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
To sing small, to draw the horns in, to be humbled
To mill a cheating bleat, to kill a sheep
To diamond a horse, to put a stone under the shoe to make it appear
lame
Toddle, to walk
Toddlers, legs
Tog and kicks, breeches and coat
Togged, dressed
Togman, a cloak
Togs, clothes
Tol lol, pretty well in health
Tolo bon rig, persons who go about the country telling fortunes by
signs, pretending to be deaf and dumb
Tolobon, the tongue
Tombstones, teeth
Tonic, a halfpenny
Tooth pickers, Irish watchmen's shillalies
Topper, a hat
Topping, hanging
Topping cove, hangman
Touted, to be followed, or pursued
Touch, to arrest
Tout, to look out sharp, to guard
Tow street, in, said of a person who is being misled or decoyed
Towe, clipt money
Town toddlers, silly fellows taken in by sharpers at play
Town tabby, a dowager of quality
Track, to go
Traps, constables or thief takers
Transporter, the mouth
Tramp, to wander as a beggar
Translators, sellers of old boots and shoes
Trib, a prison
Trine, to hang
Trine, the new drop
Trotters, the legs
Trooper, a blowing, prostitute
Trooper, half a crown
Trump, a good one, a jolly fellow
Trulls, the lowest order of prostitutes, followers of soldiers
Truck, stealing money under pretence of changing
Tuck, victuals
Tuck out, a good meal, a bellyfull
Tuck up fair, Newgate at a hanging time
Tucked up, hanged; married
Tumbler, a cart
Turn-up, a casual set-to, a fight
Tulips of the goes, the highest order of fashionables
Tarter, a queer customer, a powerful enemy
Turnip, a watch
Turkey merchant, driver of turkeys
Twelver, a shilling
Twaddlers, pease
Twig, to see, observe
Twinklers, the eyes
Twirlers, hawkers of men's and women's clothes
Twittoe, two
Tykes, dogs
Tyke boys, dog owners
Tyro, a yokel, a novitiate
U.
Under the screw, in prison
Under the rose, on the sly, concealed enjoyment
Unload pewter, drinking beer from pewter pots
Unrigged, stripped of money and clothes
Up, acquainted with the conversation of the company, apprised of any
transaction
Up to slum, humbug or gammon
Up the spout, articles at the pawnbrokers
Up the flue, being in trouble, on the pot
Upper Benjamin, an upper coat
Upright, alehouse pots
V.
Vamp, to pledge any article
Vampers, stockings
Vhite, gin
Velvet, the tongue
Velvet, to tip the, to talk to a woman, to impose by flowery language
Victualling office, the stomach or paunch
Voil, town
W.
Wapstraw, Johnny Raw, a yokel, a countryman
Wall flowers, old clothes exposed for sale
Wall it, chalking a reckoning up at a public house
Wall fruit, kissing against a wall
Warm, rich
Wattles, the ears
Water pads, fellows who rob ships
Water-heaped, a snivelling fellow
Wearing the breeches, the wife ruling the husband
Wedge, silver plate
Wet the other eye, take another glass
Wetting the neck, drinking
Whacks, shares of booty
Wheadle, a sharper
White wood, silver
White port, gin
Whither, silver bowl
Whimpshire, Yorkshire
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