Queer bitch. An odd, out-of-the-way fellow.
Queer bluffer. The master of a public-house
the resort
of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn
or alehouse
keeper.
Queer bung. An empty purse.
Queer checkers. Among strolling players,
door-keepers
who defraud the company, by falsely checking
the number
of people in the house.
Queer cole fencer. A putter off,
or utterer, of bad
money.
Queer cole maker. A maker of bad money.
Queer cove. A rogue. Cant.
Queer cuffin. A justice of the peace; also a churl.
Queer degen. An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted.
Queer ken. A prison. Cant.
Queer kicks. A bad pair of breeches.
Queer mort. A diseased strumpet. Cant.
Queer nab. A felt hat, or other bad hat.
Queer plungers. Cheats who throw themselves
into the
water, in order that they may be taken
up by their accomplices,
who carry them to one of the houses appointed
by the Humane Society for the recovery
of drowned
persons, where they are rewarded by the
society with a
guinea each; and the supposed drowned
persons, pretending
he was driven to that extremity by great
necessity,
also frequently sent away with a contribution
in his
pocket.
Queer prancer. A bad, worn-out, foundered
horse; also
a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer.
Queer rooster. An informer that pretends
to be sleeping,
and thereby overhears the conversation
of thieves in
night cellars.
Queer street. Wrong. Improper.
Contrary to one’s
wish. It is queer street, a cant
phrase, to signify
that it is wrong or different to our wish.
QUITAM. Aquitam horse; one that will both carry
and
draw. Law wit.
To quibble. To make subtle distinctions;
also to play
upon words.
Quick and nimble. More like a
bear than a squirrel.
Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly
on a business
or errand that requires dispatch.
Quid. The quantity of tobacco put into the
mouth at one
time. To quid tobacco; to chew tobacco.
Quid est
hoc? hoc est quid; a guinea. Half
a quid; half a guinea.
The swell tipped me fifty quid for the
prad; the gentleman
gave fifty pounds for the horse.
Quids. Cash, money. Can you tip me
any quids? can
you lend me some money?
QUIFFING. Rogering. See to roger.
Quidnunc. A politician: from a character
of that name
in the farce of the Upholsterer.


