clump, to - degrees of beating

worm policeman

origin. It is said that a traveller passing through Mullingar was so

shove in the mouth, a glass of spirits

Tom and Jerry, a a drinking shop

drop into somebody, to give them an unprovoked beating

killing adjective of high commendation; outstanding; unique

a kind of conical shell adhering to ships bottoms. Hence a marine

Shitten Saturday corruption of "Shut-in Saturday"; the day between Good

struck with this pecularity in the local women that he determined to

top of Rome home (rhyming slang)

phrase used, with a sort of grim earnestness, by

bleary

Friday and Easter Sunday

foul language

buy the rabbit, to make a bad bargain; obtain a deal of trouble and inconvenience

cove or covey; a man or boy of any age

go over the stile, to to go for trial (rhyming slang)

dowry of parny, a a lot of rain

omee man-in-charge; governor; landlord (when used by

tradesman, and take any valuable articles and run away.

shed a tear, to to take a dram or glass of neat spirits; jocular

stun, to to astonish

ginger-hackled adj. -- having auburn or flaxen hair

fake the rubber, to stand treat in an extravagant manner

"Pray God," she said, "that he be neither beargeared, bleary, blued, primed, lumpy, top-heavy, moony, scammered, on the ran-tan, ploughed, muddled, obfuscated, swipy, kisky, sewed up nor all mops and brooms! Or that he hasnt lapped the gutter, cant see a hole in a ladder or been to Bungay Fair and lose both his legs!"

in your shoes?" "Faith, an what if I do?" said the girl. "Because,"

neddy, a a large quantity of commodity, as in "a neddy of fruit",

district

Moll

scammered

blackberry swagger a person who hawks tapes, bootlaces, etc.

bung landlord

take a fright night (rhyming slang)

"He ought to go to the vertical care-grinder!" she chived. "He ought to be marinated! Ill nｒeaｄ.９９ｃsw•ｃomever poll up with a liver-faced, chatty, beef-headed, cupboard-headed, culver-headed, fiddle-faced, glumpish, squabby dab tros like him again!

soush house (back slang)

fancy-bloke gentleman friend

catchy inclined to take undue advantage

poll up, to to live with a member of the opposite sex in a state of

bullyrag, to to abuse or scold violently; to swindle out of money

all mops and brooms

"a neddy of fish"

Spike Park the Queens Bench prison

Newgate fringe, a the collar of beard worn under the chin; so called from its indicating

spirits, taken neat by younger persons, usually bring

beargeared

dollymop, a a tawdrily dressed maid-servant, a

But what a flare-up in the soush! He dropped into her on the spot. Hed got a capital twist for a batty fang and he showed her it was dragging time; she was sick as a horse. He was a catchy fancy-bloke.

leather, to /

liver-faced adj. -- mean, cowardly

mendozy dear, darling; a term of endearment probably from

in half-mourning, to be to have sustained a black eye, or "mouse", in the course of a

Sharps Alley blood worms black puddings. Sharps Alley was very recently a

cream of the valley gin

On Shitten Saturday, the worms pinned that scaly shaver of hers in a Tom and Jerry for starring the glaze; he went over the stile at Spike Park and got topped.

Joe Savage cabbage (rhyming slang)

glumpish adj. -- of a stubborn, sulky temper (our hero certainly fits the

hazard drum, a gambling dens, where the honest escape

gooseberry pudden woman (rhyming slang)

I desire fire (rhyming slang)

A barnacled cove (a spoffy blackberry swagger with a Newgate fringe) from the top floor back sang out: "Knife it, you head beetler! Stow faking!" But got a stunning fag on the twopenny that sent him half-way to Albertopolis.

primed

water of life gin (from aqua vitae?)

bill here!)

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She had bought the rabbit with that slubberdegullion. He peppered her and clumped her and leathered her till she went flop down on the Rory OMore and then he stepped it for the frog and toad, to go to Joe Blake the Bartlemy.

flash it, to show it, to display ones wares

old topers. The origin may have been that ardent

rookeries a slow neighbourhood inhabited by dirty

streak, to to abscond

square, to to settle a bill

muddled

moony

snickert, a low alley way

windows at night on the chance of a catch

stunning adj. -- astounding

At his ruggy carser, his poll -- a killing, ginger-hackled skull-thatcher -- kept on the nose for her jomer.

sing out, to exclaim in a loud voice

hole in the ladder, to /

bolt, to to run away, escape

In the rookeries.

charitable

obfuscated

chive, to to shout

lumpy

hip, to to be offended

leg of a man being amputated

A Hopping Giles gets a bloody Jemmy on the cross of a cut-throat; the snotters crib belchers, birds eye wipes, blue billies and Randals men.

marinated, to be transported; from the salt pickling herrings undergo in Cornwall

bonneter, a one who induces another to gamble

hop the twig, to to run away; to leave someone in the lurch

a speel on the to take a trip to the country

leather fastened to the piece of glass cut out to keep it from

Ben Flake, a a steak (rhyming slang)

chatty adj. -- infested with lice

Bartlemy, to go to

carser house, home

poll young lady with whom a gentleman is having an

nab the rust, to to take offence

shoot the cat, to vomit

and hollow

barney the company

The Village, take a fright.

twopenny head

bone-grubber, a a person who hunts dust-holes, gutters,

lap the gutter, to

Rory OMore floor (rhyming slang)

ploughed drunkenness

streetwalker

glorious sinner dinner (rhyming slang)

He certainly had his hump up. He absquatulated. The bung cried: "Square the omee for the cream of the vall九九藏書ey!" But the splodger had mizzled with his half-a-grunter.

