The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars: Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary ManUnknown
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The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars: Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man
I will take my prince’s part against all that shall oppose him, or any of
us, according to the utmost of my ability: nor will I suffer him, or any
one belonging to us, to be abused by any strange abrams, rufflers,
hookers, pailliards, swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks,
jarkmen, bawdy baskets, domerars, clapper dogeons, patricoes, or
curtails; but will defend him or them, as much as I can, against all
other outliers whatever. I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins,
or from the ruffmans, but I will preserve it for the use of the company.
Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy-wap stiffly, and will bring her duds,
margery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, or tibs of the buttery, or any
thing else I can come at, as winnings for her wappings.
_Gigger_, a door.
_Globe_, pewter.
_Glue-pot_, a parson; from joining men and women together in matrimony.
_Glaziers_, eyes.
_Glim_, a dark lantern.
_Glimfenders_, hand-irons.
_Glim_, a candle.
_Glimstick_, a candlestick.
_Gaoler’s coach_, a hurdle.
_Goose Riding_: a goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the
legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, a number of men on
horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull off the head; which if they
effect, the goose is their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire
within the memory of persons now living.
_Grannan gold_, old hoarded coin.
_Green bag_, a lawyer.
_Grig_, a farthing.
_Gropers_, blind men.
_Gutter-lane_, the throat.
_Hammer_, a great lie, a rapper.
_Halberhead_, a silly foolish fellow.
_Half nab_, at a venture, unsight, unseen, hit or miss.
_Half-borde_ sixpence.
_Hams_, breeches.
_Hamlet_, a high constable.
_Hand-me-downs_, second-hand clothes.
_Hanktel_, a silly fellow, a mere cod’s-head.
_Hansan kelder_, a jack in the box, the child in the womb, or a health to
it.
_Harman_, a constable.
_Harmanbeck_, a beadle.
_Hawk_, a sharper.
_Hazel gold_, to beat any one with a stick.
_Hearingcheats_, ears.
_Heaver_, the breast.
_Hell_, the place where the tailors lay up their cabbage or remnants,
which are sometimes very large.
_Hempen widow_, one whose husband was hanged.
_Henfright_, those commanders and officers who are absolutely swayed by
their wives.
_High tide_, when the pocket is full of money.
_Hocus_, disguised in liquor, drunk.
_Hodmendods_, snails in their shells.
_Hoggrubber_, a close-fisted, narrow-minded, sneaking fellow.
_Hop-merchant_, a dancing-master.
_Hum-box_, a pulpit.
_Humpty-dumpty_, ale boiled with brandy.
_Hums_, persons at church.
_Huskylour_, a job, a guinea.
_Iron doublet_, a parson.
_Itchland_, Ireland.
_Jackrum_, a licence.
_Jack Adams_, a fool.
_Jack-a-dandy_, a little insignificant fellow.
_Jack-in-a-box_, a sharper or cheat.
_Jack-at-a-pinch_, a poor hackney parson.
_Jacobites_, sham or collar shirts.
_Jack_, a seal.
_Jet_, a lawyer
_Ken_, a house.
_Kicks_, breeches.
_Kill devil_, row.
_Kinchin_, a little child.
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