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.

Cold burning.  A punishment inflicted by private soldiers
  on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of their
  mess laws; it is administered in the following manner: 
  The prisoner is set against the wall, with the arm which is
  to be burned tied as high above his head as possible.  The
  executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of
  cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent,
  patting him, and leading the water gently down his
  body, till it runs out at his breeches knees:  this is repeated
  to the other arm, if he is sentenced to be burned in both.

Cold cook.  An undertaker of funerals, or carrion hunter. 
  See carrion hunter.

Cold iron.  A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or
  stabbing.  I gave him two inches of cold iron into his beef.

Cold meat.  A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man’s
  house.

Cold pig.  To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on
  sluggards who lie too long in bed:  it consists in pulling off
  all the bed clothes from them, and throwing cold water
  upon them.

Cold pudding.  This is said to settle one’s love.

Cole.  Money.  Post the cole:  pay down the money.

COLIANDER, or coriander Seeds.  Money.

Collar day.  Execution day.

College.  Newgate or any other prison.  New College: 
  the Royal Exchange.  King’s College:  the King’s Bench
  prison.  He has been educated at the steel, and took his
  last degree at college; he has received his education at
  the house of correction, and was hanged at Newgate.

College cove.  The College cove has numbered him, and if he
  is knocked down he’ll be twisted; the turnkey of Newgate
  has told the judge how many times the prisoner has been
  tried before and therefore if he is found guilty, he certainly
  will be hanged.  It is said to be the custom of the Old Bailey
  for one of the turnkeys of Newgate to give information to
  the judge how many times an old offender has been tried,
  by holding up as many fingers as the number of times the
  prisoner has been before arraigned at that bar.

COLLEGIATES.  Prisoners of the one, and shopkeepers of
  the other of those places.

Collector.  A highwayman.

To collogue.  To wheedle or coax.

Cook ruffian, who roasted the devil in his feathers.  A
  bad cook.

Cool Crape.  A shroud.

Cooler.  A woman.

Cooler.  The backside.  Kiss my cooler.  Kiss my a-se. 
  It is principally used to signify a woman’s posteriors.

Cool lady.  A female follower of the camp, who sells
  brandy.

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