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
Funkers, the very lowest order of thieves
G.
Gab, the mouth
Gaff, a fair
Gaffing, tossing with the pie man
Gag high, on the whisper, nosing, telling secrets
Gag low, the last degree of beggary; to ask alms in the streets with a
pretended broken limb
Gage, a quart pot
Gaggler's coach, a hurdle
Galters, blacklegs; gamblers
Galligaskins, breeches
Gams, the legs
Game, courageous, sturdy, hearty, hardened
Gammon, falsehood or bombast
Gammoners, cheats, swindlers
Gan, the mouth
Gape seed, anything that attracts the sight
Garnish, money demanded of people entering into prison
Gay tyke boys, dog fanciers
Gee, suitable; that won't gee, won't do
Gelter, money
Gentry cove, a gentleman
Gentry ken, a gentleman's house
George, yellow, a guinea
George, a half crown piece
Gig, fun, nonsense, ready, on the alert
Gill, a cove, fellow
Gills, cheeks
Gin spinner, proprietor of a gin shop
Grinny, an instrument to lift up a grate, in order to steal what
articles are in the window
Giving turnips, to cut acquaintance, to shun any body
Glazier, one that breaks windows and show glasses in order to steal
goods exposed for sale
Glibe, a writing
Glim, the candle, or light
Glims, peepers, eyes
Glims flashy, a person in a passion
Glim Jack, a link
Glimstick, a candlestick
Glim fenders, hand irons
Gloak, a man
Glue, the lady's fever, venereal disease
Gnostics, knowing ones
Go it, keep on
Go slow, draw it mild, easy
Go by, to rise by superior force, turn the tables, against you
Gob stick, a silver table spoon
God permit, a stage coach
Goggles, the eyes
Goldfinch, yellow boy, gold coin
Gone to pot, become poor in circumstances, gone to the dogs
Goose, to, to hiss like a goose
Goth, A, a fool, an idiot
Grabb, snatch
Grab the bit, to seize the money
Grabbed, taken, or apprehended
Grand strut, Rotten Row, Bond Street
Grand twig, in prime style
Grannum gold, old hoarded coin
Gravel digger, a sharp toed dancer
Gravel tax, money robbed from people on the highway
Grease, money
Greek, St. Giles's, slang language
Greeks, gamblers, blacklegs
Green bag, lawyer
Green, raw, unlearned
Greenhorn, a sponge, a raw countryman
Grig, merry fellow, merry companion
Grinders, the teeth
Groaners, a sort of wretches who attend meetings, sighing and looking
demure; in the meantime their pals pick the pockets of those persons
who may be in the same pew with them. They also rob the congregation
of their watches, as they are coming out of church; exchange their
hats for good ones jocosely called _hat making_; steal prayer-books,
&c.; also fellows who go around with street preachers, who, while the
mock parson is preaching, they pick the pockets of the listeners
Groat, a flag, fourpence
Grogham, a horse
Gropers, blind men
Gropusses, the pockets
Ground sweat, to be buried
Grub, provender, victuals
Grub and bub, victuals and drink
Grunter, a pig
Grunter, a bob, shilling
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