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Gad up and down, to Fidle and Fisk, to run a Gossiping.
Gadding-Gossips, way-going Women, Fidging and Fisking every where. A Gad of Steel.
Gag, c. to put Iron-pinns into the Mouths of the Robbed, to hinder them Crying out.
Gage, c. a Pot or Pipe. Tip me a Gage, c. give me a Pot or Pipe or Hand hither, the Pot or Pipe.
Gallant, a very fine Man; also a Man of Metal, or a brave Fellow; also one that Courts or keeps, or is Kept by a Mistress. Gallant a Fan, to break it with Design, or Purpose to have the Opportunity and Favour to Present a better.
Gambals, Christmas Gamballs, merry Frolicks or Pranks.
Game, c. Bubbles drawn in to be cheated, also at a Bawdy-house, Lewd Women. Have ye any Game Mother? Have ye any Whores Mistress Bawd, and in another Sense. What you game me? c. do you jeer me, or pretend to expose me, to make a May-game of me.
Gamesome, Wanton, Frolicksom, Playful.
Gan, c. a Mouth.
Ganns, c. the Lipps.
Gang, an ill Knot or Crew of Thieves, Pick-pockets or Miscreants; also a Society of Porters under a Regulation, and to go.
Gape-feed, whatever the gazing Crowd idly stares and gapes after; as Puppet-shows, Rope-dancers, Monsters, and Mountebanks, any thing to feed the Eye.
Garish, gaudy, tawdry, bedawbed with Lace, or all bedeck’t with mismatcht, or staring Colours.
Garnish-money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.
Gaume, see Paume.
Gaunt, lank, thin, hollow.
Gears, Rigging or Accoutrements. Head-gear, the Linnen or dress of the Head. In his Gears, ready Rigg’d or Drest. Out of his Gears, out of Kelter, or out of sorts.
Gee. It wont Gee, it won’t Hit, or go.
Gelt, c. Money. There is no Gelt to be got, c. Trading is very Dead.
Gentian-wine, Drank for a Whet before Dinner.
Gentry-cove, c. a Gentleman.
Gentry-cove-ken, c. a Nobleman’s or Gentleman’s House.
Gentry-mort, c. a Gentlewoman.
George, c. a half Crown piece. He tipt me Forty Georges for my Earnest; c. he paid me Five Pounds for my Share or Snack.
Gibbrish, the Canting Tongue, or Jargon.
Gig, c. a Nose; also a Woman’s Privities. Snichel the Gig, c. Fillip the Fellow on the Nose. A young Gig, a wanton Lass.
Gigger, c. a Door. Dub the Gigger, c. open the Door with the Pick-lock that we may go in and Rob the House.
Giglers, c. wanton Women. Gigling, Laughing loud and long.
Gill, a Quartern (of Brandy, Wine, &c.) also a homely Woman. Every Jack must have his Gill. There’s not so Ord’nary a Gill, but there’s at Sorry a Jack. Gill-ale, Physic-ale.
Gillflurt, a proud, Minks.
Gilt, c. a Pick-lock; also a Slut or light Housewife.
Gimcrack, a spruce Wench; also a Bauble or Toy.
Ginger-bread, Money.
Gingerly, gently, softly, easily.
Gin, a snare or nooze, to catch Birds, as a spring is to catch Hares.
Gingumbobs, Toies or Baubles.
Ginny, c. an Instrument to lift up a Grate, the better to Steal what is in the Window.
Gipp, to cure or cleanse Herrings in order to Pickling.
Girds, Taunts, Quips, Gibes or Jeers. Bitter Girds, Biting sharp Reflections. Under his Girdle, within his Power, or at his Beck. If you are angry, you may turn the Buckle of your Girdle be hind you, to one Angry for a small Matter, and whose Anger is as little valued.
Give Nature a Fillip, to Debauch a little now and then with Women, or Wine.
Glade, Shade.
Glance of an Eye, a Cast of the Eye; at the first Glance, at a Brush or at the first Cast.
Glanders, filthy yellow Snot at (Horses) Noses, caught from Cold.
