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.

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.

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