Compiled by Richard Head. 8 The Gipseys were not long in the country before they found native imitators. KNOCKING-SHOP, a brothel, or disreputable house frequented by prostitutes. Contain numerous vulgarisms and slang phrases. Attractive fashionable man in modern parlance crossword. Slang and Gibberish in the Gipsey language are synonymous; but, as English adoptions, have meanings very different from that given to them in their original. 37 See Notes and Queries, vol. "In almost every one of the padding-kens, or low lodging-houses in the country, there is a list of walks pasted up over the kitchen mantel piece.
NABOB, an Eastern prince, a retired Indian official, —hence a slang term for a capitalist. FAKING implying anything that may be going on. SCRAPING CASTLE, a water-closet. SPLICE THE MAIN BRACE, to take a drink. Attractive fashionable man in modern parlance. CLOUT, or RAG, a cotton pocket handkerchief. With much cleverness Mr. Bede has seized the salient points of the new art. DING, to strike; to throw away, or get rid of anything; to pass to a confederate. Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Brome, and other play-writers, occasionally put cant words into the mouths of their low characters, or employed old words which have since degenerated into vulgarisms. OTTOMY, a thin man, a skeleton, a dwarf.
YACK, a watch; to "church a YACK, " to take it out of its case to avoid detection. GIBBERISH, the language of Gipseys, synonymous with Slang. Term in general use amongst costermongers, cabmen, and old-fashioned people. KISKY, drunk, fuddled. It received its title from its similarity in shape to one of the vestments of a cardinal. 6 The word Slang, as will be seen in the chapter upon that subject, is purely a Gipsey term, although now-a-days it refers to low or vulgar language of any kind, —other than cant. From the Old cant, RUM. WHOPPER, a big one, a lie. HOUSE OF COMMONS, a water-closet. Nonetheless, there are some tasty answers like FRAPPE (a term that we who grew up in New England understand to mean what most other Americans would call a milkshake - that is, it has ice cream in it). Corruption of "that is not etiquette, " by adding, in vulgar pronunciation, th to the first e of etiquette; or, perhaps, from TICKET, a bill or invoice.
PENNY GAFFS, shops turned into temporary theatres (admission one penny), where dancing and singing take place every night. "The murderer's signal is even exhibited from the gallows; as a red handkerchief held in the hand of the felon about to be executed is a token that he dies without having betrayed any professional secrets. " TOPS, dying speeches and gallows broadsides. ALL-THERE, in strict fashion, first-rate, "up to the mark;" a vulgar person would speak of a spruce, showily-dressed female as being ALL-THERE. "Nab" was a head, —low people now say NOB, the former meaning, in modern Cant, to steal or seize. Turner gives OCHUS BOCHUS, an old demon. MUNGARLY CASA, a baker's shop; evidently a corruption of some Lingua Franca phrase for an eating house. "—Boots at the Swan. But it was Grose, burly, facetious Grose, who, in the year 1785, collected the scattered glossaries of Cant and secret words, and formed one large work, adding to it all the vulgar words and Slang terms used in his own day. PANNY, a house—public or otherwise; "flash PANNY, " a public-house used by thieves; PANNY MEN, housebreakers. DASHING, showy, fast. London, V. D. Some of this author's novels, such as Rookwood and Jack Sheppard, abound in cant words, placed in the mouths of the highwaymen.
BULGER, large; synonymous with BUSTER. Curiously enough, the name that year which happened to be last was WEDGEWOOD (a distinguished Wrangler). SAW YOUR TIMBER, "be off! " "Mr. Hollingshead has lost nothing of his dramatic power. APPLE PIE ORDER, in exact or very nice order.
"—Globe, Dec. 8, 1859. QUARTERLY REVIEW, vol. But the Gipseys, their speech, their character—bad enough as all the world testifies—their history and their religious belief, have been totally disregarded, and their poor persons buffeted and jostled about until it is a wonder that any trace of origin or national speech exists in them. FROW, a girl, or wife. PEELER, a policeman; so called from Sir Robert Peel (see BOBBY); properly applied to the Irish constabulary rather than the City police, the former force having been established by Sir Robert Peel. YELLOW-MAN, a yellow silk handkerchief. PLUCKED, turned back at an examination. TINGE, the percentage allowed by drapers and clothiers to their assistants, upon the sale of old-fashioned articles. The terms CANT and CANTING were doubtless derived from chaunt or chaunting, —the "whining tone, or modulation of voice adopted by beggars, with intent to coax, wheedle, or cajole by pretensions of wretchedness. " BLUE MURDER, a desperate or alarming cry. Hugh Stowell) Lecture on Manliness, 12mo. NYT Crossword Answers for November 10 2021 - FAQs. GAME, a term variously applied; "are you GAME? " VERTICAL-CARE-GRINDER, the treadmill.
BULL, a crown piece; formerly, BULL'S EYE. A half crown, in medical student slang, is a FIVE-POT PIECE. KERTEVER-CARTZO, the venereal disease. LEXICON Balatronicum; a Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, by a Member of the Whip Club, assisted by Hell-fire Dick, 8vo. MORNINGS AT BOW STREET, by T. Wright, 12mo, with Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
CHURCHWARDEN, a long pipe, "A YARD OF CLAY. A fellow purposely dropped a ring, or a pocket book with some little articles of jewellery, &c., in it, and when he saw any person pick it up, ran to claim half. CLAP, to place; "do you think you can CLAP your hand on him? " OUT AND OUT, prime, excellent, of the first quality.
"—Back slang, but general. SLOPE, to decamp, to run, or rather slip away. By this injunction of light and mercury, both bodies became fixed, and produced a third different to either, to wit, real gold. FRONTISPIECE, the face. EGG, or EGG on, to excite, stimulate, or provoke one person to quarrel with another, &c. Cor. So forcibly did this truth impress a late writer, that he wrote in a popular journal, "You may hear Slang every day in term from barristers in their robes, at every mess-table, at every bar-mess, at every college commons, and in every club dining-room. "
JACKETING, a thrashing. ALL TO PIECES, utterly, excessively; "he beat him ALL TO PIECES, " i. e., excelled or surpassed him exceedingly. BANYAN-DAY, a day on which no meat is served out for rations; probably derived from the BANIANS, a Hindoo caste, who abstain from animal food. Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.
For the truth of which FACT I refer to the memoirs of the French Academy of Sciences. HIP OUTSIDE, outside coat pocket. DEAD HORSE, "to draw the DEAD HORSE, " DEAD-HORSE work, —working for wages already paid; also any thankless or unassisted service. Used by Shakespere, but now heard only in the streets. "Alybbeg" no longer means a bed, nor "ASKEW" a cup. A correspondent suggests that the term may come from the brass ladles for collecting money, always carried by the sweeps' ladies. DUMMY, a pocket book.
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