Born under A threepenny halfpenny Planet, never to be worth A
groat. 
  Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or
  profession.

Botch.  A nick name for a taylor.

Bothered or both-eared. Talked to at both ears by different
  persons at the same time, confounded, confused.  Irish
  phrase.

BOTHERAMS. A convivial society.

Bottle-headed. Void of wit.

Bottom.  A polite term for the posteriors.  Also, in the
  sporting sense, strength and spirits to support fatigue; as
  a bottomed horse.  Among bruisers it is used to express
  a hardy fellow, who will bear a good beating.

Bottomless pit.  The monosyllable.

Boughs.  Wide in the boughs; with large hips and posteriors.

Boughs.  He is up in the boughs; he is in a passion.

To bounce.  To brag or hector; also to tell an improbable
  story.  To bully a man out of any thing.  The kiddey
  bounced the swell of the blowen; the lad bullied the
  gentleman out of the girl.

Bouncer.  A large man or woman; also a great lie.

Bouncing cheat.  A bottle; from the explosion in
  drawing the cork.  Cant.

BOUNG.  A purse.  Cant.

BOUNG nipper.  A cut purse.  Cant.—­Formerly purses
  were worn at the girdle, from whence they were cut.

Boose, or Bouse.  Drink.

BOOSEY.  Drunk.

BOWSING ken.  An ale-house or gin-shop.

Bowsprit.  The nose, from its being the most projecting
  part of the human face, as the bowsprit is of a ship.

Bow-wow.  The childish name for a dog; also a jeering
  appellation for a man born at Boston in America.

Bow-wow mutton.  Dog’s flesh.

Bow-wow shop.  A salesman’s shop in Monmouth-street;
  so called because the servant barks, and the master bites. 
  See barker.

Bowyer.  One that draws a long bow, a dealer in the marvellous,
  a teller of improbable stories, a liar:  perhaps from
  the wonderful shots frequently boasted of by archers.

To box the compass.  To say or repeat the mariner’s
  compass, not only backwards or forwards, but also to
  be able to answer any and all questions respecting its
  divisions.  Sea term.

To box the Jesuit, and get cock Roaches.  A sea
  term for masturbation; a crime, it is said, much practised
  by the reverend fathers of that society.