S

# The Letter S

## SACK

a Pocket. To Dive into his Sack; To pick his Pocket.

## SACK

also signifies to be drunk; As, He bought the Sack; i.e. He got drunk.

## SALESMAN'S Dog

the same as Barker.

## SALAMON

the Beggar's Sacrament or Oath.

## SCAB

a sorry Wench, or scoundrel Fellow.

## SCANDALOUS

a sorry Perriwig.

## SCANDAL-Proof

a thorough-pac'd Alsatian, or Minter; one harden'd, or past Shame.

## SCEW

See Skew.

## SCHOOL of Venus

a Bawdy-house.

## SCONCE

To build a large sconce; To run deep upon Tick or Trust.

## SCOTCH Fiddle

the Itch.

## SCOTCH-Mist

a sober, soaking Rain.

## SCOUNDREL

a Hedge bird or sorry Scab.

## To SCOURE

to wear. To Scoure the Cramp-rings; To wear Bolts. Also to run away. See Scowre.

## To SCOWRE

to run away or scamper.

## SCOWRERS

Drunkards beating the Watch, breaking Windows, clearing the Streets, &c.

## SCRAN

a Reckoning at a Boozing-ken, &c.

## SCRAP

s Design, a purpos'd Villainy, a vile Intention; also a perpetrated Roguery: He whiddles the whole Scrap: He discovers all he knows.

## SCRIP

a Shred or Scrap of Paper. As, The Cully did freely blot the Scrip, and tipt me 40 Hogs; One enter'd into Bond with me for 40 Shillings.

## SCRUB

a Ragamuffin.

## SCRUBADO

the Itch.

## To SCREW

to copulate with a Woman.

## A SCREW

a Strumper, a common Prostitute.

## SCUM

the Riff-raff, or Tagrag and Longtail.

## SEALER

one that gives Bonds and Judgement for Goods and Money.

## SECRET

as, Let into the Secret; When one is drawn in at Horse-racing, Cock-fighting, Bowling, and other such Sports or Games, and bit.

## SEEDY

poor, Money-less, exhausted.

## SERAGLIO

a Bawdy-house; so called from the Great Turk's Palace.

## SERAGLIETTO

a lousy, vile, sorry Bawdy-house, a meer Dog-hole.

## SET

as Dead Set, a Term used by Thief-catchers when they have a Certainty of seizing zome of their Clients, in order to bring them to Justice.

## SETTERS

## or Setting-dogs

they that draw in Bubbles, for old Gamesters to rook; also a Serjeant's Yeoman, or Bailiff's Follower, or Second. Also an Excise Officer.

## To SETTLE

to stun, or knock down; as, We settled the Cull by a Stoter on his Nob; i.e. We took him such a Blow on the Head, as quite stunn'd him.

## SHABBY

in poor sorry Rigging.

## SHABBEROON

a Ragamuffin.

## SHAB'D-Off

sneak'd, or fled away.

## SHAG-Bag

a poor shabby Fellow.

## SHAM

a Cheat, or Trick. To Cut a Sham; To play a Rogue's Trick.

## SHAMBLE-Legg'd

one that goes wide, and shuffles his Feet about. Shake your Shambles; Haste, be gone.

## SHAPPEAU

## or Shappo

for Chappeau, F. a Hat.

## SHARPER

a Cheat, one that lives by his Wits.

## SHARPERS-Tools

false Dice.

## SHAVER

A cunning Shaver; A subtle, smart Fellow. He shaves close; He gripes, squeezes, or extorts very severely.

## SHAVINGS

the Chippings of Money.

## SHE-Napper

a Woman Thief-catcher; also a Hen-bawd, or Procuress; a Debaucher of young Virgins; a Maiden head-jobber.

## SHOP

a Prison.

## SHOP-Lift

one that Steals under pretence of cheap'ning.

## SHOPT

imprison'd.

## SHOT

as, To pay one's Shot; To pay one's Club or Proportion.

## SHOT 'twixt Wind and Water

Clapt or Pox'd.

## SHOULDER-Clapper

a Serjeant or Bailiff.

## SHOULDER-Sham

a Partner to a File.

## SHRED

a Taylor.

## SHUFFLER

## or Shuffling-Fellow

a slippery, shifting Fellow.

