CACKLE
to discover. The Cull Cackles, The Rogue tells all.
to discover. The Cull Cackles, The Rogue tells all.
Chickens, Cocks or Hens.
Eggs.
a Cloak or Gown.
a Woman without any Substance.
a Shirt or Shift.
in a Canting Sense, the ragged, tatter'd, patch'd Coat, worn by Beggars and Gypsies, in order to move Compassion.
a little arch or knavish Boy; a Rogue or Whore taken, and clapp'd into the Cage or Round-house.
a good Stick or Cudgel, well-favouredly laid on a Man's shoulders.
Dumb. The Cull's Cank; the Rogue's Dumb; a Term used by Canters, when one of their Fraternity, being apprehended, upon Examination, confesses nothing.
the Plague.
an Hypocrite, a Dissembler, a double-tongu'd, whining Person.
the mysterious Language of Rogues, Gypsies, Beggars, Thieves, &c.
Beggars, Gypsies.
to Swear. I will Cap downright, I will Swear home.
a fighting, blustering Bully.
a Fellow in poor Cloaths, or Shabby.
a great Cheat; also a huffing, yet sneaking, cowardly Bully.
a Leader of the Mob; also the Mob itself.
a good round Sum of Money about a Man; also him that is cheated of it.
a Set or Rogues, who are employ'd to look out, and whatch upon the Roads, at Inns, &c. in order to carry Information to their respective Gangs, of a Booty in Prospect.
whipp'd publickly, and pack'd out of Town.
a House, Shop, or Warehouse; also a Bawdy-house. As Toute the Case, view, mark, or eye the House or Shop. 'Tis all Bob; now let us dub the Gigg of the Case; now the Coast is clear, let us fall on, and break open the door of the House.
a Whore that plie in a Bawdy-house.
or Cassan, cheese.
a Cloak.
a common Whore or Prostitute. Who shall hang the bell about the Cat's Neck? Who shall begin the Attack first? said of a desperate Undertaking.
a Foot-boy.
a precarious Time for Robbery; when many People are out upon the Road, by means of any adjacent Fair, Horse-race, &c.
a Serjeant, or Bayliff, that arrests People.
when People in Company drink cross, and not round about from the Right to the Left, or according to the Sun's Motion.
drawing a Fellow thro' a Pond with a Cat. Also whoring.
when a Rook or Cully is engag'd amongst bad Bowlers.
a Bawdy-house.
Left-handed.
awkward, not dextrous, ready or nimble.
well beaten or bang'd.
dry or thirsty.
Burnt in the Hand; as, They have pawn'd the Character upon him; i.e. They have burnt the Rogue in the Hand.
the Gallows.
Lice. To Squeeze the Chatts; To crack or kill those Vermin.
a feeble little Creature, of mean Spirit.
Money, so call'd because it chinks in the Pocket.
a Child. As, A Chip of the old Block; A Son that is his Father's likeness.
very pleasant over a Glass of good Liquor.
a Dandyprat, or Durgen, a little trifling-Fellow.
a little puny Child.
a Kinfe, File or Saw.
To saw asunder his Irons or Fetters.
to change or barter. Also a Job, or Booty, as A Chop by Chance, a rare Booty, when 'twas not expected.
is also used to make Dispatch, to slubber over in Post-haste, as The Autem-Bawler, will soon quit the Hums, for he chops up the Whiners; i.e. The Parson will soon have dispatch'd the Congregation, for he huddles over the Prayers.
to cheat or trick.
He is a young Chub, or a meer Chub, very ignorant or unexperienc'd in Gaming, not at all acquainted with Sharping. A good Chub, said by the Butchers, when they have bit a silly raw Customer.
a Parish Clerk.
a Woman's Tongue.
a Family, Tribe, Faction, or Party, in Scotland chiefly, but now any where else.
a Silver-tankard.
a swinging Lye.
a Silver-tankard Stealer. See Rumbubber.
a Beggar born and bred.
lustily lash'd. Also swingingly pox'd or clap'd.
very Drunk. The Cull is clear, let's Bite him. The Fellow is very drunk, let's Sharp him.
as, One that will cleave; used of a Wanton Woman. Vide Clown
a Pun or Quibble.
to nick a Business by timing it; as The Cull has clench'd the Job at a Pinch. The Rogue has nick'd the Time, before any Passengers came by, who might have rescu'd the plunder'd Person.
