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
Queer nicks, breeches worn out
Queer dogen, rusty sword
Queer buffer, a cur
Queer harmen beak, a strict beadle
Queer gum, outlandish talk
Queer glim, a bad light
Queer ken, a gentleman's house without the furniture
Queer doxy, a clumsy woman
Queer booze, bad beer
Queer amen curler, a drunken parish clerk
Qui tam, a shark, lawyer
Qui vive, on the alert, in expectation
Quid, a goldfinch, sovereign
Quiz, a queer one, a gig, an aboriginal
Quod, prison
R.
Radical, Hunt's breakfast powder, roasted corn
Rag, money; I've no rag, meaning I've no notes
Rag, blow up, rap out, scold
Rainbow, a tailor's pattern book
Rainbows, gay young bucks
Rain napper, an umbrella
Rap, I'm not worth a rap, I've got no money
Rap, give evidence, take false oath
Rap out, to swear, blow up, be in a passion
Rat, drunken man or woman taken in custody for breaking the lamps
Rattling cove, a hackney coach man
Rattling gloak, a simple easy fellow
Rattling mumpers, beggars who ply coaches
Ready, money
Reader, a pocket-book
Red rag, the tongue
Red rag, give your, a holiday, hold your tongue
Red tape, Cognac, brandy
Regular, in proper course
Regulars, persons thus called from their leaving parties of pleasure
at eleven or twelve o'clock at night, to the no small discomforture of
many an out-and-outer
Regent, half a sovereign
Resurrection men, fellows who steal dead bodies from the church yard
for the surgeons
Rhino, grease, money
Ribbon, money
Ridge, gold outside of a watch or other article
Ridge cove, a wealthy goldsmith
Riff raff, black beetles, the lower order of people
Rig, fun, game, diversion
Rig out, a suit of clothes
Rig conoblin, cutting the string of large coals hanging at the door of
coal sheds
Rigging, clothing
Right and fly, complete
Ring, to exchange one article for another
Rise, a, a disturbance
Rivertick, tradesman's books
Rivits, money
Roger, a portmanteau
Rooled up, put in a spunging house
Romoners, fellows pretending to be acquainted with the occult
sciences, fortune tellers
Rome ville, London
Rookery, an ill furnished house
Roses, nobility
Rotan, a coach
Rum glimmer, head of the link boy
Rum bodick, dirty shabby fellow
Rum beak, sensible justice
Rum doxy, fine made wench
Rum drawers, silk stockings
Rum gloak, well dressed man
Rum Nantz, good brandy
Rum ghelt, or rum cole, new money
Rum squeeze, wine or other liquor given to fiddlers
Rum prancer, fine horse
Rum rufe peck, Westphalia ham
Rum prad, a highwayman's horse
Rum duke, queer old fellow, rich man
Rum gill, a man who appears to have plenty of money
Rum rush, a number of villains rushing into a house in order to rob it
Rum gutters, cape wine
Rum quid, good guinea
Rum chaunt, good song
Rum booze, good wine, or any liquor
Rum buffer, valuable dog
Rum cly, a full pocket
Rum feeder, large silver table spoon
Rum gaggers, cheats who tell wonderful stories of their sufferings at
sea, in order to obtain money
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