The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty ExtravagantHead, Richard
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The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant
Head, Richard
Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- Fiction
_Avtem Mort_ │ A married Woman
_Abram_ │ Naked
_Abram Cove_ │ A Tatter demallion
_Autem_ │ A Church
_Bughar_ │ A Cur
_Bouse_ │ Drink
_Bousing Ken_ │ An Ale-house
_Borde_ │ A Shilling
_Boung_ │ A Purse
_Bien_ │ Good or well
_Benshiply_ │ Very well
_Benar_ │ Better
_Bing_ │ To go
_Bing a waste_ │ To go away
_Bube_ │ The Pox
_Bufe_ │ A Dog
_Bleating cheat_ │ A Sheep
_Belly cheat_ │ An Apron
_Betty_ │ An Instrument to break a door
_Bite the Peter or Roger_ │ Steal the Portmantle or Cloak-bag.
_Budge_ │ One that steals Cloaks
_Bulk and File_ │ The Pick-pocket and his mate
_Cokir_ │ A Lyar
_Cove_ ⎫│
⎬│ A Man
_Cuffin_ ⎭│
_Cuffin-Quire_ │ A Justice of Peace
_Cramprings_ │ Bolt or Shackles
_Chats_ │ The Gallows
_Canke_ │ Dumb
_Crackmans_ │ Hedges
_Calle_ ⎫│
_Togeman_ ⎬│ A Cloak
_Joseph_ ⎭│
_Couch_ │ To lye or sleep
_Couch a Hogshead_ │ To go to sleep
_Commission_ ⎫│
⎬│ A Shirt
_Mish_ ⎭│
_Cackling cheat_ │ A Chicken
_Cassan_ │ Cheese
_Crash_ │ To kill
_Crashing cheats_ │ Teeth
_Cloy_ │ To steal
_Cut_ │ To speak
_Cut bien whids_ │ To speak well
_Cut quire whids_ │ To speak evilly
_Confeck_ │ Counterfeit
_Cannakin_ │ The Plague
_Cly the Jerk_ │ To be whipt
_Clapperdogeon_ │ A Beggar born
_Culle_ │ A Sap-headed Fellow
_Dimber_ │ Pretty
_Damber_ │ Rascal
_Drawers_ │ Stockings
_Duds_ │ Goods
_Deusea-vile_ │ The Country
_Dommerar_ │ A Mad-man
_Darkmans_ │ Night or evening
_Doxie_ ⎫│
⎬│ A Wench
_Dell_ ⎭│
_Dock_ ⎫│
⎬│ To ——
_Wap_ ⎭│
_Deuswins_ │ Two pence
_Dup_ │ To enter.
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