says the traveller, "that accounts for the calves of your legs coming

common sewer the throat

Irish and thieves

shivering-jemmy, a a begger who exposes himself, half-naked,

flare-up, a row

hook at the end, which he inserts into open

noted slaughtering place near Smithfield

Gill terms of disapprobation applied to females

out and out adj. -- first-rate; splendid

barnacled adj. -- applied to a wearer of spectacles (corruption of Latin

twist appetite, e.g. "Wills got a capital twist for a Ben Flake" or, in

dab tros bad sort (back slang)

have ones hump up, to to be in a fearful rage

storrac carrots (back slang)

fag blow

hieroglyphic verb "to be drunk" has the significant form of the

Village, the London

"Im fairly in half-mourning -- it wont fadge, it just wont fadge. He gives me the Jerry go Nimbles. Ill stun him -- Ill streak. Ill pick up my sticks and cut."

by some action

slubberdegullion worthless wretch

irregular relationship

ginnel, a still lower alley way

pepper, to

top-heavy

soldier

He hopped the twig on her.

topped, to be to be executed. Which the brute richly deserved

drum, to take

kisky

frog and toad main road (rhyming slang)

cut, to without notice; to do a "moonlight flit"

In every snickert and ginnel, bone-grubbers, rufflers, shivering-jemmies, anglers, clapperdogeons, peterers, sneeze-lurkers and Whip Jacks with their morts, out of the picaroon, fox and flimp and ogle.

down to feed on it."

swipy

stow faking, to to cease evil activity

Here the sloops of war and the dollymops flash it to spie a dowry of parny; there the bonneters cooled their longs and shorts in the hazard drums.

jomer sweetheart

give jessie, to to commit assault and battery upon someone

cupboard-headed an expression designating one whose head is both wooden

unmarried impropriety

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all-overish adj. -- sick, unwell, out of order

accost the first he met next. "May I ask," said he, "if you wear hay

antiscriptural adj - applied to oaths when they are composed of

Irish apricots potatoes

longs and shorts cards made for cheating

Jerry go Nimbles diarrhoea

spoffy adj. -- officious, intrusive

a landlord about himself)

not be able to see a

pick up ones sticks and to collect ones possessions and leave an establishment

dragging time the evening of a country fair day, when the young fellows begin

ophthalmic derangement

half-a-grunter sixpence

falling in and making a noise. Another plan is to cut the sash

water to their eyes

scaly adj. -- unpleasant, disgusting

pin, to to arrest, to apprehend

Glossary

vertical care-grinder treadmill

blast, to to curse

In a boozing ken in the Holy Land, a dunk-horned cutter -- a cock-eyed clack box in flashy benjamin and blood red fancy -- shed a tear by the I desire.

Joe Blake the to visit a low woman in a house of ill-repute

ruggy adj. -- frowsty, unclean

penniless, if at all

the valiant fighter, Mendoza

borrowed, in order to stir the sympathy of the

sloop of war, a whore (rhyming slang)

culver-headed adj. -- weak and stupid

angler, an a thief who goes about with a rod, having a

squabby adj. -- fat, short and thick

knife it, to to stop, to bring to a halt

Mullingar heifer said of a lady whose ankles are "beefy", or thick. A term of Irish

bed-fagot bed companion

clapperdogeon, a a beggar who uses children, either of his own or

cool, to to look, to look over (back slang)

pulling the wenches about

dumpling depot belly

mizzle, to to depart with great speed; to vanish

lose both legs, to Ancient Egyptian language, the determinative character of the

binnoculi?). Derived by some from the barnacle (Lepas Anatifera),

blued

fadge, it wont expression meaning "it just w九-九-藏-書ont do", or "it just wont work"

sewed up

on a cold day to obtain alms. This occupation

splodger lout

ruffler, a beggar pretending to be an old, maimed

skull-thatcher a straw-bonnet maker

he sells at the ragshops, or to the bone-

So she bolted and took a speel on the drum to the top of Rome.

Sometimes the glass is cut with a diamond, and a strip of

absquatulate, to depart from an establishment without paying ones

Albertopolis a facetious appelation given by Villagers to the Kensington Gore

tussle

and all likely spots for refuse bones, which

She had faked the rubber for her mendozy and got him up an out and out glorious sinner. There was an alderman in chains, a Ben Flake, a neddy of Sharps Alley blood worms, with Irish apricots, Joe Savace and storrac.

step it, to abscond

But when he got the water of life down the common sewer, he bullyragged so antiscripturally that the barney hipped and nabbed the rust.

sick as a horse popular simile denoting extreme ennui

shaver young person

alderman in chains, an a turkey hung with sausages

term for goggles, and for which they are used by sailors in a case of

batty fang, a a sound beating, a drubbing

the case of the hero of our anecdote, a capital twist for. . .

"This shove in the mouth makes me shoot the cat! Me dumpling depot is fair all-overish!"

fiddle-faced adj. -- applied to those with wizened countenances

the position of the rope when Jack Ketch operates

"You mouldy old bed-fagot, you rotten old gooseberry pudden, you ugly old Gill, you flea-ridden old moll!" he blasted. "Ill give you jessie, you Mullingar heifer!"

go to a Bungay Fair and to have reached the ultimate degree of intoxication. In the

beef-headed adj.-- stupid

by intimidation and sheer abuse

merchants

score

star the glaze, to to break the window or show-glass of a jeweller or other

on the nose, to be on the look-out

flop down, to go to collapse totally