to fan
To beat any one. I fanned him sweetly; I beat him heartily.
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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.
to nap
To cheat at dice by securing one chance. Also to catch the venereal disease. You've napt it; you are infected.
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.
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