| 18th Century Thieves Cant |
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| Men |
| Men : Big and Small |
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| CHIT | a Dandyprat, or Durgen, a little trifling-Fellow. | 1737 |
| DANDY PRAT | An insignificant or trifling fellow. | 1811 |
| DANDYPRAT | a little puny Fellow | 1737 |
| DUMPLIN | A short thick man or woman. Norfolk dumplin; a jeering appellation of a Norfolk man, dumplins being a favourite kind of food in that county. | 1811 |
| JACK SPRAT | A dwarf, or diminutive fellow. | 1811 |
| JACK-SPRAT | a Dwarf, or very little Fellow, a Hop on my-thumb. | 1737 |
| KINCHIN COVE | a little Man. | 1737 |
| LIMBS | Duke of limbs; a tall awkward fellow. | 1811 |
| LOCKERAM-JAWED | Thin-faced, or lanthorn-jawed. See LANTHORN JAWED. | 1811 |
| LONG SHANKS | A long-legged person. | 1811 |
| LONG-SHANKS | long-legged. | 1737 |
| MACKAREL-BACK | a very tall, lank Person. | 1737 |
| RUNT | A short squat man or woman: from the small cattle called Welsh runts. | 1811 |
| SHRIMP | A little diminutive person. | 1811 |
| TOM THUMB | A dwarf, a little hop-omy-thumb. | 1811 |
| TOM-THUMB | a Dwarf or diminutive Fellow. | 1737 |
| URCHIN | a little sorry Fellow; also a Hedge-hog. | 1737 |
| Men : Cant |
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| SIR TIMOTHY | One who, from a desire of being the head of the company, pays the reckoning, or, as the term is, stands squire. See SQUIRE. | 1811 |
| Men : Cheats and Sharpers |
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| BOUNCE | a person well or fashionably drest, is said to be a rank bounce. | 1819 |
| Men : Clever and Sly |
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| CLINKER | a crafty Fellow | 1737 |
| DRY BOOTS | A sly humorous fellow. | 1811 |
| DRY-BOB | a smart or sharp Repartee. | 1737 |
| DRY-BOOTS | a sly, close cunning Fellow. | 1737 |
| FOX | a sharp, cunning Fellow. | 1737 |
| Fox | A sharp, cunning fellow. Also an old term for a sword, probably a rusty one, or else from its being dyed red with blood; some say this name alluded to certain swords of remarkable good temper, or metal, marked with the figure of a fox, probably the sign, or rebus, of the maker. | 1811 |
| SHAVER | A cunning Shaver; A subtle, smart Fellow. He shaves close; He gripes, squeezes, or extorts very severely. | 1737 |
| SHAVER | A cunning shaver; a subtle fellow, one who trims close, an acute cheat. A young shaver; a boy. SEA TERM. | 1811 |
| SHUFFLER | or Shuffling-Fellow; a slippery, shifting Fellow. | 1737 |
| SLY-BOOTS | a seeming silly, but subtle Fellow. | 1737 |
| TONGUE-PAD | a smooth, glib-tongued, insinuating Fellow. | 1737 |
| WHIPSTER | a sharp, or subtle Fellow. | 1737 |
| WILY | cunning, crafty, intriguing. | 1737 |
| Men : Clumsy, Stupid and Foolish |
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| BEN | a foolish Fellow, a Simpleton. | 1737 |
| BEN | A fool. Cant. | 1811 |
| BENISH | foolish, simple. | 1737 |
| BIRD-WITTED | hare-brained; not solid or stayed. | 1737 |
| BIRD-WITTED | Inconsiderate, thoughtless, easily imposed on. | 1811 |
| BLUNDERBUS | an awkward Fellow. | 1737 |
| BOTTLE-HEAD | void of Wit. | 1737 |
| BOTTLE-HEADED | Void of wit. | 1811 |
| BULLY-FOP | a maggot-pated, huffing, silly, rattling Fellow. | 1737 |
| BUZZARD | a foolish, soft Fellow, drawn in and culled or tricked. | 1737 |
