rum snitch
A smart fillip on the nose.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
rum squeeze
Much wine, or good liquor, given among fiddlers. CANT.
rum topping
A rich commode, or woman's head-dress.
rum-mizzler
Seven Dials cant for a person who is clever at making his escape, or getting out of a difficulty.
rum-slim
Or RUM SLING, rum punch.
rumbler
A four-wheeled cab. Not so common as BOUNDER. See GROWLER.
rumbo
Rum, water, and sugar; also a prison.
rumbowling
Anything inferior or adulterated.—Sea.
rumbumptious
Haughty, pugilistic.
rumbustious
Or RUMBUSTICAL, pompous, haughty, boisterous, careless of the comfort of others.
rumford
To ride to Rumford to have one's backside new bottomed: i.e. to have a pair of new leather breeches. Rumford was formerly a famous place for leather breeches. A like saying is current in Norfolk and Suffolk, of Bungay, and for the same reason.--Rumford lion; a calf. See ESSEX LION.
rumgumption
Or GUMPTION, knowledge, capacity, capability,—hence, RUMGUMPTIOUS, knowing, wide-awake, forward, positive, pert, blunt.
rump
To rump any one; to turn the back to him: an evolution sometimes used at court. Rump and a dozen; a rump of beef and a dozen of claret; an Irish wager, called also buttock and trimmings. Rump and kidney men; fiddlers that play at feasts, fairs, weddings, &c. and live chiefly on the remnants.
rump
To turn the back upon any one. A still more decided "cut direct" than the "cold shoulder."
rumpus
A riot, quarrel, or confusion.
rumpus
A noise, disturbance, a "row."
rumy
A good woman or girl.—Gipsy Cant. In the Continental Gipsy, ROMI, a woman, a wife, is the feminine of RO, a man.
run
(good or bad), the success or duration of a piece’s performance.—Theatrical.
run for the money
TO HAVE A, to have a start given in with a bet. As 20 to 1 against Doncaster, with a RUN given. See P.P. To have a RUN FOR ONE’S MONEY is also to have a good determined struggle for anything.
run goods
A maidenhead, being a commodity never entered.
run-in
To lock up in the station-house. The police are very fond of threatening to RUN-IN any person to whom they may take exception, and, as recent revelations have shown, are by no means averse from putting their threats into execution.
running patterer
A street seller who runs or moves briskly along, calling aloud his wares.
running smobble
Snatching goods off a counter, and throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes off with them.
running stationers
Hawker of newspapers, trials, and dying speeches.
runt
A short squat man or woman: from the small cattle called Welsh runts.
rush
To come upon suddenly, generally for the purpose of borrowing. To "give a man the RUSH," is to spunge upon him all day, and then borrow money at the finish, or pursue some such similar mode of procedure.
rushers
Thieves who knock at the doors of great houses in London, in summer time, when the families are gone out of town, and on the door being opened by a woman, rush in and rob the house; also housebreakers who enter lone houses by force.
russian coffee-house
The Brown Bear in Bow-street, Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers and runners of the Bow street justices.
rust
"to nab the RUST," to take offence. RUSTY, cross, ill-tempered, morose; not able to go through life like a person of easy and "polished" manners.
rustication
The sending of an offender from the University for one term or more, thus hindering his qualifying for a degree.
rusty
Out of use, To nab the rust; to be refractory; properly applied to a restive horse, and figuratively to the human species. To ride rusty; to be sullen; called also to ride grub.
rusty guts
A blunt surly fellow: a jocular misnomer of RESTICUS.
rutat
Or RATTAT, a "tatur," or potato.
rutting
Copulating. Rutting time; the season, when deer go to rut.
rye
Gipsy term for a young man. In the same parlance "rawnie" is a young woman.
sacheverel
The iron door, or blower, to the mouth of a stove: from a divine of that name, who made himself famous for blowing the coals of dissension in the latter end of the reign of queen Ann.
sack
A pocket. To buy the sack: to get drunk. To dive into the sack; to pick a pocket. To break a bottle in an empty sack; a bubble bet, a sack with a bottle in it not being an empty sack.
sack
To "get the SACK," to be discharged by an employer. Varied in the North of England to "get the BAG." In London it is sometimes spoken of as "getting the EMPTY." It is common now to speak of "getting the BULLET," an evident play on the word discharge.
sad dog
A wicked debauched fellow; one of the ancient family of the sad dogs. Swift translates it into Latin by the words TRISTIS CANIS.
sad dog
A merry fellow, a joker, a "gay" or "fast" man.
saddle
To saddle the spit; to give a dinner or supper. To saddle one's nose; to wear spectacles. To saddle a place or pension; to oblige the holder to pay a certain portion of his income to some one nominated by the donor. Saddle sick: galled with riding, having lost leather.
saddle
An additional charge made by the manager to a performer upon his benefit night.—Theatrical.
safe
Trusty, worthy of confidence. A SAFE card is a man who knows "what’s o’clock." A SAFE man among betters is one who is sure to fulfil his engagements.
sails
Nickname for the sail-maker on board ship.
saint
A piece of spoilt timber in a coach-maker's shop, like a saint, devoted to the flames.
saint geoffrey's day
Never, there being no saint of that name: tomorrow-come-never, when two Sundays come together.
saint luke's bird
An ox; that Evangelist being always represented with an ox.
saint monday
A holiday most religiously observed by journeymen shoemakers, and other inferior mechanics. A profanation of that day, by working, is punishable by a fine, particularly among the gentle craft. An Irishman observed, that this saint's anniversary happened every week.
sal
An abbreviation of SALIVATION. In a high sal; in the pickling tub, or under a salivation.
sal
A salary.—Theatrical.
salaam
A compliment or salutation.—Anglo-Indian.
salamander
A street acrobat and juggler who eats fire.
salesman's dog
A barker. Vide BARKER.
salmon-gundy
Apples, onions, veal or chicken, and pickled herrings, minced fine, and eaten with oil and vinegar; some derive the name of this mess from the French words SELON MON GOUST, because the proportions of the different ingredients are regulated by the palate of the maker; others say it bears the name of the inventor, who was a rich Dutch merchant; but the general and most probable opinion is, that it was invented by the countess of Salmagondi, one of the ladies of Mary de Medicis, wife of King Henry
salt
Lecherous. A salt bitch: a bitch at heat, or proud bitch. Salt eel; a rope's end, used to correct boys, &c. at sea: you shall have a salt eel for supper.
salt junk
Navy salt beef. See OLD HORSE.
salt-box
The condemned cell in Newgate.
saltee
A penny. Pence, &c., are thus reckoned:—
salve
Praise, flattery, chaff.
sam
I.e., DICKY-SAM, a native of Liverpool.
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