to click
To snatch. To click a nab; to snatch a hat. CANT.
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to clip
To hug or embrace: to clip and cling. To clip the coin; to diminish the current coin. To clip the king's English; to be unable to speak plain through drunkenness.
to clutch the fist
To clench or shut the hand. Clutch fisted; covetous, stingy. See CLOSE-FISTED.
to coax
To fondle, or wheedle. To coax a pair of stockings; to pull down the part soiled into the shoes, so as to give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones. Coaxing is also used, instead of darning, to hide the holes about the ancles.
to cobble
To mend, or patch; likewise to do a thing in a bungling manner.
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.
to couch a hogshead
To lie down to sleep. CANT.
to crack
To boast or brag; also to break. I cracked his napper; I broke his head.
to crash
To kill. Crash that cull; kill that fellow. CANT.
to creeme
To slip or slide any thing into the hands of another. CANT.
to crib
To purloin, or appropriate to one's own use, part of any thing intrusted to one's care.
to crow
To brag, boast, or triumph. To crow over any one; to keep him in subjection: an image drawn from a cock, who crows over a vanquished enemy. To pluck a crow; to reprove any one for a fault committed, to settle a dispute. To strut like a crow in a gutter; to walk proudly, or with an air of consequence.
to cut
(Cambridge.) To renounce acquaintance with any one is to CUT him. There are several species of the CUT. Such as the cut direct, the cut indirect, the cut sublime, the cut infernal, &c. The cut direct, is to start across the street, at the approach of the obnoxious person in order to avoid him. The cut indirect, is to look another way, and pass without appearing to observe him.
to cut bene
To speak gently. To cut bene whiddes; to give good words. To cut queer whiddes; to give foul language. To cut a bosh, or a flash; to make a figure. CANT.
to cutty-eye
To look out of the corners of one's eyes, to leer, to look askance. The cull cutty-eyed at us; the fellow looked suspicious at us.
to dawb
To bribe. The cull was scragged because he could not dawb; the rogue was hanged because he could not bribe. All bedawbed with lace; all over lace.
to diddle
To cheat. To defraud. The cull diddled me out of my dearee; the fellow robbed me of my sweetheart. See Jeremy Diddler In Raising The Wind.
to do over
Carries the same meaning, but is not so briefly expressed: the former having received the polish of the present times.
to dock
To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell all the darkmans; the fellow laid with the wench all night. Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis from a venereal complaint. He must go into dock; a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken of must undergo a salivation.
to dowse
To take down: as, Dowse the pendant. Dowse your dog vane; take the cockade out of your hat. Dowse the glim; put out the candle.
to draw
To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.
to dress
To beat. I'll dress his hide neatly; I'll beat him soundly.
to drub
To beat any one with a stick, or rope's end: perhaps a contraction of DRY RUB. It is also used to signify a good beating with any instrument.
to dup
To open a door: a contraction of DO OPE or OPEN. See DUB.
to edge
To excite, stimulate, or provoke; or as it is vulgarly called, to egg a man on. Fall back, fall edge; i.e. let what will happen. Some derive to egg on, from the Latin word, AGE, AGE.
to fag
To beat. Fag the bloss; beat the wench; Cant. A fag also means a boy of an inferior form or class, who acts as a servant to one of a superior, who is said to fag him, he is my fag; whence, perhaps, fagged out, for jaded or tired. To stand a good fag; not to be soon tired.
to famgrasp
To shake bands: figuratively, to agree or make up a difference. Famgrasp the cove; shake hands with the fellow. CANT.
to fan
To beat any one. I fanned him sweetly; I beat him heartily.
to fence
To pawn or sell to a receiver of stolen goods. The kiddey fenced his thimble for three quids; the young fellow pawned his watch for three guineas. To fence invariably means to pawn or sell goods to a receiver.
to fib
To beat. Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse. CANT.--A fib is also a tiny lie.
to fight a crib
To make a sham fight. BEAR GARDEN TERM.
to floor
To knock down. Floor the pig; knock down the officer.
to flout
To jeer, to ridicule.
to flux
To cheat, cozen, or over-reach; also to salivate. To flux a wig; to put it up in curl, and bake it.
to frig
Figuratively used for trifling.
to frisk
Used by thieves to signify searching a person
to funk
To use an unfair motion of the hand in plumping at taw. SCHOOLBOY'S TERM.
to fuzz
To shuffle cards minutely: also, to change the pack.
to gaff
To game by tossing up halfpence.
to gouge
To squeeze out a man's eye with the thumb: a cruel practice used by the Bostonians in America.
to grease
To bribe. To grease a man in the fist; to bribe him. To grease a fat sow in the a-se; to give to a rich man. Greasy chin; a treat given to parish officers in part of commutation for a bastard: called also, Eating a child.
to grind
To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
to grubshite
To make foul or dirty.
to heave
To rob. To heave a case; to rob a house. To heave a bough; to rob a booth. CANT.
to hoop
To beat. I'll well hoop his or her barrel, I'll beat him or her soundly.
to hue
To lash. The cove was hued in the naskin; the rogue was soundly lashed in bridewell. CANT.
to huff
To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster, bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted bully. To stand the huff; to be answerable for the reckoning in a public house.
to hunch
To jostle, or thrust.
to job
To reprove or reprehend. CAMBRIDGE TERM.
to keep
To inhabit. Lord, where do you keep? i.e. where are your rooms? ACADEMICAL PHRASE. Mother, your tit won't keep; your daughter will not preserve her virginity.
to kid
To coax or wheedle. To inveigle. To amuse a man or divert his attention while another robs him. The sneaksman kidded the cove of the ken, while his pall frisked the panney; the thief amused the master of the house, while his companion robbed the house.
to knock anthony
Said of an in-kneed person, or one whose knees knock together; to cuff Jonas. See JONAS.
to knuckle one's wipe
To steal his handkerchief.
to lag
To drop behind, to keep back. Lag last; the last of a company.
to lib
To lie together. CANT.
to lick
To beat; also to wash, or to paint slightly over. I'll give you a good lick o' the chops; I'll give you a good stroke or blow on the face. Jack tumbled into a cow t--d, and nastied his best clothes, for which his father stept up, and licked him neatly.--I'll lick you! the dovetail to which is, If you lick me all over, you won't miss--.
to lollop
To lean with one's elbows on a table.
to lope
To leap, to run away. He loped down the dancers; he ran down stairs.
to melt
To spend. Will you melt a borde? will you spend a shilling? The cull melted a couple of decusses upon us; the gentleman spent a couple of crowns upon us. CANT.
to milk the pigeon
To endeavour at impossibilities.