| CAW-HANDED | awkward, not dextrous, ready or nimble. | 1737 |
| CAW-HANDED, or CAW-PAWED | Awkward, not dextrous, ready, or nimble. | 1811 |
| CLUNCH | a clumsy Clown, an awkward or unhandy Fellow. | 1737 |
| CLUNCH | An awkward clownish fellow. | 1811 |
| CODS HEAD | A stupid fellow. | 1811 |
| CODs-HEAD | a Fool. | 1737 |
| CONY | or Tom Cony; a silly Fellow; A meer Cony, very silly indeed. | 1737 |
| CULLY | a Fop, a Fool, one who is easily drawn in and cheated by Whores and Rogues | 1737 |
| CULLY | A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead. | 1811 |
| DRUMBELO | a dull, heavy Fellow. | 1737 |
| FAT HEADED | Stupid. | 1811 |
| GOOSE | or Goose cap; a Fool. A Taylors Goose roasted, a Red-hot smoothing Iron, to close the seams. Hot and heavy like a Taylors Goose. applied to a passionate Coxcomb. | 1737 |
| HANKTELO | a silly Fellow, a meer Codshead. | 1737 |
| HICK | any Person from whom a Booty is taken, a silly Country Fellow; a Booby. | 1737 |
| HICK | A country hick; an ignorant clown. CANT. | 1811 |
| HIGH SHOON, or CLOUTED SHOON | A country clown. | 1811 |
| HIGH-SHOON | or Clouted-Shoon; a Country Clown. | 1737 |
| HOB | a plain Country Fellow or Clown. | 1737 |
| HOB NAIL | a High-shoon or Country Clown. | 1737 |
| HOBINAL | the same [[as Hob]]. | 1737 |
| HOBNAIL | A country clodhopper: from the shoes of country farmers and ploughmen being commonly stuck full of hob-nails, and even often clouted, or tipped with iron. The Devil ran over his face with hobnails in his shoes; said of one pitted With the small pox. | 1811 |
| HULVER HEAD | a silly, foolish Fellow. | 1737 |
| HULVER-HEADED | Having a hard impenetrable head; hulver, in the Norfolk dialect, signifying holly, a hard and solid wood. | 1811 |
| JINGLE BRAINS | a Maggot-pated Fellow. | 1737 |
| JINGLE BRAINS | A wild, thoughtless, rattling fellow. | 1811 |
| LEATHER-HEAD | a Thick-skilld, heavy-headed Fellow. | 1737 |
| LOB-COCK | a heavy, dull Fellow. | 1737 |
| LOBCOCK | A large relaxed penis: also a dull inanimate fellow. | 1811 |
| NICK NINNY | A simpleton. | 1811 |
| NICK-NINNY | an emty Fellow, a meer Gods-head. | 1737 |
| NICKIN, NIKEY or NIZEY | A soft simple fellow; also a diminutive of Isaac. | 1811 |
| NICKUM-POOP | a Fool, also a silly, soft, uxorious Fellow. | 1737 |
| NICKUMPOOP, or NINCUMPOOP | A foolish fellow; also one who never saw his wifes ****. | 1811 |
| NIGIT | qu. an Ideot, i.e. a Fool. | 1737 |
| NIGMENOG | a very silly fellow. | 1737 |
| NIKIN | a Natural, or very soft Creature. | 1737 |
| NIZY | a Fool or Coxcomb. | 1737 |
| NOCKY | a silly, dull Fellow. | 1737 |
| NODDY | a Fool. Knave Noddy, a Game on the Cards. | 1737 |
| NODDY | A simpleton or fool. Also a kind of low cart, with a seat before it for the driver, used in and about Dublin, in the manner of a hackney coach: the fare is just half that of a coach, for the same distance; so that for sixpence one may have a set down, as it is called, of a mile and half, and frequently a tumble down into the bargain: it is called a noddy from the nutation of its head. Knave noddy; the old-fashioned name for the knave of trumps. | 1811 |
| NOKES | A ninny, or fool. John-a-Nokes and Tom-a-Stiles; two honest peaceable gentlemen, repeatedly set together by the ears by lawyers of different denominations: two fictitious names formerly used in law proceedings, but now very seldom, having for several years past been supplanted by two other honest peaceable gentlemen, namely, John Doe and Richard Roe. | 1811 |