Glare, a Glister; also the weak Light of a Comet, Candle, or Glow-worm. To Glare, or blaze like a Comet, or Candle. Hence Glore, as Pottage Glore, or Shine with Fat.
Glaive, a Bill or Sword.
Glaver, to Fawn and Flatter. A Glavering Fellow, a False Flattering Fellow.
Glaze, c. the Window.
Glazier, c. one that creeps in at Casements, or unrips Glass-windows to Filch and Steal.
Glaziers, c. Eyes. The Cove has Rum Glaziers, c. that Rogue has excellent Eyes, or an Eye like a Cat.
Glee, Mirth, Pastime.
Gleam, a weak or waterish Light; hence a Glimmering or Twinkling of a Star.
Glib, Smooth, without a Rub. Glib tongued Voluble, ready or Nimble tongued.
Glim, c. a Dark-Lanthorn used in Robbing Houses; also to burn in the Hand. As the Cull was Glimm’d, he gangs to the Nubb, c. if the Fellow has been Burnt in the Hand, he’ll be Hang’d now.
Glimfenders, c. Andirons. Rum Glimfenders, Silver Andirons.
Glimflashy, c. angry or in a Passion. The Cull is Glimflashy, c. the Fellow is in a Heat.
Glimmer, c. Fire.
Glimjack, c. a Link-boy.
Glimmerer, c. the Twenty second Rank of the Canting Tribe, begging with Sham Licences, pretending to Losses by Fire, &c.
Glimstick, c. a Candlestick. Rum Glimsticks, c. Silver Candlesticks. Queer Glimsticks, c. Brass, Pewter or Iron Candlesticks.
Glow, either to Shine or be Warm, as Glow-worm from the first, and glowing of the Cheeks, or glowing of Fire, with relation to the last.
Goads, c. those that Wheedle in Chaomen for Horse-coursers.
Goalers-Coach, a Hurdle.
Goat, a Lecher, or very Lascivious Person.
Goatish, Lecherous, Wanton, Lustful.
Gob, c. the Mouth; also a Bit or Morsel; hence Gobbets, now more in use for little Bits; as a Chop of Meat is a good Cut. Gift of the Gob, a wide, open Mouth; also a good Songster, or Singing-master.
God’s Penny, Earnest Money, to bind a Bargain.
Gold-droppers, Sweetners, Cheats, Sharpers.
Going upon the Dub, c. Breaking a House with Picklocks.
Gold-finch, c. he that has alwaies a Purse or Cod of Gold in his Fob.
Gold-finders, Emptiers of Jakes or Houses of Office.
Good Fellow, a Pot-companion or Friend of the Bottle.
Goose, or Goose-cap, a Fool. Find fault with a Fat Goose, or without a Cause. Go Shoe the Goose. Fie upon Pride when Geese go Bare-legg’d. He’ll be a Man among the Geese when the Gander is gon, or a Man before his Mother. A Tayler’s Goose Roasted, a Red-hot smoothing Iron, to Close the Seams. Hot and heavy like a Tayler’s Goose, may be applied to a Passionate Coxcomb.
Goree, c. Money, but chiefly Gold.
Gossips, the Godfathers and Godmothers at Christnings; also those that are noted for Gossiping, much Idle Prating, and Tittle Tattle.
Graces, or Ornaments of Speech. With a good Grace, what is Becoming, Agreeable. With an ill Grace, what is Unbecoming or Disagreeable.
Grafted, made a Cuckold of.
Grannam, c. Corn.
Grannam gold, old Hoarded Coin.
Granny, an old Woman, also a Grandmother.
Grapple, to close in Fisticuffs or Fighting, Oppos’d to Combating at Arms-end; also a fastning of Ships together in an Engagement with Grappling Irons, a kind of Anchors (or resembling them) with four Flooks and no Stock.
Grasp, to Catch and Hold fast, or press with the close Fist.
Grating, harsh Sounds, disagreeable, shocking and Offensive to the Ear.
Great Buck, the Sixth Year.
Great Hare, the Third Year and afterwards.
Gratings, the chequer’d Work clapt on the Deck of a Ship to let in the Light and Air.
Green-bag, a Lawyer.
