JACK-AT-A-PINCH, one whose assistance is only sought on an emergency; JACK-IN-THE-WATER, an attendant at the watermen's stairs on the river and sea-port towns, who does not mind wetting his feet for a customer's convenience, in consideration of a douceur. Shakespere has MOE, to make mouths. CROW, "a regular crow, " a success, a stroke of luck, —equivalent to a FLUKE. In the army a barrack or military station is known as a LOBSTER-BOX; to "cram" for an examination is to MUG-UP; to reject from the examination is to SPIN; and that part of the barrack occupied by subalterns is frequently spoken of as the ROOKERY. "—Globe, Dec. Attractive fashionable man in modern parlance crossword clue. 8, 1859.
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1. BRAD-FAKING, playing at cards. The Gipseys, also, found the same difficulty with the English language. COLD COOK, an undertaker. —Household Words, No. Probably from the ancient MORESCO, or MORRIS DANCE.
Is equivalent to wishing a person bad food. It exists because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from people in all walks of life. LUMPERS, low thieves who haunt wharves and docks, and rob vessels; persons who sell old goods for new. Blackstone says it is a corruption of "bound bailiff. Attractive fashionable man in modern parlance crossword. LAME DUCK, a stock jobber who speculates beyond his capital and cannot pay his losses. We graduate from infant garments, usually selected by our parents, into occasionally radical youthful styles and then on to the choices we make as we grow older, and sometimes wiser. BIRD-CAGE, a four-wheeled cab. CUSTOMER, synonymous with CHAP, a fellow; "a rum CUSTOMER, " i. e., an odd fish, or curious person. —Old cant and Gipsey term.
For philological purposes it is not worth so much as any edition of Grose. How charming to a refined ear are ABSKIZE, CATAWAMPOUSLY, EXFLUNCTIFY, OBSCUTE, KESLOSH, KESOUSE, KESWOLLOP, and KEWHOLLUX! Ancient cant, CRANKE, simulated sickness. A learned divine once described orthodoxy as being a man's own DOXY, and heterodoxy another man's DOXY. The terms used by the mob towards the Church, however illiberal and satirically vulgar, are within his province in such an inquiry as the present. Random, three horses in line. TOOL, "a poor TOOL, " a bad hand at anything. Now a general expression.
Madza, is clearly the Italian MEZZA. PITCH THE FORK, to tell a pitiful tale. Four editions were printed—. Generally used to express anything dishonestly taken.
Excepting the obscenities, it is really an extraordinary book, and displays great industry, if we cannot speak much of its morality. However, the term 'classic' is also used in a much broader sense. MAMI, a grandmother. The Anglo-Norman and the Anglo-Saxon, the Scotch, the French, the Italian, and even the classic languages of ancient Italy and Greece, have contributed to its list of words, —besides the various provincial dialects of England. The word Slang is only mentioned by two lexicographers—Webster and Ogilvie. DRAG, a cart of any kind, a coach; gentlemen drive to the races in drags. Both words are slang terms on the Stock Exchange, and are frequently used in the business columns of newspapers. SCHOOL, or MOB, two or more "patterers" working together in the streets. Now the word CANT in its old sense, and SLANG 6 in its modern application, although used by good writers and persons of education as synonymes, are in reality quite distinct and separate terms.
LORD OF THE MANOR, a sixpence. PINK, the acmé of perfection. DUMMACKER, a knowing or acute person. Romance as we understand it today is only loosely connected to the Romantic Movement. WALK-THE-BARBER, to lead a girl astray. A writer in Household Words (No. JOGUL, to play up, at cards or other game. SOOT BAG, a reticule. TURNED OVER, to be stopped and searched by the police. PANNIKIN, a small pan. PAD, the highway; a tramp. "—Snowden's Magistrate's Assistant, 1852, p. 444.
FLUKE, at billiards, playing for one thing and getting another. A reprint of Bacchus and Venus, 1737. PEG-TOPS, the loose trousers now in fashion, small at the ankle and swelling upwards, in imitation of the Zouave costume. SWIPES, sour or small beer. This was much used in the Crimea during the Russian campaign. To be had, or TO BE SPOKE TO, were formerly synonymous phrases with TO BE TAKEN IN. I have also ascertained that the famous Orator Henley was known to the mob as Orator Humbug. There are many terms in use at Oxford not known at Cambridge; and such Slang names as COACH, GULF, HARRY-SOPH, POKER, or POST-MORTEM, common enough at Cambridge, are seldom or never heard at the great sister University. TIMBER MERCHANT, or SPUNK FENCER, a lucifer match seller.
MURERK, the mistress of the house. It identifies just three important fashionable themes using pieces selected from the Olive Matthews Collection of costume, housed here at Chertsey Museum. NEWGATE FRINGE, or FRILL, the collar of beard worn under the chin; so called from its occupying the position of the rope when Jack Ketch operates. Boned, seized, apprehended. 41 The Gipseys use the word Slang as the Anglican synonyme for Romany, the continental (or rather Spanish) term for the Cingari or Gipsey tongue. Moore knew nothing of the Gipsey tongue other than the few Cant words put into the mouths of the beggars, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedy of the Beggar's Bush, and Ben Jonson's Masque of the Gipseys Metamorphosed, —hence his confounding Cant with Gipsey speech, and appealing to the Glossary of Cant for so called "Gipsey" words at the end of the Life of Bamfylde Moore Carew, to bear him out in his assertion. I believe the answer is: zaddy. "This work is well timed. The author we suspect to be identical with the publisher, and if so, he has had great opportunity by his possession of a large amount of scarce tracts, ballads, and street publications, of informing himself of the language of the vagabond portion of our population.