prating cheat n.
(UK Und.) the tongue.
Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 82: a pratling chete, a tounge. | ||
Groundworke of Conny-catching [as cit. c.1566]. | ||
Belman’s Second Nights Walk B1: A Prat-ling cheate is a tongue, Crashing cheates, are teeth; Hearing cheates are Eares. | ||
Eng. Villainies (9th edn). | Canters Dict.||
Eng. Rogue I 51: Prating cheat, A Tongue. | ||
Canting Academy (2nd edn). | ||
Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Pratling cheat, the Tongue. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Prating Cheat a Tongue. | ||
Triumph of Wit. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725]. | |
Scoundrel’s Dict. 19: The Tongue – Prating-cheat. | ||
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Musa Pedestris (1896) 121: She’s wide-awake, and her prating cheat, / For humming a cove was never beat. | ‘The Thieves’s Chaunt’ in Farmer||
Londres et les Anglais 317/1: prating cheat, la langue. |