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Fast by the river Waveney,
I would not care for the king of Cockney;
i.e. the king of London.
COCKSHUT TIME. The evening, when fowls go to roost.
COD. A cod of money: a good sum of money.
CODDERS. Persons employed by the gardeners to gather
peas.
CODGER. An old codger: an old fellow.
COD PIECE. The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they
bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar? a jocular
attack on a patient angler by watermen,
CODS. The scrotum. Also a nick name for a curate: a rude
fellow meeting a curate, mistook him for the rector, and
accosted him with the vulgar appellation of Bol ks the
rector, No, Sir, answered he; only Cods the curate, at
your service.
COD'S HEAD. A stupid fellow.
COFFEE HOUSE. A necessary house. To make a coffee-house
of a woman's ****; to go in and out and spend
nothing.
COG. The money, or whatsoever the sweeteners drop to
draw in a bubble.
COG. A tooth. A queer cog; a rotten tooth. How the
cull flashes his queer cogs; how the fool shews his rotten
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teeth.
TO COG. To cheat with dice; also to coax or wheedle, To
cog a die; to conceal or secure a die. To cog a dinner;
to wheedle one out of a dinner.
COGUE. A dram of any spirituous liquor.
COKER. A lie.
COKES. The fool in the play of Bartholomew Fair: perhaps
a contraction of the word COXCOMB.
COLCANNON. Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a
mortar, and then stewed with butter: an Irish dish.
COLD. You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or
advice to desist from an attempt. He caught cold by
lying in bed barefoot; a saying of any one extremely tender
or careful of himself.
COLD BURNING. A punishment inflicted by private soldiers
on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of their
mess laws; it is administered in the following manner:
The prisoner is set against the wall, with the arm which is
to be burned tied as high above his head as possible. The
executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of
cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent,
patting him, and leading the water gently down his
body, till it runs out at his breeches knees: this is repeated
to the other arm, if he is sentenced to be burned in both.
COLD COOK. An undertaker of funerals, or carrion hunter.
See CARRION HUNTER.
COLD IRON. A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or
stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his beef.
COLD MEAT. A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man's
house.
COLD PIG. To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on
sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pulling off
all the bed clothes from them, and throwing cold water
upon them.
COLD PUDDING. This is said to settle one's love.
COLE. Money. Post the cole: pay down the money.
COLIANDER, or CORIANDER SEEDS. Money.
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COLLAR DAY. Execution day.
COLLEGE. Newgate or any other prison. New College:
the Royal Exchange. King's College: the King's Bench
prison. He has been educated at the steel, and took his
last degree at college; he has received his education at
the house of correction, and was hanged at Newgate.
COLLEGE COVE. The College cove has numbered him, and if he
is knocked down he'll be twisted; the turnkey of Newgate
has told the judge how many times the prisoner has been
tried before and therefore if he is found guilty, he certainly
will be hanged. It is said to be the custom of the Old Bailey
for one of the turnkeys of Newgate to give information to
the judge how many times an old offender has been tried,
by holding up as many fingers as the number of times the
prisoner has been before arraigned at that bar.
COLLEGIATES. Prisoners of the one, and shopkeepers of
the other of those places.
COLLECTOR. A highwayman.
TO COLLOGUE. To wheedle or coax.
COOK RUFFIAN, who roasted the devil in his feathers. A
bad cook.
COOL CRAPE. A shroud.
COOLER. A woman.
COOLER. The backside. Kiss my cooler. Kiss my a-se.
It is principally used to signify a woman's posteriors.
COOL LADY. A female follower of the camp, who sells
brandy.
COOL NANTS. Brandy.
COOL TANKARD. Wine and water, with lemon, sugar, and
burrage.
COLQUARRON. A man's neck. His colquarron is just about
to be twisted; he is just going to be hanged. CANT.
COLT. One who lets horses to highwaymen; also a boy newly
initiated into roguery; a grand or petty juryman on his
first assize. CANT.
COLTAGE. A fine or beverage paid by colts on their first
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entering into their offices.
COLT BOWL. Laid short of the jack by a colt bowler, i.e.
a person raw or unexperienced in the art of bowling.
COLT'S TOOTH. An old fellow who marries or keeps a young
girl, is said to have a colt's tooth in his head.
COLT VEAL. Coarse red veal, more like the flesh of a colt
than that of a calf.
COMB. To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any
one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb
his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she
threw a stool at him.
COME. To come; to lend. Has he come it; has he lent it?
To come over any one; to cheat or over reach him.
Coming wench; a forward wench, also a breeding woman.
COMING! SO IS CHRISTMAS. Said of a person who has long
been called, and at length answers, Coming!
COMFORTABLE IMPORTANCE. A wife.
COMMISSION. A shirt. CANT.
COMMODE. A woman's head dress.
COMMODITY. A woman's commodity; the private parts of
a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute.
COMMONS. The house of commons; the necessary house.
COMPANY. To see company; to enter into a course of prostitution.
COMPLIMENT. See CHRISTMAS.
COMUS'S COURT. A social meeting formerly held at the
Half Moon tavern Cheapside.
CONFECT. Counterfeited.
CONGER. To conger; the agreement of a set or knot of
booksellers of London, that whosoever of them shall buy
a good copy, the rest shall take off such a particular number,
in quires, at a stated price; also booksellers joining to
buy either a considerable or dangerous copy.
CONGO. Will you lap your congo with me? will you drink
tea with me?
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CONNY WABBLE. Eggs and brandy beat up together. IRISH.
CONSCIENCE KEEPER. A superior, who by his influence
makes his dependants act as he pleases.
CONTENT. The cull's content; the man is past complaining:
a saying of a person murdered for resisting the robbers. CANT.
CONTENT. A thick liquor, in imitation of chocolate, made
of milk and gingerbread.
CONTRA DANCE. A dance where the dancers of the different
sexes stand opposite each other, instead of side by side, as
in the minuet, rigadoon, louvre, and now corruptly called a
country dance.
CONUNDRUMS. Enigmatical conceits.
CONVENIENT. A mistress. CANT.
CONVENIENCY. A necessary. A leathern conveniency, a coach.
COOPED UP. Imprisoned, confined like a fowl in a coop.
COQUET. A jilt.
CORINTH. A bawdy-house. CANT.
CORINTHIANS: Frequenters of brothels. Also an impudent,
brazen-faced fellow, perhaps from the Corinthian
brass.
CORK-BRAINED. Light-headed, foolish.
CORNED. Drunk.
CORNISH HUG. A particular lock in wrestling, peculiar to
the people of that county.
CORNY-FACED. A very red pimpled face.
CORPORAL. To mount a corporal and four; to be guilty
of onanism: the thumb is the corporal, the four fingers
the privates.
CORPORATION. A large belly. He has a glorious corporation;
he has a very prominent belly.
CORPORATION. The magistrates, of a corporate
town. Corpus sine ratione. Freemen of a corporation's
work; neither strong nor handsome.
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COSSET. A foundling. Cosset colt or lamb; a colt or
lamb brought up by hand.
COSTARD. The head. I'll smite your costard; I'll give
you a knock on the head.
COSTARD MONGER. A dealer in fruit, particularly apples.
COT, or QUOT. A man who meddles with women's household [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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