Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves
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Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves
Cant; English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- Social life and customs; Vice
Bobbish, tol lol, pretty well in health
Body bag, a shirt
Body snatchers, bailiffs, police officers
Boggy, kiddy, covey
Bog trotters, lower orders of Irishmen
Bogey, old Nick, the devil
Bolt the moon, to cheat the landlord by taking the goods away in the
night, without paying the rent
Bolt, cut, go, make yourself scarce
Bolted, hopped the twig, shuffled, gone
Bone, to steal
Bone box, the mouth
Bonesetter, a hackney coach
Bonnetter, a thump on the hat
Bon vivant, a choice spirit, a jolly dog
Booth, a place for harbouring thieves
Booked, in for it, dished
Booze, drink
Boozy, drunk
Boozing ken, a lush crib, a sluicery, alehouse
Bore, a tedious story, or a vexatious circumstance
Bordell, a bawdyken, house of ill fame
Bottle-head stupid, void of sense
Bought, anything that's dearly paid for
Bounce, to lie, to swagger
Bounceable, proud, saucy
Bower, the, Newgate
Bowsprit, cork snorter, the nose
Bow wow mutton, cag mag, dog's flesh, bad ill looking meat
Bow wow broth, broth made of stinking meat
Bow mam, a thief
Box o'dominos, mouth and teeth
Box of ivory, the teeth
Box Harry, to go without victuals
Boxed, locked up
Boxing a Charley, upsetting a watchman in his box
Brads, money
Brass, impudence
Bracket face, devilish ugly
Bravoes, bullies
Bread basket, the stomach
Breaking shins, borrowing money
Breeze, kicking up a, exciting a disturbance
Brisket beater, a Roman Catholic
Brick, a loaf
Broads, cards
Brogue, Irish accent
Broom, go, cut, be gone
Browns, copper coin
Brown Bess, a soldier's firelock
Brown suit, no go
Brown gater droppings, heavy wet, heavy brown, beer
Brush, or buy a brush, be off, make yourself scarce
Brusher, a full glass
Brushed off, run away
Bub, guzzle, drink
Bubble, to cheat, defraud
Bub, rum, good liquor
Bub, queer, bad liquor
Buff, to, to swear falsely, to perjure
Buffer, a perjurer
Buffer napper, dog stealer
Bug, to damage
Buggaboes, sheriff's officers
Buggy, a one-horse chaise
Bugging, money taken by bailiffs not to arrest a person
Bull, a blunder
Bull, crown piece
Bull, half a crown piece
Bull dogs, pistols
Bulk, a fellow that attends a pickpocket, to receive stolen goods
Bully, a cowardly blustering fellow, pretended husband to a bawd or
prostitute
Bully rocks, impudent villains kept to preserve order in houses of ill
fame
Bully traps, pretended constables called to frighten the unwary and
extort money
Bum, a bailiff
Bum'd, arrested
Bunce of dog's meat, a squalling child in arms
Bunce of fives, the closed hand, the fist
Bunch of onions, chain and seals
Bunter, a low-life woman
Buntlings, petticoats
Bung-eyed, drunk, tipsy
Burning the ken, vagabonds residing in an alehouse, and leaving it
without paying the reckoning
Buss, a kiss
Bustle, ready money
Buster or burster, a loaf of bread
Button, a bad shilling
Buttering up, praising, flattering
Buttock and file, pickpocket
Buzman, a pickpocket
Buz, a pickpocket
Bye-blow, a bastard
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