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.

Glib.  Smooth, slippery.  Glib tongued; talkative.

Glim.  A candle, or dark lantern, used in housebreaking;
  also fire.  To glim; to burn in the hand.  Cant.

GLIMFENDERS.  Andirons.  Cant.

GLIMFLASHY.  Angry, or in a passion.  Cant.

Glim jack.  A link-boy.  Cant.

Glimmer.  Fire.  Cant.

GLIMMERERS.  Persons begging with sham licences,
  pretending losses by fire.

GLIMMS. Eyes.

GLIMSTICK.  A candlestick.  Cant.

Globe.  Pewter.  Cant.

Gloves.  To give any one a pair of gloves; to make them
  a present or bribe.  To win a pair of gloves; to kiss a man
  whilst he sleeps:  for this a pair of gloves is due to any lady
  who will thus earn them.

GLUEPOT.  A parson:  from joining men and women together
  in matrimony.

Glum.  Sullen.

Glutton.  A term used by bruisers to signify a man who
  will bear a great deal of beating.

GNARLER.  A little dog that by his barking alarms the
  family when any person is breaking into the house.

Go, the.  The dash.  The mode.  He is quite the go, he
  is quite varment, he is prime, he is bang up, are
  synonimous expressions.

GLYBE.  A writing.  Cant.

Go between.  A pimp or bawd.

Go by the ground.  A little short person, man or woman.

Go shop.  The Queen’s Head in Duke’s court, Bow street,
  Covent Garden; frequented by the under players:  where
  gin and water was sold in three-halfpenny bowls, called
  Goes; the gin was called Arrack.  The go, the fashion;
  as, large hats are all the go.

Goads.  Those who wheedle in chapmen for horse-dealers.

Goat.  A lascivious person.  Goats jigg; making the beast
  with two backs, copulation.

Gob.  The mouth; also a bit or morsel:  whence gobbets. 
  Gift of the gob; wide-mouthed, or one who speaks fluently,
  or sings well.

Gob string.  A bridle.

Gobbler.  A turkey cock.

Godfather.  He who pays the reckoning, or answers for
  the rest of thecompany:  as, Will you stand godfather, and
  we will take care of the brat; i.e. repay you another
  time.  Jurymen are also called godfathers, because they
  name the crime the prisoner before them has been guilty
  of, whether felony, petit larceny, &c.

Gog.  All-a-gog; impatient, anxious, or desirous of a thing.

Gog and Magog.  Two giants, whose effigies stand on
  each side of the clock in Guildhall, London; of whom
  there is a tradition, that, when they hear the clock strike
  one, on the first of April, they will walk down from their
  places.

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