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.

Ding.  To knock down.  To ding it in one’s ears; to
  reproach or tell one something one is not desirous of hearing. 
  Also to throw away or hide:  thus a highwayman who
  throws away or hides any thing with which he robbed, to
  prevent being known or detected, is, in the canting lingo,
  styled a Dinger.

Ding boy.  A rogue, a hector, a bully, or sharper.  Cant.

Ding Dong.  Helter skelter, in a hasty disorderly manner.

DINGEY christian.  A mulatto; or any one who has, as the
  West-Indian term is, a lick of the tar-brush, that is, some
  negro blood in him.

Dining room post. A mode of stealing in houses that
  let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who
  send up sham letters to the lodgers, and, whilst waiting
  in the entry for the postage, go into the first room they see
  open, and rob it.

Dip.  To dip for a wig.  Formerly, in Middle Row, Holborn,
  wigs of different sorts were, it is said, put into a
  close-stool box, into which, for three-pence, any one
  might dip, or thrust in his hand, and take out the first
  wig he laid hold of; if he was dissatisfied with his prize,
  he might, on paying three halfpence, return it and dip
  again.

The dip.  A cook’s shop, under Furnival’s Inn, where many
  attornies clerks, and other inferior limbs of the law, take
  out the wrinkles from their bellies.  Dip is also a punning
  name for a tallow-chandler.

Dippers.  Anabaptists.

DIPT.  Pawned or mortgaged.

Dirty puzzle.  A nasty slut.

Disguised. Drunk.

Disgruntled. Offended, disobliged.

Dished up.  He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined. 
  To throw a thing in one’s dish; to reproach or twit one with
  any particular matter.

DISHCLOUT.  A dirty, greasy woman.  He has made a napkin
  of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his
  cook maid.  To pin a dishclout to a man’s tail; a punishment
  often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen,
  to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that
  place.

Dismal Ditty.  The psalm sung by the felons at the gallows,
  just before they are turned off.

Dispatches.  A mittimus, or justice of the peace’s warrant,
  for the commitment of a rogue.

Ditto.  A suit of ditto; coat, waistcoat, and breeches, all
  of one colour.

Dispatchers.  Loaded or false dice.

Distracted division.  Husband and wife fighting.

Dive.  To dive; to pick a pocket.  To dive for a dinner;
  to go down into a cellar to dinner.  A dive, is a thief who
  stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little
  boy put in at a window.  Cant.

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