| NUMBSCULL | A stupid fellow. | 1811 |
| OAF | A silly fellow. | 1811 |
| OAFISH | Simple. | 1811 |
| PIG-WIDGEON | a silly Fellow. | 1737 |
| PUT | A Country Put, a silly, shallow pated, Fellow. Put so it, beset. | 1737 |
| PUT | A country put; an ignorant awkward clown. To put upon any one; to attempt to impose on him, or to make him the but of the company. | 1811 |
| QUEERE-CULL | a Fop or Fool, a Cods-head; also a shabby poor Fellow. | 1737 |
| RALPH SPOONER | a Fool. | 1737 |
| RALPH SPOONER | A fool. | 1811 |
| RUM CULL | A rich fool, easily cheated, particularly by his mistress. | 1811 |
| RUM NED | A very rich silly fellow. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM-CULL | a rich Fool, that can be easily bit, or cheated by any body; also one that is very generous and kind to a Mistress. | 1737 |
| RUM-NED | a very silly Fellow. | 1737 |
| SAPSCULL | A simple fellow. Sappy; foolish. | 1811 |
| SHALLOW PATE | A simple fellow. | 1811 |
| SIMKIN | a Fool. | 1737 |
| SIMKIN | A foolish fellow. | 1811 |
| SIMPLETON | Abbreviation of simple Tony or Anthony, a foolish fellow. | 1811 |
| SINGLE-TEN | a very foolish, silly Fellow. | 1737 |
| SINGLETON | A very foolish fellow; also a particular kind of nails. | 1811 |
| SIR QUIBBLE-QUEERE | a trifling, silly shatter-brained Fellow; a meer Wittol or Punter, likewise a Whiffler. | 1737 |
| SOWSE CROWN | a Fool. | 1737 |
| SQUIRISH | foolish; also one that pretends to pay all Reckonings, and is not strong enough in the Pocket. | 1737 |
| TOM-CONY | a very silly Felow. | 1737 |
| TONY | a silly Fellow or Ninny. A meer Tony; a meer Simpleton. | 1737 |
| TONY | A silly fellow, or ninny. A mere tony: a simpleton. | 1811 |
| TOTTY-HEADED | giddy-headed, hare-brained. | 1737 |
| TOTTY-HEADED | Giddy, hare-brained. | 1811 |
| WIND-MILLS IN THE HEAD | empty Projects. | 1737 |
| WINDY-FELLOW | without Sense or Reason. | 1737 |
| WISE MAN OF GOTHAM | a Fool. | 1737 |
| WOOLLY-CROWN | a soft-headed Fellow. | 1737 |
| YEA-AND-NAY-MEN | a Phrase originally applied to Quakers; but now used for any simple Fellows. | 1737 |
| Men : Fat and Thin |
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| BACON FED | Fat, greasy. | 1811 |
| FALLEN AWAY FROM A HORSE LOAD TO A CART LOAD | A saying on one grown fat. | 1811 |
| GUNDIGUTS | a fat, pursy Fellow. | 1737 |
| GUNDIGUTS | A fat, pursy fellow. | 1811 |
| GUTS | a very fat, gross Person. | 1737 |
| LANTERN-JAWD | a very lean, thin-faced Fellow. | 1737 |
| LANTHORN-JAWED | Thin-visaged: from their cheeksbeing almost transparent. Or else, lenten jawed; i.e. having the jaws of one emaciated by a too rigid observation of Lent. Dark lanthorn; a servant or agent at court, who receives a bribe for his principal or master. | 1811 |
| LOCKRAM JAWD | thin, lean, sharp-visagd | 1737 |
| SCRAGGY | Lean, bony. | 1811 |
| SHOTTEN HERRING | A thin meagre fellow. | 1811 |
| SQUAB | a very fat, truss Person; a new-hatchd Chick; also a Couch. | 1737 |
| Men : Fighters, Bullies and Cowards |
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| BATTERED BULLY | an old well cudgelled and bruised huffing fellow. | 1737 |
| BLUSTRING Fellow | a rude ratling Hector. | 1737 |
