| 18th Century Thieves Cant |
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| Animals |
| Animals : Birds |
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| BIDDY | a Chicken. | 1737 |
| BIDDY, or CHICK-A-BIDDY | A chicken, and figuratively a young wench. | 1811 |
| BUBBLY JOCK | A turkey cock. SCOTCH. | 1811 |
| CACKLER | A hen. | 1811 |
| CACKLING CHEATS | Fowls. CANT. | 1811 |
| CACKLING-CHEATS | Chickens, Cocks or Hens. | 1737 |
| CAPON | A castrated cock, also an eunuch. | 1811 |
| CARRIERS | Pigeons which carry expresses. | 1811 |
| CHURCH WARDEN | A Sussex name fora shag, or cormorant, probably from its voracity. | 1811 |
| COBBLE COLTER | A turkey. | 1811 |
| COBBLE-COLTER | a Turkey. A rum Cobble-colter, a fat large Cock-Turkey. | 1737 |
| GALANEY | a fowl. | 1819 |
| GOBBLER | a Turkey-Cock. | 1737 |
| GOBBLER | A turkey cock. | 1811 |
| MARGERY PRATER | a Hen. | 1737 |
| MARGERY PRATER | A hen. CANT. | 1811 |
| QUACKING CHEAT | A duck. | 1811 |
| QUACKING-CHEAT | a Duck. | 1737 |
| ROGER, or TIB OF THE BUTTERY | A goose. Cant. Jolly Roger; a flag hoisted by pirates. | 1811 |
| SUCKING CHICKEN | A young chicken. | 1811 |
| SWISH TAIL | A pheasant; so called by the persons who sell game for the poachers. | 1811 |
| TIB OF THE BUTTERY | a Goose. | 1737 |
| TIB OF THE BUTTERY | A goose. CANT. Saint Tibbs evening; the evening of the last day, or day of judgment: he will pay you on St. Tibbs eve. IRISH. | 1811 |
| Animals : Cats and Dogs |
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| BUFE | A dog. Bufes nob; a dogs head. CANT. | 1811 |
| BUFF | a Dog. | 1737 |
| BUFFER | a dog. | 1819 |
| BUGHER | a Dog. | 1737 |
| CHERRY-COLOURED CAT | A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red. | 1811 |
| GRIMALKIN | A cat: mawkin signifies a hare in Scotland. | 1811 |
| JUGELOW | a dog. | 1819 |
| MALKIN, or MAULKIN | A general name for a cat; also a parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds; likewise an awkward woman. The coves so scaly, hed spice a malkin of his jazey: the fellow is so mean, that he would rob a scare-crow of his old wig. | 1811 |
| PUG | A Dutch pug; a kind of lap-dog, formerly much in vogue; also a general name for a monkey. | 1811 |
| RAM CAT | A he cat. | 1811 |
| RUM BUGHER | A valuable dog. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM-BUGHAR | a very pretty and valuable Dog. | 1737 |
| TIBBY | A cat. | 1811 |
| TYKE | A dog, also a clown; a Yorkshire tyke- | 1811 |
| Animals : Cattle |
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| BATTENER | an Ox; The Cove has hushed the Battener; i.e. He has killed the Ox, in revenge on some Farmer, who, perhaps, had got him sent to the House of Correction. | 1737 |
| BATTNER | An ox: beef being apt to batten or fatten those that eat it. The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox. | 1811 |
| BLATER | A calf. Cant. | 1811 |
| CHURK | The udder. | 1811 |
| COWS BABY | A calf. | 1811 |
| COWS SPOUSE | A bull. | 1811 |
| COWS-BABY | a Calf. | 1737 |
| DUNNOCK | A cow. CANT. | 1811 |
| ESSEX LION | A calf; Essex being famous for calves, and chiefly supplying the London markets. | 1811 |
| MOWER | a Cow. | 1737 |
| MOWER | A cow. | 1811 |
| QUAKING CHEAT | a Calf or Sheep. | 1737 |
| QUAKING CHEAT | A calf or sheep. | 1811 |
| RUMFORD-LYON | a Calf. | 1737 |
| SCOT | A young bull. | 1811 |
| STAGGERING BOB, WITH HIS YELLOW PUMPS | A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are yellow. | 1811 |
| Animals : Horses |
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| GALLOPER | A blood horse. A hunter. The toby gill clapped his bleeders to his galloper and tipped the straps the double. The highwayman spurred his horse and got away from the officers. | 1811 |
| GROGHAM | A horse. CANT. | 1811 |
| JACKED | Spavined. A jacked horse. | 1811 |
| JOHNNY BUM | A he or jack ass: so called by a lady that affected to be extremely polite and modest, who would not say Jack because it was vulgar, nor ass because it was indecent. | 1811 |
| KEFFAL | a Horse. | 1737 |
| KEFFEL | A horse. WELSH. | 1811 |
