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
Rot gut, swankey, small beer
Row, disturbance, 'and in the ken to breed a row'
Roysters, noisy, turbulent fellows, rude vile singers
Roundyken, the watchhouse
Rumpus, a scuffle
Rub, an obstacle in the way, to run away, to make off
Rub out, when its dry, all right when its forgotten
Ruffman, any person who handles a thief roughly; the wood, hedges
Rugg, all right and safe
Rug carrier, an ensign
Rum blowing, a handsome girl
Rum hopper, a waiter at a tavern
Rum mot, a woman of the town
Rum bob, a shop till
Rum peepers, fine looking glasses, or bright eyes
Rum speaker, good booty
Rum job or rum dagen, a handsome sword
Rum quids, guineas
Rum, pad, the high road
Rum maundy, fellows who counterfeit the fool, going about the streets
in order to obtain charity
Rum kicks, breeches
Rum file, or rum diver, a female pickpocket
Rum dropper, a vintner
Rum cove, good natured landlord
Rum fun, sharp trick
Rum bung, full purse
Rum bow, rope stolen from any of the king's dock-yards
Rum clout, handkerchief
Rum bluffer, a jolly host
Rum bleating cheat, a fat sheep
Rum back, good natured Irishman
Rum barking irons, prime pistols
Rum dumber, good natured prince of the canting crew
Rum quod cull, a gaoler
Rum, or monogin, good, the most valuable of any thing jewels, diamonds
Rum'un, a trump, a good fellow
Rum ti tam with the chill off, good, slab up, the tippy, excellent
Ryder, a cloak
S.
Sack, a pocket
Sack, to, to take up
Sam, a foolish fellow, an idiot
Sam, to stand, to pay for all
Sangaree, rack punch
Sans prisado, a person who comes into company without any money
Saving one's bacon, to escape with a whole skin, to evade any accident
Seedy, poor, miserable looking without money
Scamp, a thief
Setter, persons using the haunts of thieves in order to give
information for the reward
Seven-pence, to stand, to suffer seven years transportation
Sew up the sees, to give a person two black eyes
Scandal broth, tea
Scamp foot, a street robber
Scent box, the nose
School butter, whipping
Scot, a savage person
Scotch fiddle, itch
Scottish, savage, wild, chagrined
Score, a debt, fine
Scout, a watchman or beadle
Screwbado, a dirty fellow, insignificant
Scroof, to go about living with friends at their expense
Scran, victuals
Scrap, a villainous scheme
Screw, a miser
Screw loose, a quarrel between two individuals, something wrong in a
man's affairs
Screen, a pound note
Sharps, persons ready to take you in on all occasions
Shake a toe, to dance
Shark, a lawyer
Shade, nice to a, very particular
She lion, a shilling
Shell, to contribute, club
Sherry, run away, be gone
Sheriff's bail, an execution
Shindy, a regular row, a general quarrel
Shiners, guineas
Shirk, to cut, to skulk
Shop, a gaol
Shop lobber, a dressed up silly coxcomb of a shopman, a powdered fop
Shopped, imprisoned
Shoot, to go skulking about
Shooting the cat, vomiting
Shove, crowd, push
Shove the tumbler, whipped at the cart's tail
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