## SHURK

a Shark or Sharper.

## SICE

Six-pence.

## To SILENT a Man

to knock him down, so as to stun him: To lay him down for dead. See the Cull is Silent, is also us'd by desperate Villains, for cutting the Throat, or shooting the unhappy Person who falls in their way.

## SILK Snatchers

a Set of Varlets, who snatch Hoods, Scarves, Handkerchiefs, or any Thing they can come at.

## SIMKIN

a Fool.

## SIMON

Six-pence.

## SINGLE-Ten

a very foolish, silly Fellow.

## SIR JOHN

the Country-Vicar or Parson.

## SIR TIMOTHY

one that treats every Body, and pays the Reckonings every where.

## SKEW

a Beggar's wooden Dish.

## SKIN-Flint

a griping, sharping, close-fisted Fellow.

## SKINKER

that fills the Glass or Cup. Who Skinks? Who pours out the Liquor.

## SKIP-Jacks

Yougsters that ride Horses for Sale.

## SKIPPER

a Barn.

## SKRIP

Paper.

## SLAM

a Trick; also also a Game intirely lost, without getting one on that Side.

## SLAT

a Sheet.

## SLATE

a half Crown; also the same as Slot.

## SLEEPING-House

without Shop, Warehouse or Cellar, only for a private Family.

## SLOUCH

See Zlouch.

## SLUBBER-Degullion

a slovenly, dirty, nasty Fellow.

## SLUR

a Cheat at Dice; also a slight Scandal or Affront.

## SLY-Boots

a seeming silly, but subtle Fellow.

## SMACKING-Cove

a Coachman.

## To SMASH

to quell, to beat or abuse violently; to kill.

## SMASH

to smite, to kick down Stairs. The Chubs tout the Blosses, they smash them, and make them brush; The Sharpers catch their Mistress at the Tavern, making merry without them, kick them down Stairs, and force them to rub off.

## SMEAR

a Painter, or Plaisterer, &c.

## SMELLER

a Nose.

## SMELLING-Cheat

a Nose-gay; also an Orchard or Garden.

## SMELTS

Half-Guineas.

## SMITER

an Arm.

## To SMOKE

to suspect or smell a Design. It is smok'd It is made Publick, all have Notice.

## SMOKER

a Tobacconist.

## SMOKY

Jealous, as, He is a smoky Cull; He is a suspicious Fellow.

## SMUG

a Blacksmith.

## SMUGGLING-KEN

a Bawdy-house.

## SMUTTY

Bawdy.

## SNACK

Share or Part. To go snacks. To go halves, or Share and Share alike.

## To SNABBLE

to rifle, to strip, or plunder. To Snabble a Poll, to run away with a Peruke or Head-dress.

## To SNAFFLE

to steal, to rob, to purloin. A snaffler of Prancers; a Horse-Stealer. Snuffle, is also a Highwayman that has got a Booty.

## SNAPT

taken, caught.

## SNEAK

He goes upon the Sneak at Darkmans, He privately gets into Houses or Shops at Night and Steals undiscovered.

## A SNEAKING Budge

one that robs alone, and deals chiefly in petty Larcenies.

## To SNIC

to cut.

## To SNILCH

to eye or see any Body. The Cull snilches; the Man eyes or sees you.

## SNIP

a Cheat; T snip, to cheat.

## SNITCH

## or Snitchel

a Filip on the Nose.

## SNITE

to wipe, or flap. Snite his Snitch; wipe his Nose, or give him a good Flap on the Face.

## SNOUT

a Hogshead.

## SNOW-Broth

Snow-water.

## SNUDGE

one that lurks under a Bed, to watch an Opportunity to rob the House.

## SNUG

All's snug; All's quiet, used by Villains, when every thing is silent and they hear no body stir to oppose their intended Rogueries.

## SOCK

a Pocket. Not a Rag in my Sock; I han't a Farthing in my Pocket. Also beat; I'll Sock ye; I'll drub ye tightly.

## SOCKET Money

demanded and spent upon Marriage.

## SOLDIERS-Bottle

a large one.

## SOLOMON

## or Soloman

the Mass.

## SON of Apollo

a Scholar.

