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

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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$out the French army [old regime] and of two or three regi- ments in the British. It resembles a ladies’ 44 Habit-shirt,” to which the gentlemanly reader will please to turn. Wag- goners’ frocks, when short, are but Dickeys. 4 Tis all Dickey’ with a man, when he is upset in trade, or 4 likely to swing for it.’ 4 Dickey Gossip,’ Dick Suet; and since ’twas all dickey with him, extended to any gossipping per- son, who therein makes a fool of himself. 4 As tight as Dick’s hat-band;’ he certainly drew the band tight, did Dick Smith. He was a Dorchester Coachman forty-five years ago, and had an habitual hoarseness ; 44 A hem ! said Dick Smith,” when he wanted a dram and pointed to the bottle. Dickey-box—the seat at the back of a stage-coach, outside. Dicky Diaper—a linen-draper. In France, they acquire the title of 4 jeune Calicot.’ Diddle—to cheat by sneaking means. To coax or cajole a person out of small sums, parasitically- Diddler—he who diddleth. Vide Jeremy Diddler : 44 Here is a letter arrived, you haven’t such a thing as tenpence about you, have you ?” Ding—to steal by a single effort. 4 To ding a castor;’ to snatch oft a hat and run with it: if he throws it away, the thief considers he has then dinged it; and the word would imply—it fled, in both cases. 4 Going upon the ding. —4 Ding the tot,’ run away with the whole—as the pot from the fire, mutton and all. Dining-room-— the mouth. 4 Dining-room chairs ;’ the teeth. Dirty-butter—a handsome lass with a thousand or two, is no dirty butter. Adopted out of the Irish ; and by them pron. 4 Dirirty buttra.’ Dished-up—Dinners never undergo this ceremony until they are done; a horseman is dished whenever he is thrown out in the chace ; and when gamblers have done with a pigeon, he is dished also. Disk'd—done for. A culinary idea. “ Mrs. Lobsky begged her company to take whate’er they wish’d; Says Will, ‘ don’t wait for plates, if you do, you’ll all be dish’d.” Distance (turf)—two hundred and forty yards is a distance, and horses which are thus far from the winning-post in one heat are not allowed to start again; such are set down as 4 distanced4 Douh\e,-distanced' is the same thing, su- perlatively—farther off; 4 out of sight,’ expresses it as well.$

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