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.

Steamer.  A pipe.  A swell steamer; a long pipe, such
  as is used by gentlemen to smoke.

Steel.  The house of correction.

Steel bar.  A needle.  A steel bar flinger; a taylor, stay-
  maker, or any other person using a needle.

Steenkirk.  A muslin neckcloth carelessly put on, from
  the manner in which the French officers wore their cravats
  when they returned from the battle of Steenkirk.

Steeple house.  A name given to the church by Dissenters.

Stephen.  Money.  Stephen’s at home; i.e. has money.

Stepney.  A decoction of raisins of the sun and lemons in
  conduit water, sweetened with sugar, and bottled up.

Stewed quaker.  Burnt rum, with a piece of butter:  an
  American remedy for a cold.

Sticks.  Household furniture.

Sticks.  Pops or pistols.  Stow your sticks; hide your
  pistols.  Cant.  See pops.

Stick flams. A pair of gloves.

Stiff-RUMPED. Proud, stately.

STINGRUM.  A niggard.

Stingo.  Strong beer, or other liquor.

Stirrup cup.  A parting cup or glass, drank on horseback
  by the person taking leave.

Stitch.  A nick name for a taylor:  also a term for lying
  with a woman.

STITCHBACK.  Strong ale.

Stiver-cramped. Needy, wanting money.  A stiver is a
  Dutch coin, worth somewhat more than a penny sterling.

Stock.  A good stock; i.e. of impudence.  Stock and
  block; the whole:  he has lost stock and block.

Stock drawers.  Stockings.

Stock jobbers.  Persons who gamble in Exchange Alley,
  by pretending to buy and sell the public funds, but in
  reality only betting that they will be at a certain price, at
  a particular time; possessing neither the stock pretended
  to be sold, nor money sufficient to make good the payments
  for which they contract:  these gentlemen are known
  under the different appellations of bulls, bears, and lame
  ducks.

Stomach worm.  The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry.

Stone.  Two stone under weight, or wanting; an eunuch. 
  Stone doublet; a prison.  Stone dead; dead as a stone.

Stone jug.  Newgate, or any other prison.

Stone tavern.  Ditto.

Stoop-NAPPERS, or overseers of the new pavement
  Persons set in the pillory.  Cant.

Stoop.  The pillory.  The cull was served for macing and
  napp’d the stoop; he was convicted of swindling, and
  put in the pillory.

Stop hole Abbey.  The nick name of the chief rendzvous
  of the canting crew of beggars, gypsies, cheats,
  thieves, &c. &c.

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