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A favourite name for a horse.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
titivate
To put in order, or dress up. Originally TIDY-VATE.
titley
Drink, generally applied to intoxicating beverages.
titter
A girl; "nark the TITTER," i.e., look at the girl.—Tramp’s term.
titter tatter
One reeling, and ready to fall at the least touch; also the childish amusement of riding upon the two ends of a plank, poised upon the prop underneath its centre, called also see-saw. Perhaps tatter is a rustic pronunciation of totter.
tittle-tattle
Idle discourse, scandal, women's talk, or small talk.
tittup
A gentle hand gallop, or canter.
tizzy
A sixpence. Corruption of TESTER.
to amuse
To fling dust or snuff in the eyes of the person intended to be robbed; also to invent some plausible tale, to delude shop-keepers and others, thereby to put them off their guard. CANT.
to bam
To impose on any one by a falsity; also to jeer or make fun of any one.
to bamboozle
To make a fool of any one, to humbug or impose on him.
to bar the bubble
To except against the general rule, that he who lays the odds must always be adjudged the loser: this is restricted to betts laid for liquor.
to baste
To beat. I'll give him his bastings, I'll beat him heartily.
to bear the bell
To excel or surpass all competitors, to be the principal in a body or society; an allusion to the fore horse or leader of a team, whose harness is commonly ornamented with a bell or bells. Some suppose it a term borrowed from an ancient tournament, where the victorious knights bore away the BELLE or FAIR LADY. Others derive it from a horse-race, or other rural contentions, where bells were frequently given as prizes.
to bilk
To cheat. Let us bilk the rattling cove; let us cheat the hackney coachman of his fare. Cant. Bilking a coachman, a box-keeper, and a poor whore, were formerly, among men of the town, thought gallant actions.
to bitch
To yield, or give up an attempt through fear. To stand bitch; to make tea, or do the honours of the tea-table, performing a female part: bitch there standing for woman, species for genius.
to bite
To over-reach, or impose; also to steal.--Cant.--Biting was once esteemed a kind of wit, similar to the humbug. An instance of it is given in the Spectator: A man under sentence of death having sold his body to a surgeon rather below the market price, on receiving the money, cried, A bite! I am to be hanged in chains.--To bite the roger; to steal a portmanteau. To bite the wiper, to steal a handkerchief. To bite on the bridle; to be pinched or reduced to difficulties.
to blot the skrip and jar it
To stand engaged or bound for any one. Cant.
to blow the gab
To confess, or impeach a confederate. Cant.
to blow the grounsils
To lie with a woman on the floor. Cant.
to bluster
To talk big, to hector or bully.
to bolt
To run suddenly out of one's house, or hiding place, through fear; a term borrowed from a rabbit-warren, where the rabbits are made to bolt, by sending ferrets into their burrows: we set the house on fire, and made him bolt. To bolt, also means to swallow meat without chewing: the farmer's servants in Kent are famous for bolting large quantities of pickled pork.
to bounce
To brag or hector; also to tell an improbable story. To bully a man out of any thing. The kiddey bounced the swell of the blowen; the lad bullied the gentleman out of the girl.
to box the jesuit, and get cock roaches
A sea term for masturbation; a crime, it is said, much practised by the reverend fathers of that society.
to brush
To run away. Let us buy a brush and lope; let us go away or off. To have a brush with a woman; to lie with her. To have a brush with a man; to fight with him. The cove cracked the peter and bought a brush; the fellow broke open the trunk, and then ran away.
to budge
To move, or quit one's station. Don't budge from hence; i.e. don't move from hence, stay here.
to bug
A cant word among journeymen hatters, signifying the exchanging some of the dearest materials of which a hat is made for others of less value. Hats are composed of the furs and wool of divers animals among which is a small portion of beavers' fur. Bugging, is stealing the beaver, and substituting in lieu thereof an equal weight of some cheaper ingredient.--Bailiffs who take money to postpone or refrain the serving of a writ, are said to bug the writ.
to bullock
To hector, bounce, or bully.
to bum
To arrest a debtor. The gill bummed the swell for a thimble; the tradesman arrested the gentleman for a watch.
to cap
To take one's oath. I will cap downright; I will swear home. CANT.
to chaunt
To sing. To publish an account in the newspapers. The kiddey was chaunted for a toby; his examination concerning a highway robbery was published in the papers.
to chouse
To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it. Chouse is also the term for a game like chuck-farthing.
to chuck
To shew a propensity for a man. The mors chucks; the wench wants to be doing.
to click
To snatch. To click a nab; to snatch a hat. CANT.
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.
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