to nap
To cheat at dice by securing one chance. Also to catch the venereal disease. You've napt it; you are infected.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
to nim
To steal or pilfer: from the German nemen, to take. Nim a togeman; steal a cloak.
to nose
To give evidence. To inform. His pall nosed and he was twisted for a crack; his confederate turned king's evidence, and he was hanged for burglary.
to null
To beat: as, He nulled him heartily.
to nurse
To cheat: as, they nursed him out of it. An estate in the hands of trustees, for the payment of bdebts, is said to be at nurse.
to palaver
To flatter: originally an African word for a treaty, talk, or conference.
to patter
To talk. To patter flash; to speak flash, or the language used by thieves. How the blowen lushes jackey, and patters flash; how the wench drinks gin, and talks flash.
to paum
To conceal in the hand. To paum a die: to hide a die in the palm of the hand. He paums; he cheats. Don't pretend to paum that upon me.
to pay
To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, and no pitch hot or ready. SEA TERM.--Also to beat: as, I will pay you as Paul paid the Ephesians, over the face and eyes, and all your d---d jaws. To pay away; to fight manfully, also to eat voraciously. To pay through the nose: to pay an extravagant price.
to pommel
To beat: originally confined to beating with the hilt of a sword, the knob being, from its similarity to a small apple, called pomelle; in Spanish it is still called the apple of the sword. As the clenched fist likewise somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.
to quash
To suppress, annul or overthrow; vulgarly pronounced squash: they squashed the indictment.
to queer
To puzzle or confound. I have queered the old full bottom; i.e. I have puzzled the judge. To queer one's ogles among bruisers; to darken one's day lights.
to quibble
To make subtle distinctions; also to play upon words.
to rag
To abuse, and tear to rags the characters of the persons abused. She gave him a good ragging, or ragged him off heartily.
to ramp
To snatch, or tear any thing forcibly from the person.
to recruit
To get a fresh supply of money.
to ring a peal
To scold; chiefly applied to women. His wife rung him a fine peal!
to roast
To arrest. I'll roast the dab; I'll arrest the rascal.--Also to jeer, ridicule, or banter. He stood the roast; he was the butt.--Roast meat clothes; Sunday or holiday-clothes. To cry roast meat; to boast of one's situation. To rule the roast; to be master or paramount.
to roger
To bull, or lie with a woman; from the name of Roger being frequently given to a bull.
to rub
To run away. Don't rub us to the whit; don't send us to Newgate. CANT.--To rub up; to refresh: to rub up one's memory. A rub: an impediment. A rubber; the best two out of three. To win a rubber: to win two games out of three.
to run a buck
To poll a bad vote at an election.--IRISH TERM.
to scamper
To run away hastily.
to screw
To copulate. A female screw; a common prostitute. To screw one up; to exact upon one in a bargain or reckoning.
to settle
To knock down or stun any one. We settled the cull by a stroke on his nob; we stunned the fellow by a blow on the head.
to sham abram
To pretend sickness.
to shamble
To walk awkwardly. Shamble-legged: one that walks wide, and shuffles about his feet.
to sherk
To evade or disappoint: to sherk one's duty.
to sherry
To run away: sherry off.
to shoole
To go skulking about.
to shuffle
To make use of false pretences, or unfair shifts. A shuffling fellow; a slippery shifting fellow.
to simper
To smile: to simper like a firmity kettle.
to sing
To call out; the coves sing out beef; they call out stop thief.
to smack
To kiss. I had a smack at her muns: I kissed her mouth. To smack calves skin; to kiss the book, i.e. to take an oath. The queer cuffin bid me smack calves skin, but I only bussed my thumb; the justice bid me kiss the book, but I only kissed my thumb.
to smash
To break; also to kick down stairs. CANT. To smash. To pass counterfeit money.
to smoke
To observe, to suspect.
to smush
To snatch, or seize suddenly.
to snabble
To rifle or plunder; also to kill.
to snaffle
To steal. To snaffle any ones poll; to steal his wig.
to snap the glaze
To break shop windows or show glasses.
to snilch
To eye, or look at any thing attentively: the cull snilches. CANT.
to snite
To wipe, or slap. Snite his snitch; wipe his nose, i.e. give him a good knock.
to snivel
To cry, to throw the snot or snivel about. Snivelling; crying. A snivelling fellow; one that whines or complains.
to snoach
To speak through the nose, to snuffle.
to snub
To check, or rebuke.
to snuffle
To speak through the nose.
to soak
To drink. An old soaker; a drunkard, one that moistens his clay to make it stick together.
to speak with
To rob. I spoke with the cull on the cherry-coloured prancer; I robbed the man on the black horse. CANT.
to spiflicate
To confound, silence, or dumbfound.
to sport
To exhibit: as, Jack Jehu sported a new gig yesterday: I shall sport a new suit next week. To sport or flash one's ivory; to shew one's teeth. To sport timber; to keep one's outside door shut; this term is used in the inns of court to signify denying one's self. N.B. The word SPORT was in great vogue ann. 1783 and 1784.
to sport blubber
Said of a large coarse woman, who exposes her bosom.
to spout
To rehearse theatrically.
to stag
To find, discover, or observe.
to star the glaze
To break and rob a jeweller's show glass. CANT.
to swing
To be hanged. He will swing for it; he will be hanged for it.
to the nines
To the dodges of the day. "He’s up to the NINES," means he’s up to everything. "Dressed to the NINES," means dressed loudly, or, as it is more generally known now, "dressed to death."
to thrum
To play on any instrument stringed with wire. A thrummer of wire; a player on the spinet, harpsichord, of guitar.
to tip
To give or lend. Tip me your daddle; give me your hand. Tip me a hog; give me a shilling. To tip the lion; to flatten a man's nose with the thumb, and, at the same time to extend his mouth, with the fingers, thereby giving him a sort of lion-like countenance. To tip the velvet; tonguing woman. To tip all nine; to knock down all the nine pins at once, at the game of bows or skittles: tipping, at these gaines, is slightly touching the tops of the pins with the bowl.
to titter
To suppress a laugh.
to top
To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors for snuffing the candles: he who last pronounces that word word, is obliged to get up and perform the operation.--to be topped; to be hanged. The cove was topped for smashing queerscreens; he was hanged for uttering forged bank notes.
to tower
To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.