DEUSEA Ville. The country. Cant.
DEUSEA Ville Stampers. Country carriers. Cant.
Dew beaters. Feet. Cant.
Dews Wins, or DEUX Wins. Two-pence. Cant.
DEWITTED. Torn to pieces by a mob, as that great statesman
John de Wit was in Holland, anno 1672.
Dial plate. The face. To alter
his dial plate; to
disfigure his face.
Dice. The names of false dice:
A bale of bard cinque deuces
A bale of flat cinque deuces
A bale of flat sice aces
A bale of bard cater traes
A bale of flat cater traes
A bale of fulhams
A bale of light graniers
A bale of langrets contrary to the ventage
A bale of gordes, with as many highmen
as lowmen,
for passage
A bale of demies
A bale of long dice for even and odd
A bale of bristles
A bale of direct contraries.
Dick. That happened in the reign of queen
Dick, i. e.
never: said of any absurd old story.
I am as queer as
Dick’s hatband; that is, out of
spirits, or don’t know what
ails me.
Dicky. A woman’s under-petticoat.
It’s all Dicky with
him; i.e. it’s all over with
him.
DICKED in the nob. Silly. Crazed.
Dickey. A sham shirt.
Dickey. An ass. Roll your dickey; drive
your ass. Also
a seat for servants to sit behind a carriage,
when their
master drives.
To Diddle. To cheat. To defraud.
The cull diddled
me out of my dearee; the fellow robbed
me of my sweetheart.
See Jeremy Diddler In Raising The Wind.
DIDDEYS. A woman’s breasts or bubbies.
Diddle. Gin.
Diggers. Spurs. Cant.
DILBERRIES. Small pieces of excrement adhering
to the
hairs near the fundament.
DILBERRY maker. The fundament.
Dildo. [From the Italian DILETTO, q. d. a woman’s
delight;
or from our word Dally, q. d. a thing
to play withal.]
Penis-succedaneus, called in Lombardy
Passo Tempo. Bailey.
Diligent. Double diligent, like the Devil’s
apothecary;
said of one affectedly diligent.
Dilly. (An abbreviation of the word diligence.)
A public
voiture or stage, commonly a post chaise,
carrying
three persons; the name is taken from
the public stage
vehicles in France and Flanders.
The dillies first began
to run in England about the year 1779.
Dimber. Pretty. A dimber cove; a pretty
fellow. Dimber
mort; a pretty wench. Cant.
Dimber damber. A top man, or prince,
among the canting
crew: also the chief rogue of the
gang, or the completest
cheat. Cant.