| BOUNCER | a Bully. | 1737 |
| BULLY | a supposed Husband to a Bawd, or Whore; also a huffing Fellow, a pretended Bravo, but a Coward at the Bottom. | 1737 |
| CAPTAIN-HACKUM | a fighting, blustering Bully. | 1737 |
| DAMME BOY | A roaring, mad, blustering fellow, a scourer of the streets, or kicker up of a breeze. | 1811 |
| DAMME-BOY | a roaring, mad, blustring Fellow, a Scourer of the Streets. | 1737 |
| FLASH MAN | A bully to a bawdy house. A whores bully. | 1811 |
| FLASH-MAN | a favourite or fancy-man; but this term is generally applied to those dissolute characters upon the town, who subsist upon the liberality of unfortunate women; and who, in return, are generally at hand during their nocturnal perambulations, to protect them should any brawl occur, or should they be detected in robbing those whom they have picked up. | 1819 |
| HACKUM | a fighting Fellow. | 1737 |
| HACKUM | Captain Hackum; a bravo, a slasher. | 1811 |
| HECTOR | a vapouring, swaggering Coward. | 1737 |
| HECTOR | bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero. | 1811 |
| HUFF | a Bullying Fellow | 1737 |
| KNIGHT OF THE BLADE | a Hector or Bully. | 1737 |
| KNIGHT OF THE BLADE | A bully. | 1811 |
| RANTIPOLE | a rude wild Boy or Girl. | 1737 |
| RANTIPOLE | A rude romping boy or girl; also a gadabout dissipated woman. To ride rantipole; the same as riding St. George. See ST. GEORGE. | 1811 |
| Men : Hard and Soft |
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| COCK ROBIN | A soft, easy fellow. | 1811 |
| COCK-ROBBIN | a soft easy Fellow. | 1737 |
| CORK-BRAIND | a very impudent, hardend, brazen-faced Fellow. | 1737 |
| CORK-BRAINED | Light-headed, foolish. | 1811 |
| COURT CARD | A gay fluttering coxcomb. | 1811 |
| COURT-CARD | a gay, fluttering Fellow | 1737 |
| SKIN FLINT | An avaricious man or woman, | 1811 |
| SKIN-FLINT | a griping, sharping, close-fisted Fellow. | 1737 |
| TURK | any cruel hard-hearted Man. | 1737 |
| Men : Husbands and Wives |
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| FREEHOLDER | he whose Wife goes with him to the Alehouse. | 1737 |
| FREEHOLDER | He whose wife accompanies him to the alehouse. | 1811 |
| HEN-PECKT-FRIGOT | whose Commander and Officers are absolutely swayed by their Wives. | 1737 |
| HENPECT-HUSBAND | whose Wife wears the Breeches. | 1737 |
| Men : Insult/Negative Description |
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| BOLTER OF WHITE FRYARS | one that peeps out, but dares not venture abroad. | 1737 |
| BOUNCE | as a meer Bounce, a swaggering Fellow. | 1737 |
| BY-BLOW | a Bastard. | 1737 |
| BYE BLOW | A bastard. | 1811 |
| CARRY THE KEG | a man who is easily vexed or put out of humour by any joke passed upon him, and cannot conceal his chagrin, is said to carry the keg, or is compared to a walking distiller. | 1819 |
| CRUSTY BEAU | One that uses paint and cosmetics, to obtain a fine complexion. | 1811 |
| CRUSTY-BEAU | one that lies with a Cover over his Face all Night, and uses Washes, Paint, etc. | 1737 |
| DUNGHILL | A coward: a cockpit phrase, all but gamecocks being styled dunghills. To die dunghill; to repent, or shew any signs of contrition at the gallows. Moving dunghill; a dirty, filthy man or woman. Dung, an abbreviation of dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors wages, therefore deemed by the flints a coward. See FLINTS. | 1811 |