## SON of Mars

a Soldier.

## SON of Venus

a Lover of Women.

## SON of Mercury

a Wit. Also a Thief.

## SON of Prattlement

a Lawyer.

## SOUL-Driver

a Parson.

## A SOUL

one that loves Brandy.

## SOULDIER's Mawnd

a counterfeit Sore or Wound in the left Arm.

## SOUSE

Not a Souse; not a Penny. From Sous, French Money.

## To SOUDSE

to fall upon, to beat cruelly; also to plunder or kill.

## SOUTH-SEA

a strong distill'd Liquor, so called by the Inhabitants and Clients of Newgate, &c.

## SOUTH-SEA Mountain

Geneva.

## SOW's Baby

a Pig.

## SOWSE Crown

a Fool.

## SOW-Child

a Female Child.

## To SOWR

to beat violently, &c. As, Sowr the Cull; i. e. knock him down: Beat him without Mercy, &c.

## SPANGLES

Ends of Gold or Silver.

## SPANISH-Gout

the Pox.

## SPANISH-Money

fair Words and Compliments.

## SPANKS

Money, Gold or Silver.

## To SPEAK with

to steal.

## SPECKT-Wiper

a coloured Handkerchief.

## To SPIRIT-Away

the same asKidnap.

## SPIRITUAL-Flesh Broker

a Parson.

## SPLIT-Fig

a Grocer.

## SPLITTER-of-Causes

a Lawyer.

## To SPRING a Partridge

to draw a Person in to be bit. To spring Partridges; to raise a Crowd in order to rob or pick Pockets.

## To SPUNGE

to drink at others Cost.

## SPUNGING-House

a By-prison.

## A SPUNGING Fellow

one tat lives upon the rest, and pays nothing.

## SQUAB

a very fat, truss Person; a new-hatch'd Chick; also a Couch.

## SQUAWL

a Voice; as, The Cove has a bien Squawl; The Fellow has a good Voice.

## To SQUEEK

to discover, or impeach; also to cry out. They squeek Beef upon us; They cry out Highway-men or Thieves after us. The Cull squeeks; The Rogue peaches.

## SQUEEKER

a Barboy; also a Bastard, or any other Child. Stifle the Squueker; Murder the Child, and throw it into a House of Office.

## SQUEEZING of Wax

being bound for any Body; also sealing of Writings.

## SQUINTE-Fuego

one that squints very much.

## SQUIRE of Alsatia

a Man of Fortune, drawn in, cheated, and ruin'd by a Pack of poor, lowsy, spunging Fellows, that lived (formerly) in White-Fryars. The Squire, a Sir Timothy Treat-all; also a Sap-Pate. A fat Squire; A rich Fool.

## SQUIRISH

foolish; also one that pretends to pay all Reckonings, and is not strong enough in the Pocket.

## STAG

a Term (inverting Qualities) used for an Enemy, a Pursuer; as, I spy a Stag, used by that notorious young Robber Shepherd, lately executed, when he first saw the Turnkey of Newgate, who pursu'd and took him after his first Escape from the Condemn'd Hold.

## STALE Jest

old, dull.

## STALE Maid

at her last Prayers.

## STALLION

a Whore-Master; so called from a Stone-horse kept to cover Mares.

## STALL-Whimper

a Bastard.

## STALLING

making or ordaining.

## STALLNG-Ken

a Broker's Shop, or any House that receives stollen Goods.

## To STAM-Flesh

to Cant; as, The Cully Stamfleshes rumly; He cants very well.

## STAMMEL

## or Strammel

a brawny, lusty, strapping Wench.

## STAMPS

Legs.

## STAMPERS

Shoes; also Carriers.

## STARTER

a Question; also a Flincher. I am no Starter; I shan't flinch, or cry to go home.

## STICK Flams

a Pair of Gloves.

## STINGO

humming, strong Liquor.

## STITCH-Back

very strong Ale.

## STOCK-Drawers

Stockings.

## STONE-Dead

quite dead.

## STONE Doublet

a Prison.

## STOP

as, I have stopt his Blubber; I have stopt his Mouth.

## STOP-Hole Abbey

the Nick-name of the chief Rendezvous of the Canting Crew of Gypsies, Cheats, Thieves, &c.

