rum bleating cheat
A fat wether sheep. CANT.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
rum blowen
A handsome wench. CANT.
rum bob
A young apprentice; also a sharp trick.
rum booze
Wine, or any other good liquor. Rum boozing welts; bunches of grapes. CANT.
rum bubber
A dexterous fellow at stealing silver tankards from inns and taverns.
rum bugher
A valuable dog. CANT.
rum chub
Among butchers, a customer easily imposed on, as to the quality and price of meat. CANT.
rum clout
A fine silk, cambric, or holland handkerchief. CANT.
rum cod
A good purse of gold. CANT.
rum cole
New money, or medals.
rum cove
A dexterous or clever rogue.
rum degen
A handsome sword. CANT.
rum diver
A dextrous pickpocket. CANT.
rum drawers
Silk, or other fine stockings. CANT.
rum duke
A jolly handsome fellow; also an odd eccentric fellow; likewise the boldest and stoutest fellows lately among the Alsatians, Minters, Savoyards, and other inhabitants of privileged districts, sent to remove and guard the goods of such bankrupts as intended to take sanctuary in those places. CANT.
rum fun
A sharp trick. CANT.
rum gaggers
Cheats who tell wonderful stories of their sufferings at sea, or when taken by the Algerines, CANT.
rum glymmer
King or chief of the link-boys. CANT.
rum kicks
Breeches of gold or silver brocade, or richly laced with gold or silver. CANT.
rum mawnd
One that counterfeits a fool. CANT
rum mort
A queen, or great lady. CANT.
rum nantz
Good French brandy. CANT.
rum ned
A very rich silly fellow. CANT.
rum padders
Highwaymen well mounted and armed. CANT.
rum peepers
Fine looking-glasses. CANT.
rum quids
A great booty. CANT.
rum ruff peck
Westphalia ham. CANT.
rum snitch
A smart fillip on the nose.
rum squeeze
Much wine, or good liquor, given among fiddlers. CANT.
rum topping
A rich commode, or woman's head-dress.
rum-mizzler
Seven Dials cant for a person who is clever at making his escape, or getting out of a difficulty.
rum-slim
Or RUM SLING, rum punch.
rumbler
A four-wheeled cab. Not so common as BOUNDER. See GROWLER.
rumbo
Rum, water, and sugar; also a prison.
rumbowling
Anything inferior or adulterated.—Sea.
rumbumptious
Haughty, pugilistic.
rumbustious
Or RUMBUSTICAL, pompous, haughty, boisterous, careless of the comfort of others.
rumford
To ride to Rumford to have one's backside new bottomed: i.e. to have a pair of new leather breeches. Rumford was formerly a famous place for leather breeches. A like saying is current in Norfolk and Suffolk, of Bungay, and for the same reason.--Rumford lion; a calf. See ESSEX LION.
rumgumption
Or GUMPTION, knowledge, capacity, capability,—hence, RUMGUMPTIOUS, knowing, wide-awake, forward, positive, pert, blunt.
rump
To rump any one; to turn the back to him: an evolution sometimes used at court. Rump and a dozen; a rump of beef and a dozen of claret; an Irish wager, called also buttock and trimmings. Rump and kidney men; fiddlers that play at feasts, fairs, weddings, &c. and live chiefly on the remnants.
rump
To turn the back upon any one. A still more decided "cut direct" than the "cold shoulder."
rumpus
A riot, quarrel, or confusion.
rumpus
A noise, disturbance, a "row."
rumy
A good woman or girl.—Gipsy Cant. In the Continental Gipsy, ROMI, a woman, a wife, is the feminine of RO, a man.
run
(good or bad), the success or duration of a piece’s performance.—Theatrical.
run for the money
TO HAVE A, to have a start given in with a bet. As 20 to 1 against Doncaster, with a RUN given. See P.P. To have a RUN FOR ONE’S MONEY is also to have a good determined struggle for anything.
run goods
A maidenhead, being a commodity never entered.
run-in
To lock up in the station-house. The police are very fond of threatening to RUN-IN any person to whom they may take exception, and, as recent revelations have shown, are by no means averse from putting their threats into execution.
running patterer
A street seller who runs or moves briskly along, calling aloud his wares.
running smobble
Snatching goods off a counter, and throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes off with them.
running stationers
Hawker of newspapers, trials, and dying speeches.
runt
A short squat man or woman: from the small cattle called Welsh runts.
rush
To come upon suddenly, generally for the purpose of borrowing. To "give a man the RUSH," is to spunge upon him all day, and then borrow money at the finish, or pursue some such similar mode of procedure.
rushers
Thieves who knock at the doors of great houses in London, in summer time, when the families are gone out of town, and on the door being opened by a woman, rush in and rob the house; also housebreakers who enter lone houses by force.
russian coffee-house
The Brown Bear in Bow-street, Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers and runners of the Bow street justices.
rust
"to nab the RUST," to take offence. RUSTY, cross, ill-tempered, morose; not able to go through life like a person of easy and "polished" manners.
rustication
The sending of an offender from the University for one term or more, thus hindering his qualifying for a degree.
rusty
Out of use, To nab the rust; to be refractory; properly applied to a restive horse, and figuratively to the human species. To ride rusty; to be sullen; called also to ride grub.
rusty guts
A blunt surly fellow: a jocular misnomer of RESTICUS.
rutat
Or RATTAT, a "tatur," or potato.