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.

Chop.  A blow.  Boxing term.

To chop and change.  To exchange backwards and forwards. 
  To chop, in the canting sense, means making
  dispatch, or hurrying over any business:  ex.  The autem
  bawler will soon quit the hums, for he chops up the WHINERS;
  the parson will soon quit the pulpit, for he hurries over
  the prayers.  See autem bawler, hums, and WHINERS,

Chop churches.  Simoniacal dealers in livings, or other
  ecclesiastical preferments.

Chopping, lusty.  A chopping boy or girl; a lusty
  child.

Chops.  The mouth.  I gave him a wherrit, or a souse,
  across the chops; I gave him a blow over the mouth,
  See wherrit.

Chop-stick.  A fork.

CHOUDER.  A sea-dish, composed of fresh fish, salt pork,
  herbs, and sea-biscuits, laid in different layers, and stewed
  together.

To Chouse.  To cheat or trick:  he choused me out of it. 
  Chouse is also the term for a game like chuck-farthing.

Christ-cross row.  The alphabet in a horn-book:  called
  Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed,
  Christ’s cross prefixed before and after the twenty-four
  letters.

Christening.  Erasing the name of the true maker from
  a stolen watch, and engraving a fictitious one in its place.

Christian poney.  A chairman.

Christian.  A tradesman who has faith, i.e. will give credit.

Christmas compliments.  A cough, kibed heels, and a snotty nose.

Chub.  He is a young chub, or a mere chub; i.e. a foolish
  fellow, easily imposed on:  an illusion to a fish of that
  name, easily taken.

Chubby.  Round-faced, plump.

Chuck.  My chuck; a term of endearment.

Chuck farthing.  A parish clerk.

Chuckle-headed. Stupid, thick-headed.

Chuffy.  Round-faced, chubby.

Chum.  A chamber-fellow, particularly at the universities
  and in prison.

CHUMMAGE.  Money paid by the richer sort of prisoners
  in the Fleet and King’s Bench, to the poorer, for their
  share of a room.  When prisons are very full, which is
  too often the case, particularly on the eve of an insolvent
  act, two or three persons are obliged to sleep in a room.  A
  prisoner who can pay for being alone, chuses two poor
  chums, who for a stipulated price, called chummage,
  give up their share of the room, and sleep on the stairs,
  or, as the term is, ruff it.

Chunk.  Among printers, a journeyman who refuses to
  work for legal wages; the same as the flint among taylors. 
  See flint.

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