The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars, with a Vocabulary of Their Language — John Shaqi
The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars, with a Vocabulary of Their Language
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The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars, with a Vocabulary of Their Language
Begging -- Germany; German language -- Slang; Wayfaring life -- Germany
_GLESTERICH_, glass. _German_, GLITZERN, to glitter.
_GLID_ (_i.e._ GLEID), a harlot.
_GLIDENBOSS_, a brothel.
_GLIDENFETZERIN_, a frequenter of brothels.
_GLISS_, milk.
_GOFFEN_, SCHLAHEN.
_GRIFFLING_, a finger. _German_, GREIFEN, to grasp.
_GRIN_ (_i.e._ GRYM[19]), food.
_GRUNHART_, a field, _i.e._ very green, or green-like.
_GUGELFRANZ_, a monk.
_GUGELFRENZIN_, a nun.
_GURGELN_, LANTSKNECHTBETLIN, _i.e._ GURGELN LANTSKNECHT, would
seem to refer to a begging foot-soldier.
_HANFSTAUD_, a shirt,—literally “hemp-shrub.”
_HANS WALTER_, a louse. HANZ literally means Jack or John. The old
word HANSA refers to a multitude; _Old German_, HANSE, a society;
HANS, a companion.
_HANS VON GELLER_, coarse bread.
_HAR_, FLEUCH.
_HANZ_, a peasant. _See_ HANS WALTER.
_HANZIN_, a peasant’s wife.
_HEGIS_, a hospital. The _Old German_, HAG, is a house (from HAGEN
to hedge in, inclose), _quasi locus septus habitandi causa_. The
_Old German_, HEGEN, is to nourish, feed, to receive into one’s
house and company. The _Su. Goth._ HÆGA, is to serve.
_HELLERICHTIGER_, a florin.
_HERTERICH_, a knife or dagger.
_HIMMELSTEIG_, the Lord’s Prayer,—literally, “Heaven’s steps.”
_HOCKEN_, to sit, to lie.
_HOLDERKAUZ_, a hen.
_HORK_, a peasant.
_HORNBOCK_, a cow.
_ILTIS_, a constable, town sergeant. The _Modern German_, ILTISS,
or ILTIS, signifies a pole-cat, fitchet; and ILTISFALLE is a trap
for catching pole-cats,—or, as Dr. Johnson calls them, “stinking
beasts.” The _Icelandic_, ILLTUR, is _malus_; and the _Cymrie_,
YLLTYR, is _talpa_, a mole.
_JOHAM_, wine. From the _Hebrew_, YAH’-YIN, wine. Gengenbach
renders this JOHIN.
_JONEN_, to play,—at cards, or other game of chance. _French_,
JOUER?
_JONER_, a player, a gambler.
_JUFFART_, DER DA ROT IST ODER FREIHEIT.
_JUVERBASSEN_, to swear.
_KABAS_, a head. _Latin_, caput.
_KAFFRIM_ (JACOBSBRÜDER), a pilgrim to the grave of St. James.
_KAMMESIERER_, a learned beggar.
_CAVAL_, a horse. _Latin_, CABALLUS.
_CAVELLER_, a slayer, a butcher. _Modern German_, KAFILLER.
_KERIS_, wine. _Modern German_, XERESWEIN, sherry;
or, from KIRSCHE, a cherry,—KIRSCHEN-WASSER, cherry-water.
_CHRISTIAN_ (JACOBSBRÜDER), a pilgrim to the grave of St.
James.
_KIELAM_, a town.
_KIMMERN_, to buy. _German_, KRAMEN, to trade.
_CLAFFOT_, a dress, a cloak. In Gengenbach’s metrical version of
the _Liber Vagatorum_, this is rendered KLABOT, Clothes.
_CLAFFOT-FETZER_, a tailor.
_KLEBIS_, a horse,—literally, “a clover-biter.”
_KLEMS_, punishment, imprisonment. The _German_, KLEMMEN, signifies
to pinch.
_KLEMSEN_, to arrest, imprison.
_KLENKSTEIN_, a traitor.
_KLINGEN_, LEIER;—perhaps one who plays upon a lyre, from the
_German_, KLINGEN, to sound, KLINGELN, to tinkle.
_KLINGENFETZERIN_, LEIERIN,—probably a female player upon
the lyre.
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