stoop n.1
1. the pillory [the position one adopts while thus confined].
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Discoveries (1774) 43: He stalls in the Stoop; he stands in the Pillory. | |
| Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753]. | |
| New Dict. Cant (1795). | |
| Dict. Sl. and Cant. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Stoop. The pillory. The cull was served for macing and napp’d the stoop; he was convicted of swindling, and put in the pillory. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Vocab. of the Flash Lang. | |
| History of George Godfrey III 24: They had ascended by regular gradations, from the area sneak, — robbing the areas of houses; and the kid rig, — imposing on boys entrusted with parcels, braving every variety of punishment, from the stoop, to the scragging post. |
2. (Aus.) a petty thief [he stoops to pick up things].
| Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. | |
| I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 240/1: stoop – a thief. |
In compounds
(UK Und.) the robbery of a man she has picked up by a woman (? a prostitute).
| Vulgar Tongue 35: Stoop Buzzing part. verb. ‘Let us go stoop buzzing.’ A practice with women of robbing gentlemen who fall into their company under peculiar circumstances. |
the placing of a number of people in the pillory at the same time.
| Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 271: stooping-match the exhibition of one or more persons on the pillory. |
(UK Und.) a man standing in a pillory.
| View of Society II 75: Stoop-Nappers are those who having been set at the pillory, they are likewise called Overseers of the New Pavement. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn). | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |