smeller
A nose. Smellers: a cat's whiskers.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
smeller
The nose; "a blow on the SMELLER" is often to be found in pugilistic records. Otherwise a NOSE-ENDER.
smelling cheat
An orchard, or garden; also a nosegay. CANT.
smicket
A smock, or woman's shift.
smirk
A finical spruce fellow. To smirk; to smile, or look pleasantly.
smish
A shirt, or chemise.
smiter
An arm. To smite one's tutor; to get money from him. ACADEMIC TERM.
smith
(Capt. Alexander), The Thieves’ Grammar, 12mo, p. 28. 17—.
smithers
Or SMITHEREENS; "all to SMITHEREENS," all to smash, SMITHER is a Lincolnshire word for a fragment.
smithfield bargain
A bargain whereby the purchaser is taken in. This is likewise frequently used to express matches or marriages contracted solely on the score of interest, on one or both sides, where the fair sex are bought and sold like cattle in Smithfield.
smith’s
(Capt.) Compleat History of the Lives and Robberies of the most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifters, and Cheats, of both Sexes, in and about London and Westminster, 12mo, vol. i. 1719.
smock-face
A white delicate face,—a face without whiskers.
smoke
London. From the peculiar dense cloud which overhangs London. The metropolis is by no means so smoky as Sheffield, Birmingham, &c.; yet country-people, when going to London, frequently say they are on their way to the SMOKE; and Londoners, when leaving for the country, say they are going out of the SMOKE.
smoky
Curious, suspicious, inquisitive.
smouch
Dried leaves of the ash tree, used by the smugglers for adulterating the black or bohea teas.
smudge
To smear, obliterate, daub. Corruption of SMUTCH.
smug
A nick name for a blacksmith; also neat and spruce.
smug
Smuggling.—Anglo-Chinese.
smug lay
Persons who pretend to be smugglers of lace and valuable articles; these men borrow money of publicans by depositing these goods in their hands; they shortly decamp, and the publican discovers too late that he has been duped; and on opening the pretended treasure, he finds trifling articles of no value.
smuggings
Snatchings, or purloinings,—shouted out by boys, when snatching the tops, or small play property, of other lads, and then running off at full speed.
smut
Bawdy. Smutty story; an indecent story.
smut
A copper boiler. Also, the "blacks" from a furnace.
smutty
Obscene,—vulgar as applied to conversation. Variation of dirty.
snack
A share. To go snacks; to be partners.
snack
A share or division of plunder. To "go SNACKS," to divide equally. Also, a light repast.—Old Cant and Gipsy term.
snaffle
Conversation on professional or private subjects which the rest of the company cannot appreciate. In East Anglia, to SNAFFLE is to talk foolishly.
snaffled
Arrested, "pulled up,"—so termed from a kind of horse’s bit called a SNAFFLE.
snaffler
A highwayman. Snaffler of prances; a horse stealer.
snaggle teeth
Those that are uneven, and unpleasant looking.—West.
snaggling
Angling after geese with a hook and line, the bait being a worm or snail. The goose swallows the bait, and is quietly landed and bagged. See Seymour’s Sketches.
snaggs
Large teeth; also snails.
snaggy
Cross, crotchety, malicious.
snam
To snatch, or rob from the person. Mostly used to describe that kind of theft which consists in picking up anything lying about, and making off with it rapidly.
snap dragon
A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins.
snapps
Spirits. Dutch, SCHNAPPS. The word, as originally pronounced, is used by East-end Jews to describe any kind of spirits, and the Gentiles get as near as they can.
snaps
Share, portion; any articles or circumstances out of which money may be made; "looking out for SNAPS," waiting for windfalls, or odd jobs.—Old. Scotch, CHITS, term also used for "coppers," or halfpence.
snatch cly
A thief who snatches women's pockets.
sneak
A pilferer. Morning sneak; one who pilfers early in the morning, before it is light. Evening sneak; an evening pilferer. Upright sneak: one who steals pewter pots from the alehouse boys employed to collect them. To go upon the sneak; to steal into houses whose doors are carelessly left open. CANT.
sneaking budge
One that robs alone.
sneaksby
A mean-spirited fellow, a sneaking cur.
sneaksman
A shoplifter; a petty, cowardly thief.
sneering
Jeering, flickering, laughing in scorn.
sneeze-lurker
A thief who throws snuff in a person’s face, and then robs him.
sneezer
A snuff-box; a pocket-handkerchief.
snell-fencer
A street salesman of needles. SNELLS are needles.
snick-ersnee
A knife.—Sea. Thackeray uses the term in his humorous ballad of Little Billee.
snicker
A drinking-cup. A HORN-SNICKER, a drinking-horn.
snide
Bad, spurious, contemptible. As, "a SNIDE fellow," "SNIDE coin," &c. Also used as a substantive, as, "He’s a SNIDE," though this seems but a contraction of SNIDE ’UN.
snigger
To laugh in a covert manner. Also a mild form of swearing,—"I’m SNIGGERED if you will." Another form of this latter is JIGGERED.
sniggering
Laughing to oneself.—East.
snip
A tailor,—apparently from SNIPES, a pair of scissors, or from the snipping sound made by scissors in cutting up anything.
snipe
A long bill or account; also a term for attorneys,—a race with a remarkable propensity for long bills.
snipes
"a pair of SNIPES," a pair of scissors. They are occasionally made in the form of a snipe.
snitch
To turn snitch, or snitcher; to turn informer.
snitch
To give information to the police, to turn approver. SNITCHING is synonymous in thieves’ slang with "nosing" and "peaching."
snitchers
Persons who turn Queen’s evidence, or who tell tales. In Scotland, SNITCHERS signify handcuffs.
snob
A nick name for a shoemaker.
snob-stick
A workman who refuses to join in strikes, or trade-unions. Amplification of KNOB-STICK.
snobbish
Stuck up, proud, make-believe.
snooks
An imaginary personage often brought forward as the answer to an idle question, or as the perpetrator of a senseless joke. Said to be simply a shortening or abbreviation of "Sevenoaks," the Kentish village.