1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Part 11

BUTCHER'S DOG. To be like a butcher's dog, i.e. lie by the beef without touching it; a simile often applicable to married men.

BUTCHER'S HORSE. That must have been a butcher's horse, by his carrying a calf so well; a vulgar joke on an awkward rider.

b.u.t.t. A dependant, poor relation, or simpleton, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off; and who serves as a b.u.t.t for all the shafts of wit and ridicule.

b.u.t.tER BOX. A Dutchman, from the great quant.i.ty of b.u.t.ter eaten by the people of that country.

b.u.t.tERED BUN. One lying with a woman that has just lain with another man, is said to have a b.u.t.tered bun.

b.u.t.tER AND EGGS TROT. A kind of short jogg trot, such as is used by women going to market, with b.u.t.ter and eggs.--he looks as if b.u.t.ter would not melt in her mouth, yet I warrant you cheese would not choak her; a saying of a demure looking woman, of suspected character. Don't make b.u.t.ter dear; a gird at the patient angler.

b.u.t.tOCK. A wh.o.r.e. CANT.

b.u.t.tOCK BROKER. A bawd, or match-maker. CANT.

b.u.t.tOCK BALL. The amorous congress. CANT.

b.u.t.tOCK AND FILE. A common wh.o.r.e and a pick-pocket.

Cant.

b.u.t.tOCK AND Tw.a.n.g, or DOWN b.u.t.tOCK AND SHAM FILE. A common wh.o.r.e, but no pickpocket.

b.u.t.tOCK AND TONGUE. A scolding wife.

b.u.t.tOCKING SHOP. A brothel.

b.u.t.tON. A bad shilling, among coiners. His a-se makes b.u.t.tons; he is ready to bewray himself through fear. CANT.

BUZMAN. A pickpocket. CANT.

BUZZARD. A simple fellow. A blind buzzard: a pur-blind man or woman.

BYE BLOW. A b.a.s.t.a.r.d.

CABBAGE. Cloth, stuff, or silkpurloined by laylors from their employers, which they deposit in a place called h.e.l.l, or their EYE: from the first, when taxed, with their knavery, they equivocally swear, that if they have taken any, they wish they may find it in h.e.l.l; or, alluding to the second, protest, that what they have over and above is not more than they could put in their EYE.--When the s.c.r.o.t.u.m is relaxed or whiffled, it is said they will not cabbage.

CAB. A brothel. Mother: how many tails have you in your cab? how many girls have you in your bawdy house?

CACAFEOGO. A sh-te-fire, a furious braggadocio or bully huff.

CACKLE. To blab, or discover secrets. The cull is leaky, and cackles; the rogue tells all. CANT. See LEAKY.

CACKLER. A hen.

CACKLER'S KEN. A hen roost. CANT.

CACKLING CHEATS. Fowls. CANT.

CACKLING FARTS. Eggs. CANT.

CADDEE. A helper. An under-strapper.

CADGE. To beg. Cadge the swells; beg of the gentlemen.

CAFFAN. Cheese. CANT.

CAGG. To cagg; a military term used by the private soldiers, signifying a solemn vow or resolution not to get drunk for a certain time; or, as the term is, till their cagg is out: which vow is commonly observed with the strictest exactness. Ex. I have cagg'd myself for six months.

Excuse me this time, and I will cagg myself for a year. This term is also used in the same sense among the common people of Scotland, where it is performed with divers ceremonies.

CAG. To be cagged. To be sulky or out of humour. The cove carries the cag; the man is vexed or sullen.

CAG MAGG. Bits and sc.r.a.ps of provisions. Bad meat.

CAGG MAGGS. Old Lincolnshire geese, which having been plucked ten or twelve years, are sent up to London to feast the c.o.c.kneys.

CAKE, or CAKEY. A foolish fellow.

CALF-SKIN FIDDLE. A drum. To smack calf's skin; to kiss the book in taking an oath. It is held by the St.

Giles's casuists, that by kissing one's thumb instead of smacking calf's skin, the guilt of taking a false oath is avoided.

CALVES. His calves are gone to gra.s.s; a saying of a man with slender legs without calves. Veal will be cheap, calves fall; said of a man whose calves fall away.

CALVES HEAD CLUB. A club inst.i.tuted by the Independents and Presbyterians, to commemorate the decapitation of King Charles I. Their chief fare was calves heads; and they drank their wine and ale out of calves skulls.

CALIBOGUS. Rum and spruce beer, American beverage.

CALLE. A cloak or gown. CANT.

CAMBRIDGE FORTUNE. A wind-mill and a water-mill, used to signify a woman without any but personal endowments.

CAMBRIDGE OAK. A willow.

CAMBRADE. A chamber fellow; a Spanish military term.

Soldiers were in that country divided into chambers, five men making a chamber, whence it was generally used to signify companion.

CAMESA. A shirt or shift. CANT. SPANISH.

CAMP CANDLESTICK. A bottle, or soldier's bayonet.

CAMPBELL'S ACADEMY. The hulks or lighters, on board of which felons are condemned to hard labour.

Mr. Campbell was the first director of them. See ACADEMY and FLOATING ACADEMY.

CANARY BIRD. A jail bird, a person used to be kept in a cage; also, in the canting sense, guineas.

CANDLESTICKS. Bad, small, or untunable bells. Hark!

how the candlesticks rattle.

CANDY. Drunk. IRISH.