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
_Rum-strum_, a long wig.
_Rum-swag_, full of riches.
_Scab_, a sixpence.
_School butter_, a whipping.
_Sconce_, to run in debt, to cheat.
_Seeds_, poor, moneyless, exhausted.
_Setters_, or _setting-dogs_, they that draw in bubbles for old gamesters
to rook; also a sergeant’s yeoman, or bailiff’s follower; also an
excise-officer.
_Sharper_, a swindler, a cheat.
_Sharper’s tools_, false dice.
_Shot_, clapped or poxed.
_Shove the tumbler_, whipped at the cart’s tail.
_Skin-flint_, a griping, sharping, close clown; also, the same as flat.
_Smearer_, a painter, or plasterer.
_Smeller_, a nose.
_Smelling cheat_, a nosegay; also an orchard, a garden.
_Smiter_, an arm.
_Smug_, a blacksmith, also neat and spruce.
_Smite_, to wipe or slap.
_Snitch_, to eye or see any body; the cub snitches, the man eyes or sees
you.
_Snout_, a hogshead.
_Sack_, a pocket.
_Shanks’s naigs_, the feet.
_Snacks_, full share.
_Son of prattlement_, a lawyer.
_Soul driver_, a parson.
_South-sea mountain_, Geneva.
_Sow’s baby_, a pig.
_Spanish money_, fair words and compliments.
_Spanks_, money, gold or silver.
_Specked wiper_, a coloured handkerchief.
_Spiritual flesh-broker_, a parson.
_Split fig_, a grocer.
_Splitter of causes_, a lawyer.
_Spoil pudding_, a parson who makes his morning sermon too long.
_Squeel_, an informer.
_Squirrish_, foolish.
_Stamps_, legs.
_Stampers_, shoes, or carriers.
_Stick flams_, a pair of gloves.
_Stoter_, a heavy blow.
_Strapper_, a handsome woman.
_Strommel_, straw.
_Strum_, a periwig.
_Stubble it_, hold your tongue.
_Suit and cloak_, good store of brandy, or agreeable liquor.
_Supouch_, a hostess or landlady.
_Swag_, a shop.
_Swell cove_, a man with plenty of money.
_Tagmans_, a gown or cloak.
_Tanner_, a sixpence.
_Tears of the tankard_, drops of good liquor that falls aside.
_Thrums_, threepence.
_Tickler_, a knowing fellow.
_Tile_, a hat.
_Tip of the buttery_, a goose.
_Tip_, to give or lend.
_Tip’s your flipper_, give us a shake of your hand.
_Toggery_, clothes.
_Top diver_, a lover of women.
_Topping cheat_, the gallows.
_Topping cove_, the hangman.
_Topt_, to go out sharp, to be upon one’s guard.
_To twig_, to disengage, to sunder, to break off.
_To twig the darbies_, to knock of the irons.
_Track_, to go.
_Trees_, wins threepence.
_Trib_, a prison.
_Trine_, to hang, also Tyburn.
_Troch_, a drunkard.
_Trooper_, a half-crown.
_Trundles_, pease.
_Tumbler_, a cart.
_Turkey merchant_, driver of turkeys.
_Vampers_, stockings.
_Velvet_, a tongue.
_To tip the velvet_, to tongue a woman.
_Vinegar_, a cloak.
_Wattles_, ears.
_Whack_, a share.
_Whids_, words.
_Whipshire_, Yorkshire.
_Whoball_, a milkmaid.
_Whisker_, a great lie.
_White wool_, silver money.
_Whibble_, sad drink.
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