The canting academy, or, The devils cabinet opened wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners, gilts, &c. : to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use : with several new catches and songs, compos'd by the choisest wits of the age ...

AN ALPHABETICAL Canting Dictionary. English before the Canting.

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A Curious wench	Rum Mort
An Apron	Belly cheat
An Instrument to break a door	Betty
A part or share	Earnest
An hole	Ferm
A Groat	Flag
A Receiver of stoln goods	Fencing Cully
A fine Gentlewoman	Gentry-Mort
A Door	Gigger
Any writing or Pass	Gybe
A Guiny, or Job	Huskie lour
A Little child	Kinchin
A Little man	Kinchin Cove
A private dwelling house	Libben
All manner of cloaths	Lurries
All sorts of Thieves	Priggs

Any sort of meat	Peck or Peckidge
Any Lace	Peak
A notorious Rogue	Ruffler
An Arm	Smiter
An Arse	Cracker
Andirons	Glimfenders
Agree with a man	Famgrasp the Cove
Angry	Glim flashy

B B B.

Bar-boy	Squeeker
Beadle of Bridewell	Floging Cove
Better	Benar
Bridewell	Naskin
Beggar born	Clapperdogeon
Boghouse or Privy	Croppinken
Bed	Libbedge
Bottle	Bounsing ckeat
Beg	Maund
Beggars	Maunders
Bread	Pannam
Be careful of what you say	Stow your whids and plant 'em
Bridle	Nabgirder
Bolts or Shackles	Cramprings
Body	Quarron
Base or Roguish	Queer
Bacon	Ruff peck
Bastard	Stall-whimper
Broker	Fencing Cully
Belated	Hoodwinks
Blind men	Gropers
Barn	Skippers
Bar of an Alehouse or Tavern.	Touting Ken

Be wary	Stow your whids
Brokers shop	Stallen-ken
Beaten	Chaft
Breast	Heaver

C C C.

Cart	Tumbler
Coach-beggars	Ratling Mumpers
Cloak-bag	Roger or Peeter
Cheat	Napper
Coach	Ratler
Chamber pot	Jockum-gage.
Coachman	Smacking-Cove
Constable	Harmanbeck
Candle stick	Glym-stick
Cut the Cloak-bag	Flick the Peeter
Corn	Grannam
Clusters of Grapes	Rum-boozing Welts
Carriers	Deuseavile Stampers
Choak'd	Frummagem'd
Crutch	Lifter or Plyer
Copulate	Wap or Jockum cloy
Country	Deuseavile
Counterfeit	Confeck
Crafty fellow	Clincher
Crust	Crakler
Cheese	Cash or Cassan
Chicken	Cackling-cheat
Cloak	Calle or Togeman
Cheat or cuzen	Bite
Church	Autem
Coat	Mish-topper
Cow	Mower.

D D D.

Drawers of Wine	Rum hoppers
Dog	Bughar
Drink	Booze
Drousie	Peeping
Dumb	Cank
Ditch	Jague
Day, or Day-break	Lightmans
Drunken	Nazy
Dry or thirsty	Chapt
Drunkard	Nazy-Cove
Duck	Quacking-cheat
Devil	Ruffin
Dish	Skew
Drover	Mow-heater

E E E.

Enter or go into an house	Dup
Eyes	Ogles or Glaziers
Ends of Gold and Silver	Spangles
Eggs	Cackling-farts

F F F.

Fellows that pick up people for transporta∣tion commonly called Spirits	Kidnappers
Face	Muns
Fool or Coxcomb	Nizie
Fearful	Peery
Fly or run	Bresh

Fop, or one that may ea∣sily be wrought upon	Cully
Fire	Glymmer.
Feet	Stampers.

G G G.

Gold	Mynt
Gentile Beggars	Mumpers
Goal	Naskin
Gallows	Trine
Gallant	Run••
Goldsmith	Ridgcully
Garden or Nosegay	Smelling cheat
Goes up the Stairs	Track up the Dancers
Give	Tip
Glass	Flicker
Gallows	Topping cheat
Glass broken	Flicker snapt.

H H H.

High-way	Topping Cove
High-way-men	Rum pad
Horse	Rum padders
Horse-stealer	Prancer
Head	Nab
Hat	Nab cheat
Half-penny	Make
House	Ken
Hands	Fambles
Hose	Drawers
Hostess	S•• pouch
Heart	Panter
Host	Bluffer.