| HE CRIMPS IT | He plays booty. A crimping Fellow, a sneaking Cur. | 1737 |
| HOG GRUBBER | A mean stingy fellow. | 1811 |
| HOG-GRUBBER | a close-fisted, narrow sould sneaking Fellow. | 1737 |
| JEW | any over-reaching Dealer, or hard sharp Fellow. He treated me like a Jew; He used me very barbarously. | 1737 |
| LOLLPOOP | A lazy, idle drone. | 1811 |
| LOLPOOP | a lazy, idle Drone. | 1737 |
| LOVE BEGOTTEN CHILD | A bastard. | 1811 |
| MERRY-BEGOTTEN | A bastard. | 1811 |
| MOUTH | a noisy Fellow. Mouth half cockt, gaping and staring at every Thing they see. | 1737 |
| MOUTH | A noisy fellow. Mouth half cocked; one gaping and staring at every thing he sees. To make any one laugh on the wrong, or tother side of his mouth; to make him cry or grieve. | 1811 |
| MOUTH | A silly fellow. A dupe. To stand mouth; i.e. to be duped. | 1811 |
| NIFFYNAFFY FELLOW | A trifler. | 1811 |
| PRINCOCK | a pert, forward Fellow. | 1737 |
| SCALY | Mean. Sordid. How scaly the cove is; how mean the fellow is. | 1811 |
| SLUBBER-DEGULLION | a slovenly, dirty, nasty Fellow. | 1737 |
| SPUNGING FELLOW | one that lives upon the rest, and pays nothing. | 1737 |
| STALL-WHIMPER | a Bastard. | 1737 |
| TENDER-PARNEL | a very nicely educated Creature, apt to catch cold on the least Puff of Wind. | 1737 |
| TITTER-TOTTER | one ready to reel, at every Jog, or Blast of Wind. | 1737 |
| TOM-LONG | tedious; as Come by Tom Long the Carrier; of what is very long a coming. | 1737 |
| VAIN-GLORIOUS | or Ostentatious Man, one that boasts without Reason, or, as the Canters say, pisses more than he drinks. | 1737 |
| WHISK | a little inconsiderable, impertinent Fellow. | 1737 |
| WHORES KITLING | or Whores Son; a Bastard. | 1737 |
| ZLOUCH | or Slouch; a slovenly ungenteel Man. | 1737 |
| Men : Lovers and Lechers |
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| BUCK FITCH | A lecherous old fellow. | 1811 |
| BUCK-FITCHES | old leacherous Fellows. | 1737 |
| COLTS TOOTH | An old fellow who marries or keeps a young girl, is said to have a colts tooth in his head. | 1811 |
| DARK CULLY | a married Man, who keeps a Mistress, and creeps to her in the Night, for fear of Discovery. | 1737 |
| DARK CULLY | A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery. | 1811 |
| DUDDERING RAKE | a thundering Rake, or of the first Rank, one devilishly lewd. | 1737 |
| DUDDERING RAKE | A thundering rake, a buck of the first head, one extremely lewd. | 1811 |
| GOAT | a Letcher, or very lascivious Person. | 1737 |
| GOAT | A lascivious person. Goats jigg; making the beast with two backs, copulation. | 1811 |
| HELL-BORN BABE | A lewd graceless youth, one naturally of a wicked disposition. | 1811 |
| HELL-BORN-BABE | a lewd, graceless, notorious Youth. | 1737 |
| HELL-HOUND | a profligate, lewd Fellow. | 1737 |
| HORN MAD | stark staring mad because Cuckolded. | 1737 |
| HORN MAD | A person extremely jealous of his wife, is said to be horn mad. Also a cuckold, who does not cut or breed his horns easily. | 1811 |
| MAN OF THE TOWN | A rake, a debauchee. | 1811 |
| MAN OTH TOWN | a lewd Spark, or very Debauchee. | 1737 |
| MUTTON MONGER | a Lover of Women; also a Sheep-stealer. | 1737 |
| MUTTON MONGER | A man addicted to wenching. | 1811 |
| PETTICOAT PENSIONER | a Gallant maintained for secret Service. | 1737 |
| PETTICOAT PENSIONER | One kept by a woman forsecret services. | 1811 |
