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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![repeating bis last words, 4 and-chise, an-chise, wbeTefore art thou, Anchises?” Whence the name of him who begat iEneas on such occasion. Chitterlings—-properly the small guts of a pig, and by resem-, blance the frill of a tulip’s shirt. * Choice Spirit’—a high fellow, who enters into the merits of s his blunt 4 Chop upon a Hare’—to come unexpectedly upon and kill her without a run. Fox-hounds ‘ Chop a hare’ at times : ’Tis spoiling sport. A chop, is long-shore for a letter, a newspaper, and an act of parliament. Chopper (ring)—a blow that descends straight down the fea- tures, the knuckles making fine work thereon. Not a de- sirable sirategie; originating with Dan Mendoza; now little used. Chorus—4 Come, gemmen, bear a hand in the chorus,’ says a chaunter, 4 and the assembled gobs open like alligators.’ Choruses are of various sorts, and differ in different coun- tries, [we will not, however, travel]; and they bear some affinity to the subject “ Down, down, down derry down” belongs to plain John Trot narrative ditties. Madrigals sport their ‘ Lira, Lira, la,’ and Roundelays repeat the last lines and sometimes entire stanzas. Hunting songs and such-like cheerings of numbers, terminate with 4 And a hu’nting we will go, we’ll go, we’ll go,’ 4 Tantivy, my boys, lets away/ 4 Tally ho,’ and 4 Hark forward !’ 4 Thieves’ chorusses drop plaintively in the gamut, and the words slide off the tongue flashily ; they are long—44 Fol loi de ra, Fol lol de ray; fol de riddle, diddle diddle i-do ido is a very common termination, and indicates a do or 4 diddle/ which is generally a 4 riddle diddle ray.’ Soldiers use * Row dow dow;” their trade lying in rows and a clow or down. Politicians 4 Bow wow wow/ as if they would worry each other like dogs, as they are. Butchers, and other full- feeders, emit the last syllable of each verse hard and loud 4 to hammer the sense in’ to the thick skulls of their hearers. Our national songs (Dibdin’s) conclude with the repetition of the last stanza of estch verse, or a line or two, which is itself a repetition that is 4 brought in’ to make up the sense. He also shook over again the best meaning phrases in medio, with repetitions at the end of «.ach stanza, when the verse consisted of several. Tke the bottle and glass, is always frisky, and drop freely.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29298453_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
