| 18th Century Thieves Cant |
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| Household |
| Household : Bedrooms and Chambers |
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| DAB | a bed. | 1819 |
| DUNEGAN | A privy. A water closet. | 1811 |
| JOCKUM GAGE | A chamber-pot, jordan, looking-glass, or member-mug. CANT. | 1811 |
| JOCKUM-GAGE | a Chamberpot. Tip me the Jockum-Gage, Give or hand me the Looking-Glass. Rum Jockum-Gage, a Silver Chamber-P | 1737 |
| JORDAN | A chamber-pot. | 1811 |
| LIBBEGE | a Bed. | 1737 |
| LIBBEGE | A bed. CANT. | 1811 |
| LIG | A bed. See LIB. | 1811 |
| LOOKING-GLASS | a Chamber-pot. | 1737 |
| LOUSE TRAP | a Comb. | 1737 |
| MEMBER MUG | A chamber pot. | 1811 |
| OLIVERS SCULL | A chamber pot. | 1811 |
| OLIVERS SKULL | a Chamber Pot. | 1737 |
| PEEPER | A spying glass; also a looking-glass. Track up the dancers, and pike with the peeper; whip up stairs, and run off with the looking-glass. CANT. | 1811 |
| PEEPERS | a Looking-glass. Track the Dancers and Pike with the Peepers; Whip up the Stairs, and trip off with the Looking-glass. | 1737 |
| QUEERE-PEEPERS | old-fashioned, ordinary or common Looking glasses. | 1737 |
| REMEDY CRITCH | A chamber pot, or member mug. | 1811 |
| RUM PEEPERS | Fine looking-glasses. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM-PEEPERS | a Silver Looking-glass. | 1737 |
| SLAT | a Sheet. | 1737 |
| SPICE ISLANDS | A privy. Stink-hole bay or dilberry creek. The fundament. | 1811 |
| WASH | Paint for Faces. | 1737 |
| Household : Cups and Bowls |
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| CLANK | a Silver-tankard. | 1737 |
| JORUM | A jugg, or large pitcher. | 1811 |
| QUEERE-PEEPERS | old-fashioned, ordinary or common Looking glasses. | 1737 |
| RUM-CLANK | a large Silver Tankard. Tip me a Rum-Clank of Bowse; i.e. Give me a Double-tankard of Drink. | 1737 |
| WEDGE | Plate, or Silver or Gold Moveables and trinkets: Also Money. | 1737 |
| WITCHER-BUBBER | a Silver Bowl. The Cull is piked with the Witcher-bubber The Rogue is marched off with the Silver-bowl. | 1737 |
| Household : Household Building |
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| BACK-JUMP | A back-window. See JUMP. | 1819 |
| BACK-SLANG | to enter or come out of a house by the back-door; or, to go a circuitous or private way through the streets, in order to avoid any particular place in the direct road, is termed back-slanging it. | 1819 |
| CRIB | A house. To crack a crib: to break open a house. | 1811 |
| CRIB | a house, sometimes applied to shops, as, a thimblecrib, a watch-maker's shop ; stocking-crib, a hosier's, &c. | 1819 |
| DANCERS | Stairs. | 1737 |
| DANCERS | Stairs. | 1811 |
| GIGGER | a Door, Dub the Gigger, that we may ravage the Ken, i. e. Open the Door with the Pick-lock, that we go in and rob the House. | 1737 |
| GIGGER | A latch, or door. Dub the gigger; open the door. Gigger dubber; the turnkey of a jaol. | 1811 |
| GLAZE | a Window. | 1737 |
| GLAZE | A window. | 1811 |
| JIGGER | a door. | 1819 |
| PITTS PICTURE | A window stopt up on the inside, to save the tax imposed in that gentlemans administration. PARTY WIT | 1811 |
| WICKET | a Casement, also a little Door. As, Tout through the Wicket, and see where a Cully 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. | 1737 |
| Household : Jewellery, Trinkets and Watches |
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| BAUBELS | or BAWBLES; Jewels, Tweezers, Snuff-boxes, any sort of Gold or Silver Trinkets. | 1737 |
| BAWBELS, or BAWBLES | Trinkets; a mans testicles. | 1811 |
| FALLALLS | Ornaments, chiefly womens, such as ribands, necklaces, &c. | 1811 |
| GINGAMBOBS | Toys, bawbles; also a mans privities. See THINGAMBOBS. | 1811 |
| GINGUMBOBS | Toys or Baubles. | 1737 |
| LODGE | a Watch. As Files a Cly of a Lodge, or Scout, Pickt a Pocket of a Watch. Biting a Loge, or Scout, the same. | 1737 |
| MOVEABLES | Rings, Watches, Swords, and such Toys of Value. | 1737 |
| MOVEABLES | Rings, watches, or any toys of value. | 1811 |
| NICKNACKS | Toys, baubles, or curiosities. | 1811 |
| PIT | A watch fob. He drew a rare thimble from the swells pit. He took a handsome watch from the gentlemans fob. | 1811 |
| TRINKETS | Toys and Trifles. | 1737 |
| TRINKETS | Toys, bawbles, or nicknacks. | 1811 |
| WARMING-PAN | an old fashiond large Watch. A Scotch Warming-Pan; a She-bed-fellow. | 1737 |
| Household : Miscellaneous |
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| GLIMMER | Fire. | 1737 |
| GLIMMER | Fire. CANT. | 1811 |
| LULLIES | Wet linen. Cant. | 1811 |
| MUFFLING CHEAT | A napkin. | 1811 |
| MUFFLING-CHEAT | a Napkin. | 1737 |
| PED | a Basket. | 1737 |
| PED | A basket. CANT. | 1811 |
| SMELLING-CHEAT | a Nose-gay; also an Orchard or Garden. | 1737 |
| SUNNY-BANK | a good, rousing Winter-Fire. | 1737 |
| Household : Miscellaneous Adjectives |
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| FEEDER | A spoon. To nab the feeder; to steal a spoon. | 1811 |
| FEEDER | a spoon. | 1819 |
| FI'PENNY | a clasp-knife. | 1819 |
| Household : Related Terms |
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| DUB UP | to lock up or secure any thing or place ; also to button one's pocket, coat, (fc. | 1819 |
| Household : Tools and Candlesticks |
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| BACK-SLUM | a back room; also the back entrance to any house or premises; thus, we'll give it 'em on the back-slum, means, we'll get in at the backdoor. | 1819 |
| CHIVE | a Knife, File or Saw. | 1737 |
| CHIVE, or CHIFF | A knife, file: or saw. To chive the darbies; to file off the irons or fetters. To chive the bouhgs of the frows; to cut off womens pockets. | 1811 |
| GLIMFENDERS | Andirons. Rum Glimfenders, silver Andirons. | 1737 |
| GLIMFENDERS | Andirons. CANT. | 1811 |
| GLIMSTICK | a Candle-stick. Rum Glimsticks, Silver Candlesticks. Queer Glimsticks, Brass, Pewter or Iron Candlesticks. | 1737 |
| GLIMSTICK | A candlestick. CANT. | 1811 |
| MILL | A chisel. | 1811 |
| OS CHIVES | Bone handled Knives. | 1737 |
| OSCHIVES | Bone-handled knives. CANT. | 1811 |
| SAVE-ALL | A kind of candlestick used by our frugal forefathers, to burn snuffs and ends of candles. Figuratively, boys running about gentlemens houses in Ireland, who are fed on broken meats that would otherwise be wasted, also a miser. | 1811 |
