walks with a Gentlewoman, whose Face is the fairest I have
ever seen.
_Wicher-Cully_, c. a Silver-smith.
_Wide_, when the Biass of the Bowl holds not enough.
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