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].
- John Badcock
- Date:
- 1825
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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![Brown bess—a firelock. Brown George, a loaf made of wheat meal, entire. Brownies—Copper coin, halfpence and pence. Brown study, in a—thoughtful mood: “ a penny for your thought, Sir.” A. 4 Tis as much as ’tis worth ; merely a brown study.’ Brush—the tail of a fox ; and as he turns it up in running oft, so sportsmen say, ‘ he shows his brush,' when one leaves a company. Brush, is applied to men going at speed. Thus 4 To buy a brush—with a long handle,’ to run away —-and that quickly. 4 Brush along, brush off’—words of command, signifying—4 fly like dust.’ 4 Broom it,’ is the same thing,but most fairly applicable to old haggard women, because witches rode on brooms through the air formerly. Bub—beer. Humming-£m6; strong beer or ale. Bubbery, that species of double-tongueing which effects its purpose by clamour more than sense ; one of the proceeds of bibbing too much good beer. Also, a wordy noise in the streets. Thieves 4 kick up a bubbery’ among themselves to cover their acts. Bubble-and-squeak—a vulgar but savory kind of omnium ga- therum dinner of fried scraps, the scrapings of the cupboard. A bubble, a cheat that lasts but a short time. 4 To bar the bubble’—to restrict the decision of a bet to the rules of com- mon sense. A buck, buck’d-off—one dressed off sprucely ; derived, probably, from the buckskin-breeches, worn almost universally half a century since. Bucks and Bloods are nearly synonimous. Buck—male of fallow deer; when full grown he is a Roe-buck; the latter being most mischievous. * Bucket, to kick the’—to die. One Bolsover having hung himself to a beam while standing on the bottom of a pail, or bucket, kicked this vessel away in order to pry into futurity, and it was all up with him from that moment: Finis. Budge—to stir; as 44 Come, come, Marm, budge out of my bait—[Budge-row, probably]—Past eleven o’clock.” Buffers—formerly, men who carried contraband goods for sale fastened about their persons, and were obliged, in getting them out, to undress partly and show their skin or buff. They could not well be honest, and with great pro- priety became thieves, of that kind who run for it, or4 buff-it,' i. e, run until the clothes fly off—or nearly so. 4 In buff,' stripped to the waist, for a fight, or for work—as whipping](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29298453_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
