to sherry
To run away: sherry off.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
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.
to track
To go. Track up the dancers; go up stairs. CANT.
to transnear
To come up with any body.
to trapan
To inveigle, or ensnare.
to trig it
To play truant. To lay a man trigging; to knock him down.
to troll
To loiter or saunter about.
to tune
To beat: his father tuned him delightfully: perhaps from fetching a tune out of the person beaten, or from a comparison with the disagreeable sounds of instruments when tuning.
to tup
To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
to tweak
To pull: to tweak any one's nose.
to twig
To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, snap asunder, or break off. To twig the darbies; to knock off the irons.
to twit
To reproach a person, or remind him of favours conferred.
to vamp
To pawn any thing. I'll vamp it, and tip you the cole: I'll pawn it, and give you the money. Also to refit, new dress, or rub up old hats, shoes or other wearing apparel; likewise to put new feet to old boots. Applied more particularly to a quack bookseller.
to vowel
A gamester who does not immediately pay his losings, is said to vowel the winner, by repeating the vowels I. O. U. or perhaps from giving his note for the money according to the Irish form, where the acknowledgment of the debt is expressed by the letters I. O. U. which, the sum and name of the debtor being added, is deemed a sufficient security among gentlemen.
to waddle
To go like a duck. To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts, called his differences, on the Stock Exchange, and therefore absents himself from it.
to wap
To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
to weed
To take a part. The kiddey weeded the swell's screens; the youth took some of the gentleman's bank notes.
to well
To divide unfairly. To conceal part. A cant phrase used by thieves, where one of the party conceals some of the booty, instead of dividing it fairly amongst his confederates.
to whiddle
To tell or discover. He whiddles; he peaches. He whiddles the whole scrap; he discovers all he knows. The cull whiddled because they would not tip him a snack: the fellow peached because they would not give him a share, They whiddle beef, and we must brush; they cry out thieves, and we must make off. Cant.
to whip the cock
A piece of sport practised at wakes, horse-races, and fairs in Leicestershire: a cock being tied or fastened into a hat or basket, half a dozen carters blindfolded, and armed with their cart whips, are placed round it, who, after being turned thrice about, begin to whip the cock, which if any one strikes so as to make it cry out, it becomes his property; the joke is, that instead of whipping the cock they flog each other heartily.
to win
To steal. The cull has won a couple of rum glimsticks; the fellow has stolen a pair of fine candlesticks.
to wiredraw
To lengthen out or extend any book, letter, or discourse.
to wobble
To boil. Pot wobbler; one who boils a pot.
to yam
To eat or stuff heartily.
to yelp
To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions.
to yowl
To cry aloud, or howl.
to-do
(pronounced quickly, and as one word), a disturbance, trouble; "here’s a pretty TO-DO," here is an unpleasant difficulty. This exactly tallies with the French, AFFAIRE (à faire).—See Forby’s Vocabulary of East Anglia.
to-morrow come never
When two Sundays come together; never.
to-rights
Excellent, very well, or good.—Low London slang.
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