AN ALPHABETICAL Canting Vocabulary. Canting before the English.

A A A.

AUtem	A Church
Autem Mort	A Married Woman
Abram	Naked
Abram Cove	A Poor Fellow

B B B.Page  35

Bluffer	An Host
Bounsing-cheat	A Bottle
Bughar	A Dog
Booz	Drink
Boozing-ken	A Tippling-house
Bord	A Shilling
Bung	A Purse
Been	Good or well
Beenshiply	Very well
Benat	Better
Bing	To go
Bing awast	To go away
Bube	The Pox.
As for Example,
The Mort hath tipt the Bube to the Cully.	The wench hath clapt the Fellow.
Bleating-cheat	A Sheep
Belly-cheat	An Apron
Betty	An Instrument to open a door.
Bite	To cheat or cozen
As bite the Cully, that is, pu• the Cheat on such a Fellow. Or the Cove was bit, The Man was cheated.
Bite the Roger	Steal the Portmanteau
Budge	One that steals Cloaks or ought else, slipping in∣to an house in the dark
Brush	To fly.
As the Cully is brush'd or rub'd, that is, He is march'd off, or broke.
Beenship	Worship
Bulk and File	The one jostles you up whilst the other picks your pocket.
Been darkmans	Good night.
Blower	One mans particular Wench.
Batner	An Oxe
Blow off on the Ground∣sils.	O. Q. P. on the Floar or Stairs
Blot the Skrip and jark it.	To be engaged or bound for any body.

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Coker	A lye
Cove, or Cuffin	A Man
Cuffin-Quire	A Justice of Peace
Cramprings	Bolts or Shackles
Chats	The Gallows
Cank	Dumb
Crackmans	Hedges
Calle or Togeman	A Cloak
Couch	To lie
Couch a hogshead	To go to sleep
Mish or Commission	A Shirt
Cackling cheat	A Chicken
Cassan	Cheese
Crashing cheats	Teeth
Cloy	To Steal
Cut	To Speak
Cut been whids	To Speak well
Cut quire whids	To Speak evilly
Confeck	Counterseit
Canakin	The Plague
Cly the jerk	To be whipt
Clapperdogeon	A Beggar born
Cully	A Fool or Fop
Colquarron	A Mans Neck
Croppinken	A Privy or Boghouse
Cracker	An Arse
Chaft	Beaten or bang'd
Clincker	A Crafty Fellow
Chap'd	Dry, or Thirsty
Cackling Farts	Eggs
Cobble-colter	A Turky

D D D.

Dimber	Pretty
Damber	Rascal
Drawers	Stockings
Duds	Goods
Deuseavile	The Country
Dommerar	A Mad man
Darkmans	Night or Evening
Dell or Doxy	A Wench
Deuswins	Two pence
Dup	To enter or go into an house,
As Dup the Ken, Enter the House, Dup the Booz∣ing-Ken, and booz a gage; go into the Ale-house and drink a pot.
Dancers	Stairs
Deuseavile-Stampers	Country Carriers

E E E.

Earnest	A part or share,
As for example, Tip me my Earnest, Give me my Share or Divident.

F F F.Page  38

Flicker	A Glass.
Flicker-snapt	A Glass broken
Flick	To Cut
As Flick me some Pannam and Cash; Cut me some Bread and Cheese
Flick the Peeter	Cut the Cloak-bag
Fam-grasp the Cove	To agree with an Adver∣sary.
Frummagen	Choak'd
Filch	A Staff with an hole in the end thereof, in which upon occasion, your Rogues will fasten an hook, to pull things cunning∣ly from an Hedge, or through a Casement.
Ferme	An hole
Fambles	Hands
Famble-cheats	Rings or Gloves
Flag	A Groat
Flog	To whip as in Bridewell,
As the Prancer drew the Quire Cove at the Crop∣ping of the Rotan through the Rum pads of the Rum vile, and was flog'd by the Nubbing-Cove. That is, The Rogue was drag'd at 〈◊〉 Carts-arse, through the chief streets of London, and was soundly whipt by the Hangman.
Fogus	Tobacco
As tip me a gage of Fogus, Give me a pipe of To∣bacco.
Fencing Cully	A Receiver of stoln Goods
Fib	To beat,
As Fib the Coves quarrons in the rum •ad for the lour in his burg. Beat the Man on the high-way for the money in his purse.
Flog'd at the Tumbler	Whipt at the Carts arse.
Fence	To spend
As Fence your Flag, Spend your Groat,
Floggin Cove,	The whipper of Bridewell, or any other that whips people commonly called at Dublin in Ireland Bellores.

