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
Hop, a sixpenny, a dancing room, where sixpence is the price of
admission
Hop merchant, a dancing master
Hop the twig, run away
Harness, watchmen, constables, police officers
Hot flannel, liquor made of beer and gin, with eggs, sugar, and nutmeg
Hue, to whip, lash
Huff, a bullying, cowardly, fellow
Huggar, drunk
Hum box, pulpit
Hum, a liar, a canting deceitful Wesleyan methodist
Hum, to humbug, deceive
Hums, people at church
Humpty dumpty, boiled ale and brandy
Hunting, drawing unwary people to play
Hush still, quiet
Hush money, money given to compound felony
Huskey lour, a guinea, gold coin
I.
Index, the face
Ignoramus, a stupid fellow, a novice
Inexpressibles, breeches
Ingle boxes, jacks tipped with silver and hung with bells
Ingler, horse dealer of bad character
Interlopers, lazy fellows who are dependent on the generosity of their
friends for support
Irish apricots, potatoes
Irish evidence, false witness
Irish legs, thick legs
Iron doublet, a parson
Iron, money
Itch land, Scotland
Ivories, the teeth
J.
Jack, a farthing
Jack Adams, a muff, stupid fellow
Jack at a pinch, a hackney parson
Jack in the box, a sharper, a cheat
Jack cove, a sloven, dirty fellow
Jack-a-dandy, a little impertinent fellow
Jack pudding, merry Andrew, a clown
Jacken closer, a seal
Jacob, a ladder,
Jacobites, sham or collar shirts
Jackrum, a license for marriage
Jam, gold ring
Jarvey, hackney coachman
Jasey, a wig
Jaw, abusive language
Jehu, a coachman
Jemmy, twopenny, head
Jenny, a picklock
Jet, a lawyer
Jet Autem, a parson
Jew, an over-reaching fellow
Jig, a trick
Jigger, a door, bolt, or private still
Job, guinea
Jobber knot, a tall stupid fellow
Jock gagger, fellows who live on the prostitution of their wives, &c.
Joe, an imaginary person, nobody; as, Who do those things belong to?
Joe
Jolter head, a heavy dull blustering landlord
Jones's, Mrs., the coffee house, privy
K.
Kate, a picklock
Keep up the ball, to live and be jolly
Keep the line, to, to behave with decorum
Ken, a cribb, room
Ken-cracker, house breaker
Ken Bowman, a well furnished house
Ken, flash, a house where thieves and vagrants resort
Ken miller, house breaker
Kick, sixpence
Kick, to borrow money, to ask a favour
Kick the bucket, to expire
Kicksies, breeches
Kid, a fellow thief
Kiddies, flash fellows
Kid lays, villains who defraud boys of their parcels and goods
Kiddiess, a slap up well-dressed girl
Kid, with, pregnant
Kid-nappers, fellows who steal children, and decoy countrymen and
strangers in the street, to rob them; also recruiting crimps
Kidwy, a thief's child
Kill devil, new rum, from its pernicious quality
Kinchin, a young child
Kimbau, to defraud, cheat
King's mots, female children carried on the backs of strollers and
beggars to excite the pity of the public
King's picture, king's head on gold coin
Kinchin coves, fellows who steal children for gypsies, beggars, &c.
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