SOW’S baby. A sucking pig.
Sow child. A female child.
SPADO. A sword. Spanish.
Spangle. A seven shilling piece.
Spank. (Whip) To run neatly along, beteeen
a trot and
gallop. The tits spanked it to town;
the horses went
merrily along all the way to town.
Spanish. The spanish; ready money.
Spanish coin. Fair words and compliments.
Spanish faggot. The sun.
Spanish gout. The pox.
Spanish padlock. A kind of girdle contrived
by jealous
husbands of that nation, to secure the
chastity of their
wives.
Spanish, or king of Spain’s
trumpeter. An ass
when braying.
Spanish worm. A nail: so called
by carpenters when they
meet with one in a board they are sawing.
Spanks, or SPANKERS. Money; also blows with
the open
hand.
Spanking. Large.
Spark. A spruce, trim, or smart fellow.
A man that is
always thirsty, is said to have a spark
in his throat.
Sparkish. Fine, gay.
Sparking blows. Blows given by cocks
before they close,
or, as the term is, mouth it: used
figuratively for words
previous to a quarrel.
Sparrow. Mumbling a sparrow; a cruel sport
frequently
practised at wakes and fairs: for
a small premium, a booby
having his hands tied behind him, has
the wing of a cock
sparrow put into his mouth: with
this hold, without any
other assistance than the motion of his
lips, he is to get the
sparrow’s head into his mouth:
on attempting to do it, the
bird defends itself surprisingly, frequently
pecking the
mumbler till his lips are covered with
blood, and he is
obliged to desist: to prevent the
bird from getting away, he
is fastened by a string to a button of
the booby’s coat.
Sparrow-mouthed. Wide-mouthed, like the
mouth of a
sparrow: it is said of such persons,
that they do not hold
their mouths by lease, but have it from
year to year; i.e.
from ear to ear. One whose mouth
cannot be enlarged
without removing their ears, and who when
they yawn
have their heads half off.
SPATCH cock. [Abbreviation of dispatch cock.]
A hen just
killed from the roost, or yard, and immediately
skinned,
split, and broiled: an Irish dish
upon any sudden occasion.
To speak with. To rob. I
spoke with the cull on the
cherry-coloured prancer; I robbed the
man on the black
horse. Cant.
Speak. Any thing stolen. He has made
a good speak; he
has stolen something considerable.