| RAKE | Rake-hell, Rake shame; a lewd Spark or Debauchee. | 1737 |
| RAKE, RAKEHELL, or RAKESHAME | A lewd, debauched fellow. | 1811 |
| SATYR | A libidinous fellow: those imaginary things are by poets reported to be extremely salacious. | 1811 |
| SON OF VENUS | a Lover of Women. | 1737 |
| TOP Diver | a Lover of Women. | 1737 |
| TOP DIVER | A lover of women. An old top diver; one who has loved old hat in his time. | 1811 |
| TOWN-BULL | one that rides all the Women he meets. | 1737 |
| Men : Men in General |
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| COFE | as COVE. Which See. | 1737 |
| COVE | a Man, a Fellow; also a Rogue. The Cove was Bit; The Rogue was out-sharped or out-witted. The Cove has bit the Cole; The Rogue has stollen the Money. That Coves a rum Diver; That Fellow is a clever Pick-pocket. | 1737 |
| COVE | A man, a fellow, a rogue. The cove was bit; the rogue was outwitted. The cove has bit the cole; the rogue has got the money. CANT. | 1811 |
| COVE | the master of a house or shop, is called the Cove; on other occasions, when joined to particular words, as a cross-cove, a flask-cove, a leary-cove, &c., it simply implies a man of those several descriptions; sometimes, in speaking of any third person, whose name you are either ignorant of, or don't wish'to mention, the word cove is adopted by way of emphasis, as may be seen under the word Awake. | 1819 |
| CUFFIN | a Man. | 1737 |
| CUFFIN | A man. | 1811 |
| CULL | a Man, either honest, or otherwise. A Bob-Cull, a Sweet-humourd Man to a Wench. The Cull naps us; The Person robbd apprehends us. A curst Cull, an ill-naturd Fellow, a Churl to a Woman. | 1737 |
| CULL | A man, honest or otherwise. A bob cull; a good- natured, quiet fellow. CANT. | 1811 |
| Men : Miscellaneous Adjectives |
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| GLASS EYES | A nick name for one wearing spectacles. | 1811 |
| Men : Old, Young and Novice |
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| COLT-BOWLER | a raw or unexperienced Person | 1737 |
| GREEN HEAD | a very raw Novice, or unexperienced Fellow. | 1737 |
| OLD TOAST | a brisk old Fellow. | 1737 |
| OLD TOAST | A brisk old fellow. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUSTY GUTS | A blunt surly fellow: a jocular misnomer of RESTICUS. | 1811 |
| RUSTYGUTS | an old blunt Fellow. | 1737 |
| WHIPPER-SNAPPER | a very small sprightly Boy. | 1737 |
| Men : Physical Descriptions |
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| BAG OF NAILS | He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails. The old BAG OF NAILS at Pimlico; originally the BACCHANALS. | 1811 |
| BLUFF | (to look) To look big or like Bull-beef. | 1737 |
| BLUFF | Fierce, surly. He looked as bluff as bull beef. | 1811 |
| CARROTTY-PATED | Ginger-hackled, red-haired. See GINGER-HACKLED. | 1811 |
| CLUMP | A lump. Clumpish; lumpish, stupid. | 1811 |
| CLUMPISH | Lumpish. | 1737 |
| GROPERS | blind Men. | 1737 |
| LORD | a very crooked deformed, or ill-shapen Person. | 1737 |
| LORD | A crooked or hump-backed man. These unhappy people afford great scope for vulgar raillery; such as, Did you come straight from home? if so, you have got confoundedly bent by the way. Dont abuse the gemman, adds a by-stander, he has been grossly insulted already; dont you see his backs up? Or someone asks him if the show is behind; because I see, adds he, you have the drum at your back. Another piece of vulgar wit is let loose on a deformed person: If met by a party of soldiers on their march, one o | 1811 |
