_Mug_ in the first three quotations is a _vulgarism_ and means _simpleton_, _greenhorn_; in the last, it is another word (_thieves’ cant_) for _mouth_ or _face_. nab »The chap who _was nabbed_ at B. last week.» (T. T. T. 163. 7.) _A waiter._ = _caught_, _arrested_. Originally _thieves’ cant_. Cf. the Swed. _nappa_: to grasp. nob »The _nobs_ should be made to acknowledge it»! (P. Kelver II. 259 7.) _A businessman, former Whitechapel butcher._ _Nob_, abbreviation of _nobility_, as _mob_ of _mobility_, stands on the same level as _toff_, both of them meaning _person of distinction_. office »I give her _the office_ the next time I see her.» (T. T. T. 144. 3.) _A waiter._ = _the hint_, _the signal_. _To give_ or _tip the office_: to give a hint, a private information. _To take the office_ is to understand and profit by the hint given. peg out »The little beggar, at the end of the time mentioned, ‘pegged out’, to use Jimmy’s word». (Novel Notes 85. 25.) _Young Londoner of the working class._ = _to die_. Vulgar synonyms: _to hop off_, _to hop the twig_, _to kick the bucket_. phiz »Underneath my sneering _phiz_ I’m a blooming ’Arry.» (Novel Notes 204. 4.) _Uneducated Londoner._ _Phiz_, probably an abbreviation of _physiognomy_, is a vulgarism for _face_, _countenance_. put away »You don’t often see anybody _put it away_ like that girl did.» (T. T. T. 126. 9.) _An elderly waiter._ = _to dispose of by eating_. Compare W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads: »And when, as cads would say, He had _put it_ all _away_.» Cf. _stow away_. to queer a pitch »Business is business; and I ain’t going _to queer ’er pitch_ for ’er.» (T. T. T. 137. 7.) _Uneducated young Londoner._ _To queer a pitch_ is to spoil a chance of business. _Pitch_ (vulgar) is a place of sale or entertainment. »He had fixed his _pitch_ outside.» (T. T. T. 124. 10.) Germ. _Stand_, _Bude_. Cf. _To queer_ = to spoil, to outwit. _To queer the stifler_: to cheat the hangman; _to queer fate_: to get the better of the inevitable. rocky »She is a bit _rocky_.»— »A bit rocky?»— »_Upset_, ma’am, _excited_.» (Miss Hobbs 4. 8.) _A servant._ In this sense the expression is vulgar, whereas, in the sense of _broken_ (by drink, illness, poverty, etc.) or _difficult_, _dubious_, it may be considered as verging towards colloquial. (The term is, of course, derived from the verb _rock_.) rorty He entreated me to hold »Smith», the _rorty_ ’Arry, a secret from the acquaintance of »Smythe», the superior person. (Novel Notes 203. 26.) _Young Londoner._ The phrase means: _he was an ’Arry out and out_. _Rorty_ (or _Raughty_) = of the very best. Cf. _rorty-toff_: an out and out swell; _rorty-dasher_: a fine fellow; _rorty-boys_: jolly chaps. The etymology is doubtful; possibly a corruption of _right_ > _righty_? savey »When I comes into your shop to order refreshments, I’m boss. _Savey?_» (T. T. T. 126. 3.)