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.


