18th Century Thieves Cant |
Disease |
Disease : Disease |
BUBE | the Pox. The Mort tipt the Bube upon the Cully; The Wench has clapped the Fellow. | 1737 |
BUBE | The venereal disease. | 1811 |
BURNER | A clap. The blowen tipped the swell a burner; the girl gave the gentleman a clap. | 1811 |
BURNT | poxed, or clapt. | 1737 |
BURNT | Poxed or clapped. He was sent out a sacrifice, and came home a burnt offering; a saying of seamen who have caught the venereal disease abroad. He has burnt his fingers; he has suffered by meddling. | 1811 |
CANNIKIN | the Plague. | 1737 |
CANNIKIN | A small can: also, in the canting sense, the plague. | 1811 |
COMMON-GARDEN-GOUT | or rather Covent-Garden-Gout, the Foul Disease. | 1737 |
COVENT GARDEN AGUE | The venereal disease. He broke his shins against Covent Garden rails; he caught the venereal disorder. | 1811 |
CRINKUMS | the foul Disease. | 1737 |
CRINKUMS | The foul or venereal disease. | 1811 |
DRIPPER | a sort of Clap, or venereal Gleet. | 1737 |
DRIPPER | A gleet. | 1811 |
DROPPING MEMBER | A mans yard with a gonorrhoea. | 1811 |
DRURY LANE AGUE | The venereal disorder. | 1811 |
DUMB WATCH | A venereal bubo in the groin. | 1811 |
FLAP DRAGON | a Clap or Pox. | 1737 |
FLAP DRAGON | A clap, or pox. | 1811 |
FRENCH DISEASE | The venereal disease, said to have been imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered by a blow over the snout with a French faggot-stick; i.e. he lost his nose by the pox. | 1811 |
FRENCH GOUT | the Pox. A Blow with a French Faggot stick, when the Nose is fallen by the Pox | 1737 |
FRENCHIFIED | clapt or Poxt. | 1737 |
FRENCHIFIED | Infected with the venereal disease. The mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected. | 1811 |
HADDUMS | The Shark has been at Haddams; He is clapt or poxed. | 1737 |
HADEM | He has been at Hadem, and came home by Clapham; said of one who has caught the venereal disease. | 1811 |
OYSTER | A gob of thick phlegm, spit by a consumptive man; in law Latin, UNUM VIRIDUM GOBBUM | 1811 |
PEPPERED | Infected with the venereal disease. | 1811 |
PEPPERED OFF | soundly clapt or Poxt. | 1737 |
PISSING PINS AND NEEDLES | To have a gonorrhea. | 1811 |
POULAIN | a Bubo. | 1737 |
POULAIN | A bubo. FRENCH. | 1811 |
POWDERING TUB | The same as pickling tub. See PICKLING TUB. | 1811 |
POWDERING-TUB | the pocky Hospital at Kingsland near London. | 1737 |
QUEER AS DICKS HATBAND | Out of order, without knowing ones disease. | 1811 |
RUNNING HORSE, or NAG | A clap, or gleet. | 1811 |
SCALDER | A clap. The cull has napped a scalder; the fellow has got a clap. | 1811 |
SCOTCH FIDDLE | the Itch. | 1737 |
SCOTCH FIDDLE | The itch. | 1811 |
SCRUBADO | the Itch. | 1737 |
SCRUBBADO | The itch. | 1811 |
SHANKER | A venereal wart. | 1811 |
SHOT TWIXT WIND AND WATER | Clapt or Poxd. | 1737 |
SNUFFLES | A cold in the head, attended with a running at the nose. | 1811 |
SPANISH GOUT | The pox. | 1811 |
SPANISH-GOUT | the Pox. | 1737 |
SUN-BURNT | clapt. | 1737 |
SUNBURNT | Clapped; also haying many male children. | 1811 |
TOKEN | The plague: also the venereal disease. She tipped him the token; she gave him a clap or pox. | 1811 |
TOKENS | the Plague; also Presents from one to another; also a Farthing. Not a Token left; Not a Farthing remaining. Tom Fools token; Money | 1737 |
VENUSS CURSE | The venereal disease. | 1811 |
WAPPER-EYED | that has sore or running Eyes. | 1737 |
WELCH FIDDLE | The itch. See SCOTCH FIDDLE. | 1811 |
WELSH FIDDLE | or Scotch-Fiddle; the Itch. | 1737 |
Disease : Vomiting |
ACCOUNTS | To cast up ones accounts; to vomit. | 1811 |
ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS | One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him. SEA PHRASE. | 1811 |
CASTING UP ONES ACCOUNTS | Vomiting. | 1811 |
HASH | To flash the hash; to vomit. CANT. | 1811 |
SH-T-NG THROUGH THE TEETH | Vomiting. Hark ye, friend, have you got a padlock on your a-se, that you sh-te through your teeth? Vulgar address to one vomiting. | 1811 |
TO CASCADE | To vomit. | 1811 |
TO CAT, or SHOOT THE CAT | To vomit from drunkenness. | 1811 |
To FLASH THE HASH | To vomit. CANT. | 1811 |
To FLAY, or FLEA, THE FOX | To vomit. | 1811 |
TO SHOOT THE CAT | To vomit from excess of liquor; called also catting. | 1811 |