Sportsman's slang; a new dictionary of terms used in the affairs of the turf, the ring, the chase and the cock-pit, with those of bon-ton and the varieties of life / interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations and rum-ones, with examples, proofs and monitory precepts, useful and proper for novices, flats and yokels, by Jon Bee [pseud].

  • Badcock, John, active 1816-1830
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sportsman's slang; a new dictionary of terms used in the affairs of the turf, the ring, the chase and the cock-pit, with those of bon-ton and the varieties of life / interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations and rum-ones, with examples, proofs and monitory precepts, useful and proper for novices, flats and yokels, by Jon Bee [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    us by Patrick Colquhoun in his fabulated ‘ Treatise’ on this non-existent subject about 1794 ; calledpoor-ZZce, giggishly. Compel—(ring,) provincial of Oxfordshire; compounded of pommel, to beat, and to impel. Not good. Purl—hot porter, having an infusion of wormwood. It was anciently a winter-morning drink—dashed with gin. Relieved—from a troublesome customer, is any woman who miscarries; but the advertising ‘ Mr. White, at the blue lamp,’ till within a few years, acted professionally in this ingenious line. He is evanished from St. Paul’s. Ribbon, or ribben—money. Ring—the word was applied by the city-officers to that con- nexion, circle, or secret understanding which is supposed to exist among the caddees of stage-coaches who are upon the lay—or kedge; and in this sense of a ring represent- ing a circle, round, or connexion, better heads than their’s concur. “ Thus various tastes and tempers may be found In our small circle as the world’s large round.” Roleau—fifty guineas, done up in paper, and pasted close, passing from hand to hand at hazard, E. Q., &c. formerly, —but commonly one piece short, often two, and we have found the mistake a trifle worser for the actual holder. Howsomdever the discovery is not to be disclosed, unless laughingly, if the holder value his neck or collar-bone, [see Neck and crop,] or doubts the utility of the cold steel application at his ribs, or is apocryphal concerning the final efficacy of cranial perforation by the legs. See Lead towels. Guineas once avaunt! not practised upon sove- reigns, parceque le jeu de grab-coup. Roper—the hangman—obsolete. ‘ If 1 do, then damme the roper,’ is not now used. Saffron-down-derry—Saffron-hill and its beautiful vicinage; Caroline-court was, not long since, the sole rookery of Derry-men, their Shelahs and shelalahs. Scotch fiddle—the itch. No where to be found, ’tis inculcated, since the Bute ascendancy; all the Scotch being now too genteel, though, as Dr. Gregory, (himself a Scot,) lectured u it is engendered by the climate, it pervades every person of every age and every condition, the present company always excepted.”