Sores without Pain, raised on Beggars Bodies, by their own Artifice and Cunning, (to move Charity) by bruising Crows-foot, Spearwort, and Salt together, and clapping them onthe Place, which frets the Skin; then with a Linnen Rag, which sticks close to it, they tear off the Skin, and strew on it a little Powder'd rsnick, which makes it look angrily or ill-favouredly, as if it were a real Sore.
sooth'd, sunn'd imposed on; The Cull will not be Clerk'd, i.e. He will not be caught or taken by fair Words.
to Snatch. I have Clickt the Nab from the Cull; I whipt the Hat from the Man's Head. Click the rum Topping. Snatch that Woman's fine Commode, or Head-Dress.
[among the Canters.] He whom they intrust to divide their Spoils, and proportion to every one his Share.
Copulation of Foxes, and thence used in a Canting Sense, for that of Men and Women; as The Cull and the Mort are at Clicket in the Dyke.
the Act of Fruition.
a crafty Fellow.
the Irons Felons wear in Goals.
Villains who lurk in by and dark Places, to snatch them off the Wearer's Shoulders.
a Ploughman.
Tobacco. Will you raise a Cloud? Will you smoak a Pipe?
used of a young Woman who passes for a Maid, and is not one.
a Handkerchief.
to Steal. Cloy the Clout; steal the Money.
Thieves, Robbers, Rogues.
Stealing, Thieving, Robbing.
Rogues.
a Wench's Propension to Male-Conversation, by her romping and playfulness; when they say, The Mort Clucks.
a Heap or Lump.
Lumpish.
a clumsy Clown, an awkward or unhandy Fellow.
Money. To cly the Jerk, to be Whipt. Let's strike his Cly; Let's get his Money from him. Also a Pocket, as, Filed a Cly, Pick'd a Pocket.
as, A Fore-Coach-Wheel Half a Crown. A Hind-Coach-Wheel, a Crown or Five-shilling Piece.
an Irish Dollar.
a Turkey. A rum Cobble-colter, a fat large Cock-Turkey.
a Man who follows that base Employment, of procuring; a Pimp.
wanton, uppish, forward.
a supposed Husband to a Bawd.
a soft easy Fellow.
very sure.
a good Sum of Money; also a Fool. A meer Cod, a silly, shallow Fellow. A rum Cod; a good round Sum of Money. An honest Cod; a trusty Friend.
a Fool.
as COVE. Which See.
to cheat at Dice. To Cog a Die; to conceal or secure a Die; also the Money or whatever the Sweetners drop, to draw in the Bubbles: Also to wheedle.
to wheedle one out of a Dinner.
Beg an Handkerchief, or Snuff box.
of brandy, a small Cup or Dram.
a Lye. Rum Coker, a whisking Lye.
Brandy. A couple of cold Words, a Curtain-Lecture. Cold Iron, a derisory Periphrasis for a Sword.
Money.
Newgate; New College, the Royal-Exchange.
the Prisoners of the one, and the Shop-keepers of the other of those Places.
wheedle.
a Man's Neck; as, His Colquarron is just about to be twisted. He is just going to be turn'd off.
an Inn-keeper that lends a Horse to a Highway-man, or to Gentleman Beggars; also a Lad newly initiated into Roguery.
laid short of the Jack, by a [COLT-BOWLER]
a raw or unexperienced Person.
to lend. Has he come it? Has he lent it to you?
such as are free of their Flesh; also breeding Women.
a shirt.
or rather Covent-Garden-Gout, the Foul Disease.
a Wife.
conterfeit, feigned.
I beat him to his Heart's Content; till he had enough of Fighting. Also to murder a Person, who resists being robb'd. The Cull's Content; i.e. He is past complaining.
a fruitless Attempt, or at an unseasonable Time.
a Mistress; also a Whore.
a Wife; also a Mistress.
Whims, Maggots, and such like.
a silly Fellow; A meer Cony, very silly indeed.
an Undertaker of Funerals.
the Devil of a Cook; or a very bad one.
When a Person dies, he is said to be put into his Cool-crape.
a Woman.
a Wench that sells Brandy (in Camps) a Suttler.
Brandy.
a very impudent, harden'd, brazen-faced Fellow.
the Head. I'll give ye a Knock on the Costard; I'll hit ye a Blow on the Pate.
