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.

Page  36C C C.Page  37

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.

Page  47

AN ALPHABETICAL Canting Dictionary. English before the Canting.

AAA.Page  48

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.Page  49

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.

Page  50D 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.Page  51

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.

Page  52III.

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.

Page  53NNN.

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

Page  54PPP.

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.

Page  55S 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.Page  56

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 Page  57Villanies, 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.