CLICKER. A salesman's servant; also, one who proportions out the different shares of the booty among thieves.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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COMMISSION. A shirt. CANT.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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PARSON PALMER. A jocular name, or term of reproach, to one who stops the circulation of the glass by preaching over his liquor; as it is said was done by a parson of that name whose cellar was under his pulpit.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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POPS. Pistols. Popshop: a pawnbroker's shop. To pop; to pawn: also to shoot. I popped my tatler; I pawned my watch. I popt the cull; I shot the man. His means are two pops and a galloper; that is, he is a highwayman.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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COLE. Money. Post the cole: pay down the money.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BATTNER. An ox: beef being apt to batten or fatten those that eat it. The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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FUN. A cheat, or trick. Do you think to fun me out of it? Do you think to cheat me?--Also the breech, perhaps from being the abbreviation of fundament. I'll kick your fun. CANT.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BUCK. A blind horse; also a gay debauchee.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CUCUMBERS. Taylors, who are jocularly said to subsist, during the summer, chiefly on cucumbers.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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MALKINTRASH. One in a dismal garb.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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CAVAULTING SCHOOL. A Bawdy-house.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BEVERAGE. Garnish money, or money for drink, demanded of any one having a new suit of clothes.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BITE. A cheat; also a woman's privities. The cull wapt the mort's bite; the fellow enjoyed the wench heartily. Cant.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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FLUSTERED. Drunk.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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TO SPORT. To exhibit: as, Jack Jehu sported a new gig yesterday: I shall sport a new suit next week. To sport or flash one's ivory; to shew one's teeth. To sport timber; to keep one's outside door shut
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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MOSES. To stand Moses: a man is said to stand Moses when he has another man's bastard child fathered upon him, and he is obliged by the parish to maintain it.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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JACKANAPES. An ape; a pert, ugly, little fellow.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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TO LOPE. To leap, to run away. He loped down the dancers; he ran down stairs.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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DIMBER DAMBER. A top man, or prince, among the canting crew: also the chief rogue of the gang, or the completest cheat. CANT.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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GAME. Any mode of robbing. The toby is now a queer game; to rob on the highway is now a bad mode of acting. This observation is frequently made by thieves; the roads being now so well guarded by the horse patrole; and gentlemen travel with little cash in their pockets.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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