Smuggling ken. A bawdy-house.
To SMUSH. To snatch, or seize suddenly.
Smut. Bawdy. Smutty story; an indecent story.
Smut. A copper. A grate. Old iron.
The cove was lagged
for a smut: the fellow was transported
for stealing a
copper.
Snack. A share. To go snacks; to be partners.
To SNABBLE. To rifle or plunder; also to kill.
Snaffler. A highwayman. Snaffler of
prances; a horse
stealer.
To snaffle. To steal. To snaffle
any ones poll; to
steal his wig.
SNAGGS. Large teeth; also snails.
SNAKESMAN. See little SNAKESMAN.
Snap dragon. A Christmas gambol:
raisins and almonds
being put into a bowl of brandy, and the
candles
extinguished, the spirit is set on fire,
and the company
scramble for the raisins.
To snap the glaze. To break
shop windows or show
glasses.
Snappers. Pistols.
SNAPT. Taken, caught.
Snatch cly. A thief who snatches women’s pockets.
Sneak. A pilferer. Morning sneak; one
who pilfers early
in the morning, before it is light.
Evening sneak; an
evening pilferer. Upright sneak:
one who steals pewter
pots from the alehouse boys employed to
collect them.
To go upon the sneak; to steal into houses
whose doors
are carelessly left open. Cant.
Sneaker. A small bowl.
Sneaking budge. One that robs alone.
SNEAKSBY. A mean-spirited fellow, a sneaking cur.
Sneering. Jeering, flickering, laughing in scorn.
Snicker. A glandered horse.
To snicker, or snigger. To laugh
privately, or in one’s
sleeve.
To SNILCH. To eye, or look at any thing
attentively: the
cull snilches. Cant.
Snip. A taylor.
Snitch. To turn snitch, or snitcher; to turn informer.
To Snite. To wipe, or slap. Snite
his snitch; wipe his
nose, i.e. give him a good knock.
To snivel. To cry, to throw the snot
or snivel about.
Snivelling; crying. A snivelling
fellow; one that whines
or complains.
To SNOACH. To speak through the nose, to snuffle.
Snob. A nick name for a shoemaker.
To snooze, or SNOODGE. To sleep.
To snooze with a
mort; to sleep with a wench. Cant.
Snoozing ken. A brothel. The swell
was spiced in a
snoozing ken of his screens; the gentleman
was robbed of
his bank notes in a brothel.
Snow. Linen hung out to dry or bleach.
Spice the snow;
to steal the linen.