| NOCKY BOY | A dull simple fellow. | 1811 |
| PRICKEARD Fellow | a Crop whose Ears are longer than his Hair. | 1737 |
| ROSY GILLS | One with a sanguine or fresh-coloured countenance. | 1811 |
| ROSY-GILLS | sanguine or fresh colourd | 1737 |
| SHAMBLE-LEGGD | one that goes wide, and shuffles his Feet about. Shake your Shambles; Haste, be gone. | 1737 |
| SQUINTE-FUEGO | one that squints very much. | 1737 |
| TO LOOK LIKE BULL BEEF | to look big and grim. | 1737 |
| ZAD | crooked, like the letter Z; as, A meer Zad, used of any bandy-leggd, crouch-backd or deformed Person. | 1737 |
| Men : Poor and Ragged |
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| BUSHY-PARK | a man who is poor is said to be at Bushy park, or in the park. | 1819 |
| CAPTAIN QUEERNABS | A shabby ill-dressed fellow. | 1811 |
| CAPTAIN-QUEERNABS | a Fellow in poor Cloaths, or Shabby. | 1737 |
| HEATHEN PHILOSOPHER | a sorry poor tattered Fellow, whose Breech may be seen through his Pocket-holes. | 1737 |
| HEATHEN PHILOSOPHER | One whose breech may be seen through his pocket-hole: this saying arose from the old philosophers, many of whom depised the vanity of dress to such a point, as often to fall into the opposite extreme. | 1811 |
| LANSPRESADO | He that comes into Company with but Two-pence in his Pocket. | 1737 |
| LANSPRISADO | One who has only two-pence in his pocket. Also a lance, or deputy corporal; that is, one doing the duty without the pay of a corporal. Formerly a lancier, or horseman, who being dismounted by the death of his horse, served in the foot, by the title of lansprisado, or lancepesato, a broken lance. | 1811 |
| OUT AT HEELS, OR OUT AT ELBOWS | In declining circumstances. | 1811 |
| OUT-AT-HEELS | or elbows; in a declining Condition going down the Wind. | 1737 |
| PICKAROON | a very shabby poor Fellow. | 1737 |
| QUEERE-DUKE | a poor decayed Gentleman, also a lean, thin, half-starved Fellow. | 1737 |
| RAGAMUFFIN | a Taterdemallion. | 1737 |
| RAGAMUFFIN | A ragged fellow, one all in tatters, atatterdemallion. | 1811 |
| SCRUB | a Ragamuffin. | 1737 |
| SCRUB | A low mean fellow, employed in all sorts of dirty work. | 1811 |
| SHABBAROON | An ill-dressed shabby fellow; also a mean- spirited person. | 1811 |
| SHABBEROON | a Ragamuffin. | 1737 |
| SHAG-BAG | a poor shabby Fellow. | 1737 |
| SHAG-BAG, or SHAKE-BAG | A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit. | 1811 |
| WILLOW | poor, and of no Reputation. | 1737 |
| Men : Praise/Positive Description |
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| BANG UP | (WHIP.) Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up cove; a dashing fellow who spends his money freely. To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style: as the swells rattler and prads are bang up prime; the gentleman sports an elegant carriage and fine horses. | 1811 |
| BANG-UP | A person, whose dress or equipage is in the first style of perfection, is declared to be bang up to the mark. A man who has behaved with extraordinary spirit and resolution in any enterprise he has been engaged in, is also said to have come bang up to the mark; any article which is remarkably good or elegant, or any fashion, act, or measure which is carried to the highest pitch, is likewise illustrated by the same emphatical phrase. | 1819 |