| KINGS WOOD LION | An Ass. Kingswood is famous for the great number of asses kept by the colliers who inhabit that place. | 1811 |
| PIPER | A broken winded horse. | 1811 |
| PRAD | A horse. The swell flashes a rum prad: the e gentleman sports a fine horse. | 1811 |
| PRAD | A horse. | 1819 |
| PRANCER | a Horse. | 1737 |
| PRANCER | A horse. Prancers nab.; a horses head, used as a seal to a counterfeit pass. At the sign of the prancers poll, i.e. the nags head. | 1811 |
| QUEER PRANCER | A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer. | 1811 |
| QUEERE-PRANCER | a foundered Jade, an ordinary low prized Horse: also a cowardly or faint hearted Horse-stealer. | 1737 |
| QUITAM | Aquitam horse; one that will both carry and draw. LAW WIT. | 1811 |
| RIP | A miserable rip; a poor, lean, worn-out horse. A shabby mean fellow. | 1811 |
| ROARER | A broken-winded horse. | 1811 |
| RUM PRANCER | A fine horse. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM-PRANCER | a very beautiful Horse. | 1737 |
| SCARLET HORSE | A high red, hired or hack horse: a pun on the word HIRED. | 1811 |
| SNICKER | A glandered horse. | 1811 |
| SPANISH, or KING OF SPAINS TRUMPETER | An ass when braying. | 1811 |
| STAR GAZER | A horse who throws up his head; also a hedge whore. | 1811 |
| TIT | a Horse; also a young prim Lass. | 1737 |
| TIT | A horse; a pretty little tit; a smart little girl. a *** or tid bit; a delicate morsel. Tommy tit; a smart lively little fellow. | 1811 |
| WILLING TIT | A free horse, or a coming girl. | 1811 |
| WILLING-Tit | a little Horse that Travels chearfully; also a coming Girl. | 1737 |
| Animals : Other Animals |
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| LONG ONE | A hare; a term used by poachers. | 1811 |
| PANTER | A hart: that animal is, in the Psalms, said to pant after the fresh water-brooks. Also the human heart, which frequently pants in time of danger. CANT. | 1811 |
| SEA LAWYER | A shark. | 1811 |
| Animals : Pigs |
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| GROUND SQUIRREL | A hog, or pig. SEA TERM. | 1811 |
| GRUNTER | a sucking Pig. | 1737 |
| GRUNTER | A hog; to grunt; to groan, or complain of sickness. | 1811 |
| GRUNTING-CHEAT | a Pig. | 1737 |
| PORKER | A hog: also a Jew. | 1811 |
| SOUNDERS | A herd of swine. | 1811 |
| SOWS BABY | a Pig. | 1737 |
| SOWS BABY | A sucking pig. | 1811 |
| SWING TAIL | A hog. | 1811 |
| Animals : Related Terms |
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| CACKLERS KEN | A hen roost. CANT. | 1811 |
| EVES | Hen-Roosts. | 1737 |
| EVES | Hen roosts. | 1811 |
| EVIL | A halter. Cant, Also a wife. | 1811 |
| KIP | The skin of a large calf, in the language of the Excise-office. | 1811 |
| Animals : Sheep |
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| BLEATING CHEAT | A sheep. Cant. | 1811 |
| BLEATING-CHEAT | a Sheep. | 1737 |
| HAVIL | A sheep. CANT. | 1811 |
| KNAPPERS POLL | A sheeps head. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM BLEATING CHEAT | A fat wether sheep. CANT. | 1811 |
| RUM-BLEATING-CHEAT | a very fat Weather. [[See Bleating-Cheat]] | 1737 |
| TUP | A ram: figuratively, a cuckold. | 1811 |
| WOOLBIRD | A sheep. CANT. | 1811 |
| WOOLLY-BIRDS | sheep. | 1819 |
| Animals : Vermin |
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| CHATS | lice. | 1819 |
| CHATTS | Lice. To Squeeze the Chatts; To crack or kill those Vermin. | 1737 |
| CHATTS | Lice: perhaps an abbreviation of chattels, lice being the chief live stock of chattels of beggars, gypsies, and the rest of the canting crew. CANT. | 1811 |
| CHATTY | lousy. | 1819 |
| CRAB LOUSE | A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen. | 1811 |
| GENTLEMANS COMPANION | A louse. | 1811 |
| LIGHT TROOPS | Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about. | 1811 |
| LIVE STOCK | Lice or fleas. | 1811 |
| LOUSE | A gentlemans companion. He will never louse a grey head of his own; he will never live to be old. | 1811 |
| SCOTCH GREYS | Lice. The headquarters of the Scotch greys: the head of a man full of large lice. | 1811 |
| SILVER LACED | Replete with lice. The coves kickseys are silver laced: the fellows breeches are covered with lice. | 1811 |
