1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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.

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