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.

Scotch warming pan.  A wench; also a fart.

Scoundrel.  A man void of every principle of honour.

Scour.  To scour or score off; to run away:  perhaps from
  score; i.e. full speed, or as fast as legs would carry one. 
  Also to wear:  chiefly applied to irons, fetters, or
  handcuffs, because wearing scours them.  He will scour the
  darbies; he will be in fetters.  To scour the cramp ring;
  to wear bolts or fetters, from which, as well as from
  coffin hinges, rings supposed to prevent the cramp are
  made.

SCOURERS.  Riotous bucks, who amuse themselves with
  breaking windows, beating the watch, and assaulting
  every person they meet:  called scouring the streets.

Scout.  A college errand-boy at Oxford, called a gyp at
  Cambridge.  Also a watchman or a watch.  Cant.

SCRAGGED. Hanged.

Scraggy.  Lean, bony.

SCRAGG’EM fair.  A public execution.

Scrap.  A villainous scheme or plan.  He whiddles the
  whole scrap; he discovers the whole plan or scheme.

Scrape.  To get into a scrape; to be involved in a
  disagreeable business.

Scraper.  A fiddler; also one who scrapes plates for
  mezzotinto prints.

Scraping.  A mode of expressing dislike to a person, or
  sermon, practised at Oxford by the students, in scraping
  their feet against the ground during the preachment;
  frequently done to testify their disapprobation of a proctor
  who has been, as they think, too rigorous.

Scratch.  Old Scratch; the Devil:  probably from the
  long and sharp claws with which he is frequently
  delineated.

Scratch land.  Scotland.

Scratch Platter, or taylor’s ragout.  Bread sopt in
  the oil and vinegar in which cucumbers have been sliced.

Screen.  A bank note.  Queer screens; forged bank notes. 
  The cove was twisted for smashing queer screens; the
  fellow was hanged for uttering forged bank notes.

Screw.  A skeleton key used by housebreakers to open a
  lock.  To stand on the screw signifies that a door is not
  bolted, but merely locked.

To screw.  To copulate.  A female screw; a common
  prostitute.  To screw one up; to exact upon one in a
  bargain or reckoning.

Screw jaws.  A wry-mouthed man or woman.

Scrip.  A scrap or slip of paper.  The cully freely blotted
  the scrip, and tipt me forty hogs; the man freely signed
  the bond, and gave me forty shillings.—­Scrip is also a
  Change Alley phrase for the last loan or subscription. 
  What does scrip go at for the next rescounters? what
  does scrip sell for delivered at the next day of settling?

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