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.

Tormenter of sheep skin.  A drummer.

Tormenter of catgut.  A fiddler.

Tory.  An advocate for absolute monarchy and church
  power; also an Irish vagabond, robber, Or rapparee.

Toss pot.  A drunkard.

Toss off.  Manual pollution.

Totty-headed. Giddy, hare-brained.

Touch.  To touch; to get money from any one; also
  to arrest.  Touched in the wind; broken winded. 
  Touched in the head; insane, crazy.  To touch up a
  woman; to have carnal knowledge of her.  Touch bone
  and whistle; any one having broken wind backwards,
  according to the vulgar law, may be pinched by any of
  the company till he has touched bone (i.e. his teeth) and
  whistled.

Touch bun for luck.  See bun.

TOVT.  A look-out house, or eminence.

Touting. (From TUERI, to look about) Publicans
  fore-stalling guests, or meeting them on the road, and begging
  their custom; also thieves or smugglers looking out to see
  that the coast is clear.  Touting ken; the bar of a public
  house.

Tow row.  A grenadier.  The tow row club; a club or
  society of the grenadier officers of the line.

Towel.  An oaken towel, a cudgel.  To rub one down
  with an oaken towel; to beat or cudgel him.

Tower.  Clipped money:  they have been round the tower
  with it.  Cant.

To tower.  To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.

Tower hill play.  A slap on the face, and a kick on the
  breech.

Town.  A woman of the town; a prostitute.  To be on
  the town:  to live by prostitution.

Town bull.  A common whoremaster.  To roar like a
  town bull; to cry or bellow aloud.

To track.  To go.  Track up the dancers; go up stairs. 
  Cant.

Trading justices.  Broken mechanics, discharged footmen,
  and other low fellows, smuggled into the commission
  of the peace, who subsist by fomenting disputes, granting
  warrants, and otherwise retailing justice; to the honour
  of the present times, these nuisances are by no means, so
  common as formerly.

Tradesmen.  Thieves.  Clever tradesmen; good thieves.

Translators.  Sellers of old mended shoes and boots,
  between coblers and shoemakers.

To TRANSMOGRAPHY, or TRANSMIGRIFY.  To patch up
  vamp, or alter.

T0 transnear.  To come up with any body.

Tranter.  See Crocker.

Trap.  To understand trap; to know one’s own interest.

Trap sticks.  Thin legs, gambs:  from the sticks with
  which boys play at trap-ball.

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