Green-gown, a throwing of young Lasses on the Grass and Kissing them.
Green-head, a very raw Novice, or unexperienc’d Fellow.
Greshamite, a Virtuoso, or Member of the Royal Society.
Grig, c. a Farthing; also a very small Eel. A merry Grig, a merry Fellow. Not a Grig did he tip me, c. not a Farthing wou’d he give me.
Grilliade, any Broild Meats, Fish or Flesh.
Grimaces, Mops and Mows, or making of Faces.
Grim, Stern, Fierce, Surly.
Grinders, c. Teeth, The Cove has Rum Grinders, c. the Rogue has excellent Teeth.
Gripe or Griper, an old Covetous Wretch; also a Banker, Money Scrivener, or Usurer.
Griping, is an Epithet commonly affixed either to the Exactions of Oppressive Governors, or to the Extortions of Usurers; Griping Usurers, and griping Usury being as ordinary in English as Usura vorax in Latin.
Griskins, Steaks off the Rump of Beef, also Pork-bones with some tho’ not much Flesh on them, accounted very sweet Meat Broyled.
Gropers, c. blind Men.
Grotesque, a wild sort of Painting mostly us’d for Banquetting or Summer-houses.
Grounds, Unscented Hair Powder, made of Starch, or Rice. See Alabaster.
Grownd-Sweat, a Grave.
Growse, Heath-polts.
Growneth, the Noise a Buck makes at Rutting time.
Groyne, corruptly by the Tarrs for Coronna, a Seaport of Galicia in Spain.
Grub Street News, false, Forg’d.
Grum, the same as Grim, Stern or Fierce.
Grumbletonians, Malecontents, out of Humour with the Government, for want of a Place, or having lost one.
Grumbling of the Gizzard, Murmuring, Muttering, Repining, Resenting.
Grunter, c. a Sucking Pig.
Grunting Cheat, c. a Pig.
Grunting Peeck, c. Pork.
Guard, of old Safe-guard, now shortned into Guard, either for State, as Princes have their Guards, or for security so Prisoners have theirs; also the Shell of a Sword, and the best Posture of Defence.
Gugaws, Toies. Trifles.
Gull, c. a Cheat.
Gull’d, c. Cheated, Rookt, Sharpt.
Gullet, a Derisory Term for the Throat, from Gula.
Gull-gropers, c. a Bystander that Lends Money to the Gamesters.
Gundigutts, a fat pursy Fellow. In the Gun, Drunk. As sure as a gun, or Cock-sure. Out of Gun-shot; aloof from Danger, or out of Harm’s way.
Gun-powder, an old Woman.
Gust or Gusto, a right Relish, Savour, or true Taste of any thing. A Delicious Gusto, Wines, Fruits, or Meats of a curious or pleasant Taste. A Gust of Wind, a short, sudden, furious Blast, as we say a Dash of Rain, for a sudden, short, impetuous Beat of Rain.
Guzzle, Drink.
Guzzling, Drinking much.
Gut-foundred, exceeding Hungry.
Gutling, Eating much. A Gutling Fellow, a great Eater.
Gutter Lane, the Throat.
Gutters, the little streak in a Deer’s Beam.
| Gutting, | { | An House, Rifling it, Clearing it. |
| { | An Oyster, Eating it. |
Gutts, a very fat, gross Person.
Gybe, c. any Writing or Pass Sealed; also Jerk or Jeer.
Gyb’d, c. Jerkt or Whipt.
Gybing, jeering.
Gypsies, a Counterfeit Brood of wandering Rogues and Wenches, herding together, and Living promiscuously, or in common, under Hedges and in Barns, Disguising themselves with Blacking their Faces and Bodies, and wearing an Antick Dress, as well as Devising a particular Cant, Strolling up and down, and under colour of Fortune-telling, Palmestry, Physiognomy, and Cure of Diseases; impose allwaies upon the unthinking Vulgar, and often Steal from them, whatever is not too Hot for their Fingers, or too Heavy to carry off. A Cunning Gypsy, a sharp, sly Baggage, a Witty Wench. As Tann’d as a Gypsy, of a Gypsy-hue or colour.
Gyrle, see Roe.