queer cole fencer
A putter off, or utterer, of bad money.
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queer cole maker
A maker of bad money.
queer cuffen
A justice of the peace, or magistrate,—a very ancient term, mentioned in the earliest slang dictionary. In this sense, as well as in that of the verb just given, the term is evidently derived from quæro, to inquire, to question. Quiz and quis? have also an undoubted connexion.
queer cuffin
A justice of the peace; also a churl.
queer degen
An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted.
queer kicks
A bad pair of breeches.
queer mort
A diseased strumpet. CANT.
queer nab
A felt hat, or other bad hat.
queer plungers
Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each; and the supposed drowned persons, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.
queer prancer
A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer.
queer rooster
An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night cellars.
Queer Street
In a difficult or precarious financial situation
queer-street
"in QUEER STREET," in difficulty or in want.
querier
A chimney-sweep who calls from house to house soliciting employment,—formerly termed KNULLER, which see.
qui-hi
An English resident at Calcutta.—Anglo-Indian.
qui-tam
A solicitor. He who, i.e., "he who, as much for himself as for the King," seeks a conviction, the penalty for which goes half to the informer and half to the Crown. The term would, therefore, with greater propriety, be applied to a spy than to a solicitor.
quick and nimble
More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or errand that requires dispatch.
quick sticks
In a hurry, rapidly; "to cut QUICK STICKS," to start off hurriedly, or without more ado. See CUT ONE’S STICK.
quid
The quantity of tobacco put into the mouth at one time. To quid tobacco; to chew tobacco. Quid est hoc? hoc est quid; a guinea. Half a quid; half a guinea. The swell tipped me fifty quid for the prad; the gentleman gave fifty pounds for the horse.
quid
Or THICK UN, a sovereign; "half a QUID," half a sovereign; QUIDS, money generally; "QUID for a QUOD," one good turn for another. The word is used by old French writers:—
quid-nunc
An inquisitive person, always seeking for news. The words translated simply signify, "What now?"
quidnunc
A politician: from a character of that name in the farce of the Upholsterer.
quids
Cash, money. Can you tip me any quids? can you lend me some money?
quiet
"on the QUIET," clandestinely, so as to avoid observation, "under the rose."
quiffing
Rogering. See TO ROGER.
quill driver
A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer.
quill-driver
A scrivener, a clerk,—satirical phrase similar to "steel bar driver," a tailor.
quiller
A parasite, a person who sucks neatly through a quill. See SUCK UP.
quim
The private parts of a woman: perhaps from the Spanish quemar, to burn. (CAMBRIDGE) A piece's furbelow.
quinsey
Choked by a hempen quinsey; hanged.
quipps
Girds, taunts, jests.
quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
quisby
Bankrupt, poverty-stricken. Amplification of QUEER.
quisi
Roguish, low, obscene.—Anglo-Chinese.
quitam
A quitam horse; one that will both carry and draw. LAW WIT.
quiz
A strange-looking fellow, an odd dog. OXFORD.
quiz
A prying person, an odd fellow. Originally Oxford slang, but now general, and lately admitted into some dictionaries. See QUEER CUFFEN.
quizzing-glass
An eyeglass. This was applied to the old single eyeglass, which was not stuck in the eye, as now, but was held in the hand.
quockerwodger
A wooden toy figure which, when pulled by a string, jerks its limbs about. The term is used in a slang sense, to signify a pseudo-politician, one whose strings of action are pulled by somebody else.
quod
Newgate, or any other prison. The dab's in quod; the poor rogue is in prison.
quod
A prison, a lock-up; QUODDED, put in prison. QUOD is really a shortening of quadrangle; so to be QUODDED is to be within four walls. The expression is, however, seldom used now except to mean in prison. At Oxford, where it is spelt QUAD, the word has its original signification.
quodger
A contraction, or corruption rather, of the Latin law phrase, QUO JURE? by what law?—Legal.
quota
Snack, share, part, proportion, or dividend. Tip me my quota; give me part of the winnings, booty, or plunder. CANT.
r. m. d
Cash down, immediate payment. The initial letters of READY MONEY DOWN. Another version of this is P. Y. C. (pay your cash), often seen in the market quotations,—as, "Meat fetched 6s. 4d. a stone, P. Y. C., and 6s. 6d. for the account."
rabbit
A Welch rabbit; bread and cheese toasted, i.e. a Welch rare bit. Rabbits were also a sort of wooden canns to drink out of, now out of use.
rabbit
When a person gets the worst of a bargain, he is said "to have bought the RABBIT." From an old story about a man selling a cat to a foreigner for a rabbit.
rabbit suckers
Young spendthrifts taking up goods on trust at great prices.
rack rent
Rent strained to the utmost value. To lie at rack and manger; to be in great disorder.
rackaback
A gormagon. See GORMAGON.
racket
A dodge, manœuvre, exhibition; a disturbance.
racks
The bones of a dead horse. Term used by horse-slaughterers.
raclan
A married woman. Originally Gipsy, but now a term with English tramps.
rafe
Or RALPH, a pawnbroker’s duplicate.—Norwich.
raff
A dirty, dissipated fellow; RAFFISH, looking like a RAFF.
raffs
An appellation given by the gownsmen of the university of Oxford to the inhabitants of that place.
rag
Bank notes. Money in general. The cove has no rag; the fellow has no money.
rag
To divide or share; "let’s RAG IT," or "go RAGS," i.e., share it equally between us.—Norwich.
rag fair
An inspection of the linen and necessaries of a company of soldiers, commonly made by their officers on Mondays or Saturdays.
rag water
Gin, or any other common dram: these liquors seldom failing to reduce those that drink them to rags.
ragamuffin
A ragged fellow, one all in tatters, a
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