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ampers_, shoes, or carriers. _Stick flams_, a pair of gloves. _Stoter_, a heavy blow. _Strapper_, a handsome woman. _Strommel_, straw. _Strum_, a periwig. _Stubble it_, hold your tongue. _Suit and cloak_, good store of brandy, or agreeable liquor. _Supouch_, a hostess or landlady. _Swag_, a shop. _Swell cove_, a man with plenty of money. _Tagmans_, a gown or cloak. _Tanner_, a sixpence. _Tears of the tankard_, drops of good liquor that falls aside. _Thrums_, threepence. _Tickler_, a knowing fellow. _Tile_, a hat. _Tip of the buttery_, a goose. _Tip_, to give or lend. _Tip's your flipper_, give us a shake of your hand. _Toggery_, clothes. _Top diver_, a lover of women. _Topping cheat_, the gallows. _Topping cove_, the hangman. _Topt_, to go out sharp, to be upon one's guard. _To twig_, to disengage, to sunder, to break off. _To twig the darbies_, to knock of the irons. _Track_, to go. _Trees_, wins threepence. _Trib_, a prison. _Trine_, to hang, also Tyburn. _Troch_, a drunkard. _Trooper_, a half-crown. _Trundles_, pease. _Tumbler_, a cart. _Turkey merchant_, driver of turkeys. _Vampers_, stockings. _Velvet_, a tongue. _To tip the velvet_, to tongue a woman. _Vinegar_, a cloak. _Wattles_, ears. _Whack_, a share. _Whids_, words. _Whipshire_, Yorkshire. _Whoball_, a milkmaid. _Whisker_, a great lie. _White wool_, silver money. _Whibble_, sad drink. _Whiddle_, to tell or discover: he whiddles, he peaches: he whiddles the whole scrap, he discovers all he knows: the cull whiddled because they would not tip him a snack, the fellow peached because they would not give him a share: they whiddle beef and we must brush, they cry out thieves and we must make off. _Whinyard_, a sword. _Whip off_, to run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch: he whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, where he whipped off a full tankard, and coming back whipped off a fellow's hat from his head. _White swelling_, a woman big with child is said to have a white swelling. _Witcher_, a silver bowl. _Wing_, a penny. _Womblety cropt_, the indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch in wine or other liquors. _Wooden Ruff_, a pillory; he wore the wooden ruff, he stood in the pillory. _Word-pecker_, one that plays with words, a punster. _Yam_, to eat heartily, to stuff lustily. _Yarmouth-capon_, a red herring.
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