They don't cotton; They don't agree well.
to lie down, as To Couch a Hogshead; To go to Bed.
a Man, a Fellow; also a Rogue. The Cove was Bit; The Rogue was out-sharped or out-witted. The Cove has bit the Cole; The Rogue has stollen the Money. That Cove's a rum Diver; That Fellow is a clever Pick-pocket.
a well-fill'd Bawdy-house.
a genteel Cheat, a Sham or Impostor, appearing in divers Shapes: one who sometimes counterfeits Mens hands, or forges Writings; at others personates other Men: is sometimes a Clipper or Coiner; at others a Dealer in Counterfeit Jewels. Sometimes a strowling Mountebank: To Day he is a Clergyman in Distress; to Morrow a reduced Gentleman.
a gay, fluttering Fellow.
fair Speeches without Performance.
State-Policy &c.
a Calf.
a Whore.
is also used to break open; as, To Crack up a Door; To break a Door open.
the Backside; also Crust.
boasting, vapouring.
whorish.
Hedges; as, The Cull thought to have lop'd, by breaking thro' the Crackmans; but we fetch'd him back by a Nope on the Costard, which made him silent; i.e. The Gentleman thought to escape by breaking through the Hedges; but we brought him back by a great Blow on the Head, which laid him for Dead.
a Neck; also the Stomach, or Womb.
Bolts or Shackles.
Sentence of Death passed upon a Criminal by the Judge: as, He has just undergone the Cramp-Word; i.e. Sentence is just passed upon him.
brisk, pert.
Money. Nim the Crap; Steal the Money. Wheedle for Crap; To coax Money out of any Body.
to Kill. Crash the Cull, i.e. Kill the Fellow.
Teeth.
Men raised by others, and their Tools ever after.
to slip or slide any Thing into another's Hand.
a Knot or Gang; as, A Crew of Rogues, &c.
as, To play Crimp, to lay or bet on one Side, and (by foul Play) to let the other win, having a Share of the Purchase.
to run a Race or Horse-match foully or knavishly.
He plays booty. A crimping Fellow, a sneaking Cur.
the foul Disease.
Fore-stallers, Regraters; otherwise called Kidders and Tranters.
a Groat or Fourpence. The Cull tipt me a Croker, the Fellow gave me a Groat.
a Comerade [in a Canting Sense.] Two or Three Rogues, who agree to beg or rob in Partnership, call one another Crony; as, Such a one is my Crony; as much as to say, He and I go Snacks.
Money.
the Tail, as, The Croppin of the Rotan, The Tail of the Cart.
a Privy or Bog-house.
to draw in a Friend, yet snack with the Sharper; also to countermine or disappoint.
as, He is got into the Crown Office, i.e. He's got drunk.
Beggars; Also Highway Spies, who traverse the Road, to give Intelligence of a Booty, &c.
one that helps Sollicitors to Affidavit-Men.
one that lies with a Cover over his Face all Night, and uses Washes, Paint, &c.
a new Gamester drawn in to be rook'd.
Taylors.
a Mob rudely arm'd; also Cudgel-Players.
a Man.
See Quire Cuffin.
a Kick or Blow.
a Man, either honest, or otherwise. A Bob-Cull, a Sweet-humour'd Man to a Wench. The Cull naps us; The Person robb'd apprehends us. A curst Cull, an ill-natur'd Fellow, a Churl to a Woman.
a Fop, a Fool, one who is easily drawn in and cheated by Whores and Rogues.
a sharp Fellow, one that sharps or shaves (as they call it) close.
Drunk.
strong-Liquor.
Clippings of Money.
reduced Lawyers, assuming to themselves the Knowledge of the Quirks and Quiddities of the Law, and are perpetually fomenting litigious Brawls, and insignificant Contentions, among the Scum of the Vulgar.
whose Practice is to cut off Pieces of Silk, Cloth, Linnen or Stuff, that hang out at the Shop-Windows of Mercers, Drapers, &c. as also sometimes the Tails of Womens Gowns, their Hoods, Scarves, Pinners, - if richly Lac'd.
cut off, dock'd, shorten'd, reduced.
Womens impertinent scolding at their Husbands behind the Curtain.
a genteel fine Miss, or Quality Whore.
Drunk. Deep Cut, very Drunk. Cut in the Leg or Back, the same. To Cut, also signifies to speak. To Cut bene, to speak gently, civilly or kindly; To Cut bene (or benar) Whidds, to give good Words. To Cut queere Whid's, to give ill Language. A Blow with a Stick or Cane, is also called a Cut. As, I took him a Cut cross the Shoulders.