| 18th Century Thieves Cant |
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| Religion |
| Religion : Children |
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| BANTLING | a Child. | 1737 |
| BANTLING | A young child. | 1811 |
| BRAT | a little Child. | 1737 |
| BRAT | A child or infant. | 1811 |
| BULCHIN | a chubbingly Boy or Lad. | 1737 |
| BULL CHIN | A fat chubby child. | 1811 |
| CANARY-BIRD | a little arch or knavish Boy; a Rogue or Whore taken, and clappd into the Cage or Round-house. | 1737 |
| CHERUBIMS | Peevish children, becausecherubimsand seraphims continually do cry. | 1811 |
| CHIP | a Child. As, A Chip of the old Block; A Son that is his Fathers likeness. | 1737 |
| CHIP | A child. A chip of the old block; a child who either in person or sentiments resembles its father or mother. | 1811 |
| CHIT | An infant or baby. | 1811 |
| CHITTIFACE | a little puny Child. | 1737 |
| FEET | To make feet for childrens stockings; to beget children. An officer of feet; a jocular title for an officer of infantry. | 1811 |
| FOUNDLING | a Child dropt in the Streets for the Parish to keep. | 1737 |
| FOUNDLING | A child dropped in the streets, and found, and educated at the parish expence. | 1811 |
| HANS IN KELDER | Jack in the cellar, i.e. the child in the womb: a health frequently drank to breeding women or their husbands. | 1811 |
| HANS-EN-KELDER | Jack in the Box, Child in the Womb. | 1737 |
| HEMP | Young hemp; an appellation for a graceless boy. | 1811 |
| KID | a Child. | 1737 |
| KID | A little dapper fellow. A child. The blowen has napped the kid. The girl is with child. | 1811 |
| KID | a child of either sex, but particularly applied to a boy who commences thief at an early age ; and when by his dexterity he has become famous, he is called by his acquaintances the kid so and so, mentioning his sirname. | 1819 |
| KINCHEN | a young lad. | 1819 |
| KINCHIN | a little Child. | 1737 |
| KINCHIN | A little child. Kinchin coes; orphan beggar boys, educated in thieving. Kinchin morts; young girls under the like circumstances and training. Kinchin morts, or coes in slates; beggars children carried at their mothers backs in sheets. Kinchin cove; a little man. CANT. | 1811 |
| LITTLE BREECHES | A familiar appellation used to a little boy. | 1811 |
| LULLABY CHEAT | An infant. Cant. | 1811 |
| LULLABY-CHEAT | a Child. | 1737 |
| PICKANINY | A young child, an infant. NEGRO TERM. | 1811 |
| PIN BASKET | The youngest child. | 1811 |
| PRATE ROAST | A talkative boy. | 1811 |
| PRATE-ROAST | a Talking Boy. | 1737 |
| SOW CHILD | A female child. | 1811 |
| SOW-CHILD | a Female Child. | 1737 |
| SQUEAKER | A bar-boy; also a bastard or any other child. To stifle the squeaker; to murder a bastard, or throw It into the necessary house.--Organ pipes are likewise called squeakers. The squeakers are meltable; the small pipes are silver. CANT. | 1811 |
| SQUEEKER | a Barboy; also a Bastard, or any other Child. Stifle the Squueker; Murder the Child, and throw it into a House of Office. | 1737 |
| TODDLER | an infirm elderly person, or a child not yet perfect in walking. | 1819 |
| URCHIN | A child, a little fellow; also a hedgehog. | 1811 |
| WHELP | An impudent whelp; a saucy boy. | 1811 |
| WHITE SWELLING | A woman big with child is said to have a white swelling. | 1811 |
| WHOHES KITLING, or WHORES SON | A bastard. | 1811 |
| WHORES KITLING | or Whores Son; a Bastard. | 1737 |
| Religion : Marriage |
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| AUTEM MORT | A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity. CANT. | 1811 |
| AUTEM-MORT | a marryd Woman; also one who travels up and down the Country, with one Child in their Arms, another on her Back, and often leading a third in her Hand. | 1737 |
| BUCKS FACE | A cuckold. | 1811 |
| BUCKS-FACE | a Cuckold. | 1737 |
| GRAFTED | made a Cuckold of. | 1737 |
| GRAFTED | Cuckolded, i.e. having horns grafted on his head. | 1811 |
| HONEY MOON | The first month after marriage. A poor honey; a harmless, foolish, goodnatured fellow. It is all honey or a t--d with them; said of persons who are either in the extremity of friendship or enmity, either kissing or fighting. | 1811 |
| HONEY-MOON | the first Month of Marriage. | 1737 |
| HORN WORK | Cuckold-making. | 1811 |
| HORNIFIED | Cuckolded. | 1811 |
| MARRIAGE MUSIC | The squalling and crying of children. | 1811 |
| MARRIAGE MUSICK | Childrens Cries. | 1737 |
| MOUSE-TRAP | as The Parsons Mouse-Trap, Marriage. | 1737 |
| MOUSETRAP | The parsons mousetrap; the state of matrimony. | 1811 |
| NOOZED | or caught in a Nooze, married; also hanged. | 1737 |
| NOOZED | Married, hanged. | 1811 |
| OX HOUSE | He must go thro the Ox-house to Bed, said of an old Fellow that marries a young Woman. | 1737 |
| OX HOUSE | He must go through the ox house to bed; a saying of an old fellow who marries a young girl. | 1811 |
| PRIEST LINKED | married. | 1737 |
| PRIEST-LINKED | Married. | 1811 |