| BENE COVE | A good fellow. Cant. | 1811 |
| BENE-COVE | a good Fellow, a merry companion. | 1737 |
| BLEEDING CULLY | One who parts easily with his money, or bleeds freely. | 1811 |
| BLEEDING-CULLY | an easy Fellow, this is profuse with his Money, or persuaded to support all the Exravaganies of his Companion or Mistress, at his own Expence. | 1737 |
| BUCK | as a Bold Buck. | 1737 |
| BUCK | A blind horse; also a gay debauchee. | 1811 |
| DEFT FELLOW | a tidy, neat, little Man | 1737 |
| DEFT FELLOW | A neat little man. | 1811 |
| DIMBER-COVE | a pretty Fellow. | 1737 |
| GENTRY COVE | A gentleman. CANT. | 1811 |
| GENTRY-COVE | a Gentleman. | 1737 |
| KNAVE IN GRAIN | one of the First Rate. | 1737 |
| KNAVE IN GRAIN | A knave of the first rate: a phrase borrowed from the dyehouse, where certain colours are said to be in grain, to denote their superiority, as being dyed with cochineal, called grain. Knave in grain is likewise a pun applied to a cornfactor or miller. | 1811 |
| RUM DUKE | A jolly handsome fellow; also an odd eccentric fellow; likewise the boldest and stoutest fellows lately among the Alsatians, Minters, Savoyards, and other inhabitants of privileged districts, sent to remove and guard the goods of such bankrupts as intended to take sanctuary in those places. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM-DUKE | a jolly handsome Man, Rum-Dukes, the boldest or stoutest Fellows (lately) amongst the Alsatians, Minters, Sawyards, etc. sent for to remove and guard the Goods of such Bankrupts as intended to take Sanctuary in those Places. | 1737 |
| SIR TIMOTHY | one that treats every Body, and pays the Reckonings every where. | 1737 |
| TERCEL GENTLE | a Knight or Gentleman of a good Estate; also any rich Man. | 1737 |
| TOPPING-FELLOW | who has reachd the Pitch and greatest Eminence in any Art; the Master, and the Cock of his Profession. | 1737 |
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| CHUM | A chamber-fellow, particularly at the universities and in prison. | 1811 |
| CHUM | a fellow prisoner in a jail, hulk, &c.; so there are new chums and old chums, as they happen to have been a short or a long time in confinement. | 1819 |
| CREATURES | Men raised by others, and their Tools ever after. | 1737 |
| FLASH | a person who affects any peculiar habit, as swearing, dressing in a particular manner, taking snuff, &c., merely to be taken notice of, is said to do it out of flash. | 1819 |
| FOREMAN OF THE JURY | One who engrosses all the talk to himself, or speaks for the rest of the company. | 1811 |
| FORMAN OF THE JURY | one that engrosses all the Talk to himself. | 1737 |
| HOBBY | as Sir Posthumus Hobby, one that draws on his Breeches with a Shoeing-horn; a Fellow that is nice and whimsical in the Set of his Cloaths | 1737 |
| HOBBY | Sir Posthumouss hobby; one nice or whimsical in his clothes. | 1811 |
| TOOL | an Implement fit for any Turn, the Creature of any Cause or Faction; a meer Property, or Cats Foot. | 1737 |
| TURN-COAT | he that quits one and embraces another Party. | 1737 |
| Men : Shirts, Shifts and Petticoats |
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| BENISH | Foolish. | 1811 |
