RUMBOYLE. A ward or watch.
RUMBUMTIOUS. Obstreperous.
Rumford. To ride to Rumford to have one’s
backside new
bottomed: i.e. to have a pair
of new leather breeches.
Rumford was formerly a famous place for
leather breeches.
A like saying is current in Norfolk and
Suffolk, of Bungay,
and for the same reason.—Rumford
lion; a calf.
See Essex lion.
Rump. To rump any one; to turn the back
to him: an
evolution sometimes used at court.
Rump and a dozen;
a rump of beef and a dozen of claret;
an Irish wager,
called also buttock and trimmings.
Rump and kidney
men; fiddlers that play at feasts, fairs,
weddings, &c.
and live chiefly on the remnants.
Rumpus. A riot, quarrel, or confusion.
Run goods. A maidenhead, being a commodity never entered.
Running horse, or nag. A clap, or gleet.
Running SMOBBLE. Snatching goods off a counter,
and
throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes
off with
them.
Running STATIONERS. Hawker of newspapers,
trials, and
dying speeches.
Runt. A short squat man or woman: from
the small cattle
called Welsh runts.
RUSHERS. Thieves who knock at the doors of great
houses
in London, in summer time, when the families
are gone
out of town, and on the door being opened
by a woman,
rush in and rob the house; also housebreakers
who enter
lone houses by force.
Russian coffee-house. The Brown
Bear in Bow-street,
Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers
and runners
of the Bow street justices.
Rusty. Out of use, To nab the rust; to be
refractory;
properly applied to a restive horse, and
figuratively
to the human species. To ride rusty;
to be sullen; called
also to ride grub.
Rusty guts. A blunt surly fellow:
a jocular misnomer of
RESTICUS.
Rutting. Copulating. Rutting time;
the season, when
deer go to rut.
Sacheverel. The iron door, or blower, to
the mouth
of a stove: from a divine of that
name, who made himself
famous for blowing the coals of dissension
in the latter
end of the reign of queen Ann.
Sack. A pocket. To buy the sack:
to get drunk. To
dive into the sack; to pick a pocket.
To break a bottle
in an empty sack; a bubble bet, a sack
with a bottle in
it not being an empty sack.
Sad dog. A wicked debauched fellow;
one of the ancient
family of the sad dogs. Swift translates
it into Latin by
the words TRISTIS Canis.
Saddle. To saddle the spit; to give a dinner
or supper.
To saddle one’s nose; to wear spectacles.
To saddle a
place or pension; to oblige the holder
to pay a certain
portion of his income to some one nominated
by the donor.
Saddle sick: galled with riding,
having lost leather.