Page  39G G G.

Gropers	Blind men
Glimflashy	Angry
Glimfenders	Andirons
Grunting peck	Porke
Glymmer	Fire
Glazyers.	Eyes
Grannam	Corn
Gentry Mert	A Gentlewoman
Gage	A pot or pipe
Grunting ch•at	A Sucking pig
Gigger	A Door
Gybe	Any writing or Pass
Glazyer	One that creeps in at case∣ments, or unrips glass windows to filch and steal.
Gilt	A Picklock,
Where note that some of them are so excellent at it, that they are furnished with all sorts of Gilts or Keys, f•o•n a Church door to the smallest Cabinet, and al∣most at first sight will dexterously open any door, t•unk, chest, or any lock whatever.
Glym Jack	A Link boy
Glym Stick	A Candlestick
Grinders	Teeth
Gigg	The Nose
As give him a rum snitch, or •••ichel the Gigg, that is, Fillip him on the Nose.

H H H.Page  40

Harmanbeck	A Constable
Harmans	The Stocks
Heave	To Rob,
As Heave a Booth, To rob an house
Half bord	Sixpence
Husky lour	A Guinny
Hog	A Shilling,
As for Example;
You Darkman-budge, will you fence your hog with me, at the next Boozing Ken. That is, d'ye hear you House-creeper, will you spend your shilling with me, at the next Alehouse.
Hoodwinkt	Beneghted or belated
Heaver	A Breast

I I I.

Jague	A ditch
Jark	A Seal
Jo•kum gage	A Chamber pot
Job	A Guinny

K K K.

Ken	An house
Kinchin	A little child
Kinchin Cove	A little man
Kidnapper	A fellow that walketh the streets, and takes all advantages to pick up the younger sort of people, whom with lies and many fair promises he inticeth on board a ship and tran∣sports them into forreign plantations.

L L L.Page  41

Lour	Money
Lightmans	Day, or Day-break
Libben	A private dwelling house
Lage	Water
Libbedge	A bed
Lap	Pottage
Lurries	All manner of cloaths
Lifter, or Plyer	A Crutch.

M M M.

Mow heater	A Drover
Mower	A Cow
Mish topper	A Coate
Maund	To beg
Maunders	Beggars
Margry Prater	An Hen
Mill	To Steal
Make	An half peny
Mynt	Gold
Muffling cheat	A Napkin
Mumpers	Gentile Beggars, Such as will not accept of Victuals, but money or cloaths, and these beg under the pretence of being decay'd Gentlemen, Tradesmen, or such who have been burn'd out or shipwrack'd
Milken	An house breaker
Muns	The Face,
As tout his Muns,	Mark his face well
Moon Cu•ser	A Link boy
Marinated	Transported into some sor∣reign Plantation.

N N N.Page  42

Nabgirder	A Bridle
Nubbing Ken	The Sessions house
Neck stamper	A Pot-boy
Napper of Naps	A Sheep-stealer
Nab	An Head
Nab-cheat	An Hat
Nap	To take, or cheat with the Dice, that is, by certainly securing one chance.
Naskin	A Goal, or Bridewell
Nazie	Drunken
Nazie Cove	A Drunkard
Nizie	A Fool or Coxcomb
Nub	The Neck
Nubbing	Hanging
Nubbing Cove	The Hangman
Nubbing cheat	The Gallows

O O O.

Ogles	Eyes
Old Mr Gory	A piece of Gold

P P P.Page  43

Panter	An heart
Prig-star	A Rival in love
Palliard	One whose Father is a born Beggar
Papplar	Milk pottage
Prats	Thighs
Prigg	To Ride
Prigging	Riding
Priggers of Prancers	Horse-stealers
Priggs	Are all sor•t of Thieves
Peck or Peckidg	Any sort of meat
Pannam	Bread
Plant	To lay, place, or hide
Prancer	An horse
Prating cheat	A Tongue
Peak	Any lace
Pike	To run
As Pi•e on the been,	Run for it as fast as you can.
Peery	Fearful
Peeter	A portmantle
Pad	The high-way
Plant your whids, and stow them,	Be careful what you say or speak
Prig-napper.	A Horse-stealer
Peeper	A Looking glass,
As track the Dancers and pikes with the Peep∣er, Go up the stairs and trip off with the Looking-glass.
Peeping	Drowsie, or Sleepy

Q Q Q.