III.

Ingage

Blot the Skrip.

KKK.

King of the Link-boys	Rum glimmer
Knavery	Queer topping

LLL.

Link-boy	Moon-curser, or Glym-Jack
Looking-glass	Peeper
London	Rumvile
L••gs	Stampers
Licence	Jukrum
Look through the Case∣ment	Tout through the Wicker
Lips	Gans
Lye	Coker

MMM.

Mass	Salomon
Mallard	Red-shank
Milk-pottage	Papplar
Money	Lour
Married Woman	Autem-Mort
Mad-men	Dommerars
Man	Cove.

NNN.

Nose	Gigg
Neck	Nuh
Newgate	Whit
Night or Evening	Darkman
Naked	Abram

OOO.

One that slips into an house in the dark and steals what he can lay hands on	Budge
One that creeps in at Casements and lets in others to rob the house	Glazier
One that filcheth com∣modities out of a shop under the pretence of Cheapning or Buy∣ing	Shoplift
One that lieth under∣neath a bed, or in some other covert place to watch an opportunity to rob the house	Snudge
One whose father is born a Begger	Palliard
O Q P on the stairs	Blow off on the Ground∣s••ll

PPP.

Pottage	Iap
Pork	Grunting peck
Pease	Trundlers
Partners to Files	Shoulder-shams
Peice of old Gold	Old Mr. Gory
Portmantue	Peeter
Prison	Queer Ken
Penny	Win
Picklock	Gilt
Pot or Pipe	Gage
Pretty	Dimber
Plague	Cannakin
Pox	Bube
Purse	Bung
Poor Fellow	Abram Cove

QQQ.

Question

Starter

RRR.

Rascal	Damber
Rings or Gloves	Famble cheats
Rich Coxcomb	Rum Cully
Ride	Prig
Riding	Prigging
Riders	Priggers
Rogue	Queer Cove.

S S S.

Shilling	Bord or Hog
Sheep	Bleating cheats
Steal the Portmantue	Bite the Roger
Shirt	Mish
Speak	Cut
Stockings	Drawers
Sucking Pig	Grunting cheat
Stocks	Harmans
Sixpence	Half a Hog
Silver	Witcher
Silver bowl	Witcher-bubber
Silver-smith	Witcher-cully
Straw	Strummel
Sheets	Slates
Stockings	Stock drawers
Shoes	Stamps
Shop	Swag
Sought after with a war∣rant	Romboyld
Sheep-stealer	Napper of Naps
Steal	Mill or Cloy
Seal	Jark

TTT.

Teeth	Crushing cheats
To lye	Couch
To go to sleep	Couch a Hog shead
To speak well	Cut ben whids
To speak ill	Cut queer whids
To be whipt	Cly the Jerk
Two penbe	Deuswins

Three pence	Treswins
Tobacco	Fogus
To take Tobacco	Raise a cloud
To beat	Fib
To spend or lay out	Fence
Teeth	Grinders
To rob an house	Heave a Booth
To tumble together	Lib
Transported	Marinate
To lay place or hide	Plant
Tongue	Prating cheat
To rune away	Pikes
To wear	Scour
To look out	Tour
To hang	Trine
The Sessions-house	Nubbing Ken
Turky	Cobble-colter.

Our Canting Alphabet will not extend a Letter farther then T, as far as I can find out; not know∣ing any Canting word beginning with Ʋ, X, Y, Z, although I have made a strict inquiry from some of the most notorious Professors hereof: I have con∣sulted likewise what is printed on this subject, and have slighted no help I could gather from thence, which indeed is very little; the greatest assistance I had in this discovery, was from Newgate; which with much difficulty I screw'd out of the sullen Rogues, who would not speak a word till I had suppled their tongues with the oil of Barley, or ra∣ther thaw'd their obstinate silence with the heat of strong Liquors.

From these I understood, that the Mode of Canting alter'd very often, and that they were for∣ced to change frequently those material words which chiefly discovered their mysterious practices and

Villanies, least growing too common their own words should betray them.

Here in this Vocabulary or little Canting Dicti∣onary, You have all or most of the old words which are still in use, and a many new never pub∣blished in print, and but very lately minted, such too which have passed the approbation of the Criti∣cal Canter. If I seem deficient in the quantity of words, let some else supply my defects, having collected words sufficiently enough for one, if you will have more, take the pains which I have done to be supplyed, and in the mean time be content with what is gathered to your hands.