sawney n.2
bacon.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Vocab. of the Flash Lang. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dict. of the Flash or Cant Lang. 167: I speeled to the crib, where I found Jim had been pulling down sawney for grub. | |
| Paved with Gold 266: The big piece of ‘sawney’ (bacon) being thrown in for nothing. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vocabulum 76: sawney Bacon; fat pork. | |
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 84/2: On the table, half concealed, lay a ham and about a dozen pieces of ‘sawney’ that had just been pinched by this young band of sneak thieves. | |
| Sl. Dict. | |
| Sydney Sl. Dict. 9/2: Dick went pulling down sawney for grub last week, when a cop pinched him. He’s gone in the country for a rest. Dick went stealing bacon from shop-doors for food last week, when a policeman arrested him. He’s gone to jail for one year. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 69: Sawney, bacon or fat pork. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Tinkler-Gypsies of Galloway 194: Bacon? ‘Sawnie,’ [said] the Cumberland tinker. |
In compounds
one who steals bacon or cheese from grocers’ shops.
| Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 20 Mar. 4/3: ‘Sawney-hunters’ who purloin cheese or bacom from cheese-mongers’ shops. | |
| (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor IV 25: ‘Sawney-Hunters,’ or those who go purloining bacon from cheese-mongers’ shop-doors. | |
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 84/2: Granny Dixon was in the act of ‘slinging’ some ‘posh’ to a band of young ‘sawney hunters’. | |
| Sl. Dict. |
stealing bacon from where it hung on shop doors.
| Comic Almanack 56: Our ‘pet pickpocket’ had been telling the little fellow of the fun it was to go ‘sawney hunting,’ which I afterwards learnt was stealing pieces of bacon from shop doors. |