Quarron	A Body
Quacking cheat	A Duck
Queer	Base or roguish
Queer Ken	A Prison
Queer Mert	A pockie Baggage
Queer Cove	A Rogue

R R R,Page  44

Rum gutlers	Canary wine,
As Rum hopper, tip us presently a Bounsing cheat of Rum gutlers; Drawer fill us presently a bottle of the best Canary.
Rum dropper	A Vintner
Rarling Cove	A Coatchman
Rum glimmar	King of the Link boys
Rumboyle	A Ward or Watch
Rum	Gallant
Rum Vile	London.
Ruffin	The Devil,
As the Ruffin nap the Cuffin-quier, and let the Harmanbeck trine with his Kinchins about his Colquarron; That is, Let the Devil take the Justice, and let the Constable hang with his chil∣dren about his neck.
Rum boozing Welts	A bunch of Grapes
Roger	A Cloak-bag
Ridgcully	A Goldsmith
Ruffler	A notorious Rogue
Ruff peck	Bacon
Redshank	A Mallard
Rum pad	The highway
Rum Padders	The better sort of High∣way men.
Rum Cully	A rich Coxcomb
Ratling Mumpers	Such who onely beg at Coaches.
Romboyl'd	Sought after with a War∣rant
Rum hopper	A Drawer

S S S.Page  45

Squeeker	A Bar-boy
Smacking Cove	Coachman
Scout	A Watch
Swag	A Shop
Smudge	One that lies underneath a bed, to watch an opportunity to rob the house.
Shoplift	One that filcheth Commo∣dities out of a Shop, under the pretence of cheapning or buying them of the Shop-keeper.
Stampers	Shooes
Stamps	Leggs
Stock-drawers	Stockings
Scoure	To wear
Skew	A Dish
Slate	A Sheet
Skipper	A Barnel
Shoulder sham	Partner to a File
Stam flesh	To Cant;
As the Cully Stams flesh rumly; He Cants very well
Stow your whids	Be wary
Stalling Ken	A Brokers shop, or an house that will recive stoln goods.
Smelling cheat	A Garden or Nosegay
Salomon	The Mass
Stow your Whids and plant 'em, for the Cove of the Ken can cant 'em,	Have a care what you say, the Man of the House understands you.
Smiter	An Arm
Stall whimper	A Bastard
Skrip	Paper,
As the Cully did freely blot the Skrip, and so tipt me forty Hogs; that is, One enter'd into bond with me for forty shillings.

TTT.Page  46

Touting Ken	A Tavern Bar
Trundlers	Pease
Tour	To look out
Track up the Dancers	Go up the Stairs
The Cul Snilches	The man eyes you
Tip the cole to Adam Tiler	Give your pick-pocket mo∣ney presently to your running Comrade.
Tip the Mish	Give the Shirt
Tib of the buttery	A Goose
Tip	To give
Trine	To hang: or Tyburn
Tick-rum	A Licence
Tres wins	Three pence
Toppin Cove	The Hangman
Tumbler	A Cart
Topping cheat	The Gallows

WWW.

Win	A penny
Wicher-cully	A Silver-smith
Whit	Newgate;
As five Rum padders are rub'd in the darkmans out of the Whit, and are pik'd into the Deusea∣vile: Five Highway men in the night broke New∣gate, and are gone into the Country.
Witcher	Silver
Witcher bubber	A Silver Bowl;
As for example, The Cull is pik'd with the Witch∣er bubber; The Rogue is March'd off with the Sil∣ver Bowl.
Witcher-tilter	A Silver-hilted sword
Wicket	A Casement;
As tout through the Wicket, and see where a Cul∣ly pikes with his Gentry Mort, whose Muns are the rummest I ever touted before: Look through the Casement, and see where the man walks with a Gentlewoman, whose face is the fairest I have ever seen.