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.

SCROBY.  To be tipt the scroby; to be whipt before the
  justices.

SCROPE.  A farthing.  Cant.

Scrub.  A low mean fellow, employed in all sorts of dirty
  work.

SCRUBBADO.  The itch.

Scull.  A head of a house, or master of a college, at the
  universities.

Scull, or sculler.  A boat rowed by one man with a
  light kind of oar, called a scull; also a one-horse chaise
  or buggy.

Scull thatcher.  A peruke-maker.

Scum.  The riff-raff, tag-rag, and bob-tail, or lowest order
  of people.

Scut.  The tail of a hare or rabbit; also that of a woman.

Scuttle.  To scuttle off; to run away.  To scuttle a
  ship; to make a hole in her bottom in order to sink her.

Sea crab.  A sailor.

Sea lawyer.  A shark.

Sealer, or squeeze wax.  One ready to give bond and
  judgment for goods or money.

Secret.  He has been let into the secret:  he has been
  cheated at gaming or horse-racing.  He or she is in the
  grand secret, i.e. dead.

Seedy.  Poor, pennyless, stiver-cramped, exhausted.

Sees.  The eyes.  See daylights.

Served. Found guilty.  Convicted.  Ordered to be
  punished or transported.  To serve a cull out; to beat a
  man soundly.

Seraglio.  A bawdy-house; the name of that part of the
  Great Turk’s palace where the women are kept.

Send.  To drive or break in.  Hand down the Jemmy and
  send it in; apply the crow to the door, and drive it in.

Set.  A dead set:  a concerted scheme to defraud a person
  by gaming.

Setter.  A bailiff’s follower, who, like a setting dog
  follows and points the game for his master.  Also
  sometimes an exciseman.

To settle.  To knock down or stun any one.  We settled
  the cull by a stroke on his nob; we stunned the fellow
  by a blow on the head.

Seven-sided animal.  A one-eyed man or woman, each
  having a right side and a left side, a fore side and a back
  side, an outside, an inside, and a blind side.

SHABBAROON.  An ill-dressed shabby fellow; also a mean-
  spirited person.

Shaftsbury.  A gallon pot full of wine, with a cock.

To shag.  To copulate.  He is but bad shag; he is no able
  woman’s man.

Shag-bag, or shake-bag.  A poor sneaking fellow; a man
  of no spirit:  a term borrowed from the cock-pit.

Shake.  To shake one’s elbow; to game with dice.  To
  shake a cloth in the wind; to be hanged in chains.

Shake.  To draw any thing from the pocket.  He shook
  the swell of his fogle; he robbed the gentleman of his silk
  handkerchief.

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