Butt. A dependant, poor relation, or simpleton,
on whom
all kinds of practical jokes are played
off; and who serves
as a butt for all the shafts of wit and
ridicule.
Butter box. A Dutchman, from the great
quantity of
butter eaten by the people of that country.
Buttered bun. One lying with a woman
that has just lain
with another man, is said to have a buttered
bun.
Butter and eggs trot. A
kind of short jogg trot, such
as is used by women going to market, with
butter and
eggs.—he looks as if butter
would not melt in her mouth,
yet I warrant you cheese would not choak
her; a saying
of a demure looking woman, of suspected
character. Don’t
make butter dear; a gird at the patient
angler.
Buttock. A whore. Cant.
Buttock broker. A bawd, or match-maker. Cant.
Buttock ball. The amorous congress. Cant.
Buttock and file. A common whore
and a pick-pocket.
Cant.
Buttock and twang, or down buttock
and sham
file. A common whore, but no
pickpocket.
Buttock and tongue. A scolding wife.
BUTTOCKING shop. A brothel.
Button. A bad shilling, among coiners.
His a-se makes
buttons; he is ready to bewray himself
through fear. Cant.
BUZMAN. A pickpocket. Cant.
Buzzard. A simple fellow. A blind buzzard:
a
pur-blind man or woman.
Bye blow. A bastard.
Cabbage. Cloth, stuff, or silkpurloined
by laylors from
their employers, which they deposit in
a place called
hell, or their eye: from
the first, when taxed, with their
knavery, they equivocally swear, that
if they have taken
any, they wish they may find it in hell;
or, alluding to the
second, protest, that what they have over
and above is
not more than they could put in their
eye.—When the scrotum
is relaxed or whiffled, it is said they
will not cabbage.
Cab. A brothel. Mother: how many
tails have you in
your cab? how many girls have you in your
bawdy house?
CACAFEOGO. A sh-te-fire, a furious braggadocio
or bully
huff.
Cackle. To blab, or discover secrets.
The cull is leaky,
and cackles; the rogue tells all.
Cant. See leaky.
Cackler. A hen.
CACKLER’S ken. A hen roost. Cant.
Cackling cheats. Fowls. Cant.
Cackling farts. Eggs. Cant.
CADDEE. A helper. An under-strapper.
Cadge. To beg. Cadge the swells; beg of the gentlemen.


