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
Picture frame, the gallows, or pillory
Pig, a sixpence
Pigman, a trap, or bailiff
Pigeon, a meek stupid easy fellow
Pike off, run away
Pinch, to steal money under pretence of getting change, _see_ Ringing
the changes
Pimple, the head
Pinks of fashion, dashing fellows
Pins, the gams, legs
Pippin, funny fellow, friendly way of expressing one's self as 'How
are you, my Pippin?'
Planket, concealed
Pockets, to let, empty pockets, no money
Point non plus, neither money nor credit
Poke fun, to chaff, joke
Poke, a bag, or sack
Poker, a sword
Poney, money, L50
Pop, to pledge or pawn
Poplers, mess of pottage
Poppers, pistols
Potato, drop it like a, to drop any thing suddenly
Potato trap, the mouth
Potato, red hot, take a, a word by way of silencing a person, a word
of contempt
Pot scum, bad or stinking dripping
Pothooks and hangers, short hand characters
P's & Q's mind your, mind what you're at
Poundage cove, a fellow who receives poundage for procuring customers
for damaged goods
Prad, a horse
Prancers, horses
Prate, roast, a loquacious fellow
Pratt, buttocks
Pricking in the wicker for a dolphin, stealing bread from a baker's
basket
Prigs, thieves, pickpockets
Prime twig, high condition
Prog, victuals
Prog, rum, good victuals
Prog, queer, bad victuals
Property, an easy fellow, a tool made use of to serve any purpose, a
cat's paw
Provender, a person from whom any money is taken on the high road
Pudding house, the workhouse
Pull, having the advantage over an adversary
Pull out, come it strong
Punch, a blow
Punish, to beat in fighting
Punisher, one who beats soundly
Pupil's straits, school tuition
Purgatory, trouble, perplexity
Purl, royal, ale and gin made warm
Purse, a sack
Put, a country fellow, silly, foolish
Putty and soap, bread & cheese
Q.
Quarroms, a body
Queer, base, doubtful, good for nothing, bad
Queer bit makers, coiners
Queer buffer, sharp inn keeper
Queer street, to be in, in a quandary
Queer cove, a rogue, villain
Queer ogles, squinting eyes
Queer patter, foreign talk
Queer rotar, a bad ill looking coach
Queer rag, ill-looking money, base coin
Queer blowing, ugly wench
Queer gill, suspicious fellow
Queer plungers, fellows who pretended to be drowned
Queer cole makers, coiners of bad money
Queer lap, bad liquor
Queer beak, strict justice, upright judge
Queer rag, bad farthing
Queer bit, counterfeit money
Queer lully, deformed child
Queer tats, false dice
Queer vinegar, worn out woman's cloak
Queer belch, sour beer
Queer cove, a turnkey
Queer bid, insolvent sharpers who make a practice of billing persons
arrested
Queer cat lap, bad tea
Queer chum, a suspicious companion
Queer pops, bad pistols
Queer put, an ill-looking foolish fellow
Queer thimble, good for nothing watch
Queer hen, a bad woman
Quota, whack, share
Quod cull, a gaol keeper
Quail pipe, woman's tongue
Queer prad, broken knee'd horse
Queer lambs, bad dice
Queer Nantz, bad brandy
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