Snout. A hogshead. Cant.
Snowball. A jeering appellation for a negro.
To snub. To check, or rebuke.
Snub devil. A parson.
Snub nose. A short nose turned up at the end.
SNUDGE. A thief who hides himself under a bed,
in Order
to rob the house.
Snuff. To take snuff; to be offended.
To snuffle. To speak through the nose.
SNUFFLES. A cold in the head, attended with a
running at
the nose.
Snug. All’s snug; all’s quiet.
To soak. To drink. An old soaker;
a drunkard, one that
moistens his clay to make it stick together.
Socket money. A whore’s fee,
or hire: also money paid
for a treat, by a married man caught in
an intrigue.
SOLDIER’S bottle. A large one.
SOLDIER’S MAWND. A pretended soldier, begging
with a
counterfeit wound, which he pretends to
have received at
some famous siege or battle.
SOLDIER’S pomatum. A piece of tallow candle.
Soldier. A red herring.
SOLFA. A parish clerk.
Solo player. A miserable performer
on any instrument,
who always plays alone, because no one
will stay in the
room to hear him.
Solomon. The mass. Cant.
Son of PRATTLEMENT. A lawyer.
Song. He changed his song; he altered his
account or
evidence. It was bought for an old
song, i.e. very cheap.
His morning and his evening song do not
agree; he tells a
different story.
SOOTERKIN. A joke upon the Dutch women, supposing
that, by their constant use of stoves,
which they place
under their petticoats, they breed a kind
of small animal in
their bodies, called a sooterkin, of the
size of a mouse,
which when mature slips out.
Sop. A bribe. A sop for Cerberus; a
bribe for a porter,
turnkey, or gaoler.
SOPH. (Cambridge) An undergraduate in his second year.
Sorrel. A yellowish red. Sorrel pate;
one having red
hair.
Sorrow shall be his sops.
He shall repent this. Sorrow
go by me; a common expletive used by presbyterians
in Ireland.
Sorry. Vile, mean, worthless. A sorry
fellow, or hussy;
a worthless man or woman.
Sot Weed. Tobacco.
Soul case. The body. He made a
hole in his soul
case; he wounded him.
Soul doctor, or driver. A parson.
SOUNDERS. A herd of swine.
Souse. Not a souse; not a penny. French.
Sow. A fat woman. He has got the wrong
sow by the ear,
he mistakes his man. Drunk as David’s
sow; see David’s
sow.