| RIB | A wife: an allusion to our common mother Eve, made out of Adams rib. A crooked rib: a cross-grained wife. | 1811 |
| SHE HOUSE | A house where the wife rules, or, as the term is, wears the breeches. | 1811 |
| SOCKET MONEY | demanded and spent upon Marriage. | 1737 |
| SPLICED | Married: an allusion to joining two ropes ends by splicing. SEA TERM. | 1811 |
| STAY | A cuckold. | 1811 |
| SWISH'D | married. | 1819 |
| TENANT FOR LIFE | A married man; i.e. possessed of a woman for life. | 1811 |
| WESTMINSTER WEDDING | A match between a whore and a rogue. | 1811 |
| WESTMINSTER-WEDDING | a Whore and a Rogue married together. | 1737 |
| WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND | A married couple, where the woman is bigger than her husband. | 1811 |
| YOAKD | married. | 1737 |
| YOKED | Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour performed at one spell by husbandmen, the days work being divided in summer into three yokes. Kentish term. | 1811 |
| Religion : Religion |
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| AMINADAB | A jeering name for a Quaker. | 1811 |
| AUTEM | a Church; also married. | 1737 |
| AUTEM | A church. | 1811 |
| AUTEM CACKLERS, AUTEM PRICKEARS | Dissenters of every denomination. CANT. | 1811 |
| AUTEM CACKLETUB | A conventicle or meeting-house for dissenters. CANT. | 1811 |
| AUTEM DIPPERS | Anabaptists. CANT. | 1811 |
| AUTEM QUAVER TUB | A Quakers meeting-house. CANT. | 1811 |
| AUTEM QUAVERS | Quakers. | 1811 |
| AUTEM-CACKLERS, AUTEM-PRICKEARS | Dissenters of any Denomination. | 1737 |
| AUTEM-CACKLETUB | a Conventicle, a Meeting-House for Dissenters. | 1737 |
| AUTEM-DIPPERS | Anabaptists. | 1737 |
| AUTEM-QUA-VERTUB | a Quakers Meeting-House. | 1737 |
| AUTEM-QUAVERS | Quakers | 1737 |
| BLACK-SPY | the Devil. | 1737 |
| BREAST FLEET | He or she belongs to the breast fleet; i.e. is a Roman catholic; an appellation derived from their custom of beating their breasts in the confession of their sins. | 1811 |
| BRISKET BEATER | A Roman catholic. SEE BREAST FLEET, and CRAW THUMPER. | 1811 |
| GOSPEL SHOP | A church. | 1811 |
| HUM BOX | A pulpit. | 1811 |
| HUM-Box | a Pulpit. | 1737 |
| HUMS | Persons at Church; as, There is a great Number of Hums in the Autem; i. e. There is a great Congregation | 1737 |
| JAPANNED | Ordained. To be japanned; to enter into holy orders, to become a clergyman, to put on the black cloth: from the colour of the japan ware, which is black. | 1811 |
| KIRK | a church or chapel. | 1819 |
| NECK VERSE | Formerly the persons claiming the benefit of clergy were obliged to read a verse in a Latin manuscript psalter: this saving them from the gallows, was termed their neck verse: it was the first verse of the fiftyfirst psalm, Miserere mei,&c. | 1811 |
| NEW LIGHT | One of the new light; a methodist. | 1811 |
| NICK | Old nick; the Devil. | 1811 |
| NON-CON | A nonconformist, presbyterian, or any other dissenter. | 1811 |
| OLD NICK | The Devil: from NEKEN, the evil spirit of the north. | 1811 |
| OLD ONE | The Devil. Likewise an expression of quizzical familiarity, as how dye do, OLD ONE? | 1811 |
| OLD POGER | The Devil. | 1811 |
| OLD ROGER | the Devil. | 1737 |
| PANTILE SHOP | A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting house, frequently covered with pantiles: called also a cock-pit. | 1811 |
| POT CONVERTS | Proselytes to the Romish church, made by the distribution of victuals and money. | 1811 |
| PRATTLING BOX | The pulpit. | 1811 |
| PRIEST-RIDDEN | Governed by a priest, or priests. | 1811 |
| RED-LETTER-MAN | a Roman Catholick. | 1737 |
| RELIGIOUS HORSE | One much given to prayer, or apt to be down upon his knees. | 1811 |
| REVERSED | A man set by bullies on his head, that his money may fall out of his breeches, which they afterwards by accident pick up. See HOISTING. | 1811 |
| RUFFIAN | The devil. CANT.--May the ruffian nab the cuffin queer, and let the harmanbeck trine with his kinchins about his colquarren; may the Devil take the justice, and let the constable be hanged with his children about his neck. The ruffian cly thee; the Devil take thee. Ruffian cook ruffian, who scalded the Devil in his feathers; a saying of a bad cook. Ruffian sometimes also means, a justice. | 1811 |
| RUFFIN | the Devil; as The Ruffin nab the Cuffin Quire, and let the Harman beck trine with his Kinchins about his Col quarron; i.e. Let the Devil take the Justice, and let the Constable hang with his Children about his Neck. | 1737 |
| SCHISM SHOP | A dissenting meeting house. | 1811 |
| SCRATCH | Old Scratch; the Devil: probably from the long and sharp claws with which he is frequently delineated. | 1811 |
| SLABBERING BIB | A parson or lawyers band. | 1811 |
| SOLOMON | or Soloman; the Mass. | 1737 |
| SOLOMON | The mass. CANT. | 1811 |
| STEEPLE HOUSE | A name given to the church by Dissenters. | 1811 |
| STRAIT-LACED | Precise, over nice, puritanical. | 1811 |
| WHINERS | Prayers, Supplications, etc. | 1737 |
| WHITFIELITE | A follower of George Whitfield, a Methodist. | 1811 |
