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iliffs, and their crew.
_Porker_, a sword.
_Property_, a mere tool or implement to serve a turn; a cat's foot.
_Prig_, a thief.
_Quail pipe_, a woman's tongue.
_Queer cuffin_, a justice of peace, also, a churl.
_Rabbit suckers_, young spendthrifts, taking goods on tick of pawnbrokers
or tallymen, at excessive rates.
_Rattling_ cove, a coachman.
_Red rag_, a tongue; _your red rag will never lie still_, your tongue
will never be quiet.
_Regraters_, forestallers in markets.
_Ribben_, money.
_Rotan_, a coach, or wagon, or any thing that runs upon wheels, but
principally a cart.
_Royster_, a rude roaring fellow.
_Ruffin_, the devil.
_Ruffmans_, the woods or bushes.
_Rumbeck_, a justice of peace.
_Rumbo_, a prison.
_Rumboozling welts_, bunches of grapes.
_Rumboyled_, sought after with a warrant.
_Rum clank_, a large silver tankard.
_Rum degen_, a silver-hilted or inlaid sword.
_Rumdropper_, a vintner.
_Rum ogle's_, fine, bright, clear, piercing eyes.
_Rum-strum_, a long wig.
_Rum-swag_, full of riches.
_Scab_, a sixpence.
_School butter_, a whipping.
_Sconce_, to run in debt, to cheat.
_Seeds_, poor, moneyless, exhausted.
_Setters_, or _setting-dogs_, they that draw in bubbles for old gamesters
to rook; also a sergeant's yeoman, or bailiff's follower; also an
excise-officer.
_Sharper_, a swindler, a cheat.
_Sharper's tools_, false dice.
_Shot_, clapped or poxed.
_Shove the tumbler_, whipped at the cart's tail.
_Skin-flint_, a griping, sharping, close clown; also, the same as flat.
_Smearer_, a painter, or plasterer.
_Smeller_, a nose.
_Smelling cheat_, a nosegay; also an orchard, a garden.
_Smiter_, an arm.
_Smug_, a blacksmith, also neat and spruce.
_Smite_, to wipe or slap.
_Snitch_, to eye or see any body; the cub snitches, the man eyes or sees
you.
_Snout_, a hogshead.
_Sack_, a pocket.
_Shanks's naigs_, the feet.
_Snacks_, full share.
_Son of prattlement_, a lawyer.
_Soul driver_, a parson.
_South-sea mountain_, Geneva.
_Sow's baby_, a pig.
_Spanish money_, fair words and compliments.
_Spanks_, money, gold or silver.
_Specked wiper_, a coloured handkerchief.
_Spiritual flesh-broker_, a parson.
_Split fig_, a grocer.
_Splitter of causes_, a lawyer.
_Spoil pudding_, a parson who makes his morning sermon too long.
_Squeel_, an informer.
_Squirrish_, foolish.
_Stamps_, legs.
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