## STOTER

a great Blow. Stoter him, or, Tip him a Stoter; Settle him; give him a swinging Blow.

## STOW

i.e. You have said enough. Stow you, bene Cove; Hold your Peace, good Fellow. Stow your Whids and plant them; for the Cove of the Ken can cant them; Take care what you say; for the Man of the House understands you.

## STRAPPING

lying with a Wench.

## STRAPPING-Lass

a swinging two-handed Woman.

## STRETCHING

hanging. He will stretch for it; He will be hang'd.

## To STRETCH

to tell a Lye; as, He stretcht hard; He told a whicking Lye.

## STRIKE

to beg or rob; also to borrow Money. Strike all the Cheats; Rob all that you meet. Strike the Cull; Beg of that Gentleman. Strike the Cloy; Get the Fellow's Money from him. He has struck the Quidds; He has got the Money from him. He strikes every Body; He borrows Money every where; he runs in every one's Debt.

## To STRIP

to rob or gut a House, to unrig any Body; or to bite them of their Money.

## To STRIP the Ken

To gut the House.

## To STRIP the Table

To win all the Money on the Place. We have stript the Cull; We have got all the Fool's Money. The Cove's stript; The Rogue has not a Jack left to help himself.

## STROMMEL

Strap, or Hair, as, She hath good Store of Strommel on her Nob.

## STROWLERS

Vagabonds, Itinerants, Men of no settled Abode, of a precarious Life, Wanderers of Fortune, such as Gypsies, Beggars, Pedlars, Hawkers, Mountebanks, Fidlers, Country-Players, Rope-dancers, Jugglers, Tumblers, Shewers of Tricks, and Raree-show-men.

## STROWLING-Morts

who, pretending to be Widows, often travel the Countries, making Laces upon Yews, Beggar's-tape, &c. Are light-finger'd, subtle, hypocritical, cruel, and often dangerous to meet, especially when a Ruffler is with them.

## STRUM

a Ferriwig. Rum-strum; A long Wig. Also a handsome Wench, or Strumpet.

## STUBBLE-It

Hold your Tongue.

## STULING-Ken

the same as Stalling Ken. Which see.

## SUCK

Wine or strong Drink. This is rum Suck; It is excellent Tipple. We'll go and Suck our Faces; but if they toute us, we'll take Rattle, and brush; Let's go to drink and be merry; but if we be smelt by the People of the House, we must scowre off. He loves to Suck his Face; He delights in Drinking.

## SUCKY

drunkish, maudling, half-Seas over.

## SUIT and Cloak

good Store of Brandy or any agreeable Liquor.

## SUN-Burnt

clapt.

## SUNNY-Bank

a good, rousing Winter-Fire.

## SUPERNACULUM

not so much as a Drop left to be poured upon the Thumb nail, so cleverly was the Liquor tipt off.

## SU-POUCH

an Hostess or Landlady.

## SUTLER

he that pockets up Gloves, Knives, Handkerchiefs, Snuff and Tobacco-boxes, and other lesser Moveables.

## SWADDLERS

Rogues, who, not content to rob and plunder, beat and barbarously abuse, andoften murder the Passengers. Hence, To seaddle; To beat lustily with a Cane, &c.

## SWAG

a Shop. Rum Swag; Full of rich Goods.

## To SWAGGER

to vapour or bounce.

## SWEET

easy to be taken in; Also expert, dexterous, clever: As, Sweet's your Hand; said of one who has the Knack of stealing by Sleight of Hand.

## SWEETNERS

Guinea-droppers, Cheats, Sharpers. To Sweeten; To decoy, draw in, and bute. To be sweet upon; To coax, wheedle,entice or allure.

## SWIG

a draught of Liquor; To swig it off; To drink it all up.

## SWIG-Men

carrying small Haberdashery-Wares about, pretending to sell them, to colour their Roguery. Fellows crying Old Shoes, Boots, or brooms; and thos pretending to buy Old Suits, Hats or Cloaks, are also called Swig-Men, and oftentimes, if an Opportunity offers, make all Fish that comes to Net.

## SWINDGING-Clap

## Swindging Fellow

## Swindging Lye

a very great one.

## To SWINDE one off

to beat him soundly.