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.

Stum.  The flower of fermenting wine, used by vintners to
  adulterate their wines.

Stumps.  Legs.  To stir one’s stumps; to walk fast.

Sturdy beggars.  The fifth and last of the most ancient
  order of canters, beggars that rather demand than ask
  cant.

Successfully.  Used by the vulgar for successively:  as
  three or four landlords of this house have been ruined
  successfully by the number of soldiers quartered on them. 
  Irish.

Such A reason PIST my goose, or my goose PIST. Said
  when any one offers an absurd reason.

Suck.  Strong liquor of any sort.  To suck the monkey;
  see monkey.  Sucky; drunk.

To suck.  To pump.  To draw from a man all be knows. 
  The file sucked the noodle’s brains:  the deep one drew
  out of the fool all he knew.

Sucking chicken.  A young chicken.

Suds.  In the suds; in trouble, in a disagreeable situation,
  or involved in some difficulty.

Sugar stick.  The virile member.

Sugar sops.  Toasted bread soked in ale, sweetened with
  sugar, and grated nutmeg:  it is eaten with cheese.

Sulky.  A one-horse chaise or carriage, capable of holding
  but one person:  called by the French a DESOBLIGEANT.

Sun.  To have been in the sun; said of one that is drunk.

Sunburnt.  Clapped; also haying many male children.

Sunday man.  One who goes abroad on that day only, for
  fear of arrests.

Sunny bank.  A good fire in winter.

Sunshine.  Prosperity.

SUPERNACOLUM.  Good liquor, of which there is not even
  a drop left sufficient to wet one’s nail.

SUPOUCH.  A landlady of an inn, or hostess.

Surveyor of the highways.  One reeling drunk.

Surveyor of the pavement.  One standing in the pillory.

Sus per Coll.  Hanged:  persons who have been hanged
  are thus entered into the jailor’s books.

SUSPENCE.  One in a deadly suspence; a man just turned
  off at the gallows.

SUTRER.  A camp publican:  also one that pilfers gloves,
  tobacco boxes, and such small moveables.

SWABBERS.  The ace of hearts, knave of clubs, ace and
  duce of trumps, at whist:  also the lubberly seamen, put
  to swab, and clean the ship.

SWAD, or SWADKIN.  A soldier.  Cant.

To swaddle.  To beat with a stick.

Swaddlers.  The tenth order of the canting tribe, who not
  only rob, but beat, and often murder passenges.  Cant
  Swaddlers is also the Irish name for methodist.

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