![]() ![]() ![]() These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. See Gammonīlind harpers, itinerant vagabonds with harpsīlow out, a belly full, an extraordinary mealīlow the gab, to split, to expose, informīlow me tight, a sort of burlesque oath as, If I don’t I’m jigger’d, &c.The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary. ![]() This dictionary, cribbed from Victorian London, gave me fun and frolics for Lawless & the Devil of Euston Square.įlash Dictionary 1848ĪBBESS, a bawd, the mistress of a bawdyken.Ībram Cove, a naked or poor man, a sturdy beggar in ragsĪbove par, having the needful, possession of the poney, plenty of money, ‘ best bliss of earth’Ībram men, fellows dressing themselves in various rags, old ribbon, fox tails beg-ging in the streets, pretending to be mad, fellows who steal pocket books onlyĪbram, to sham, to slum, to pretend sicknessĪcademican, a scholar at an academy, a whore at a brothelĪcademy, a floating, a hulk at Woolwich for convictsĪck ruffians, rogues who in conjunction with watermen sometimes rob and murder on the waterĪck pirates, fresh water thieves who steal on navigable riversĪcting the deceitful, performing, mumming, actingĪdam’s ale, our first father’s drink, water, ‘best with brandy’Īdam tiler, a receiver of stolen goods, a pickpocket, a fenceĪffair of honour, killing an innocent man in a duelĪll set, desperate fellows, ready for any kind of mischiefĪlive, awake, fly, up, leary, acquainted withĪll out, the reckoning drank out, ‘How stands the account ‘twixt me and vengeance?’Īmbidexter, one who snacks in gaming with both partiesĪnglers or starrers, an order of thieves who break show glasses in jeweller’s windows to steal the goodsĪrch rogue, the chief of a gang of thieves, or gypsiesĪrch doxey, the same among female canters or gypsiesĪstronomer, a star gazer, a horse that carries his head highĪs right as a trevit, the tippy all rightĪ pig’s whisper, a grunt, ‘a word twixt you and me’Īutem cackel tub, a meeting-house for dissenters, a pulpitĪutem divers, pickpockets who practise in churches also churchwardens and overseers of the poor, who defraud, deceive, and impose on the parishĪutemn gogglers, conjurors, fortune tellersĪutem mort, or mot, a woman of the same sect, a beggar, a prostituteĪutem quaver’s tub, a quaker’s meeting houseīABES in the wool, rogues in the stocks or pilloryīack slums, low unfrequented parts in the metropolisīag the swag, pocket your portion, hide your whackīallumn ranorum, a hop or a dance, where the women are all prostitutesīank, a depository for cash at a gaming-tableīanyan day, Saturday, when there’s nothing left to eatīar that, cheese it, stow it, don’t mention itīarber’s clerks, conceited ignorant shop-boysīarker, a salesman’s servant, a prowler to pick up country- men in the streetsīattered bully, an old gloak, well milled huffing fellowīawd, a procuress, a woman that keeps a brothelīeak, a justice of the peace, a magistrateīeak, rum, a justice who will do any thing for moneyīeak queer, a magistrate that is particurlaly strict to his dutyīeaks out on the nose, magistrates out on a search nightīean traps, genteel dressed sharpers, fortune huntersīelly-go-fister, a hard blow on the bellyīever, an afternoon’s luncneon īiddy, a fowl, a capon, or chicken a young chickenīilboa, a sword, or any pointed instrumentīilling and cooing, the sexes humbugging one another courtingīit of cavalry, a knacker, a saddle horseīitch, to, to yield, to give up an attempt thro’ fearīitch, to, a character, or to perform any thing badlyīiting your name in, taking a large draught, drinking greedilyīlab, to, to nose, to chatter, to tell secretsīlack-legs, sharpers, fellows who lay wagers, and after losing cannot pay them a professed gamblerīlarney, a wonderful story flattery. ![]()
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