cackling-cheat n.
(UK Und.) a cock, a capon.
![]() | Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 83: a cakling chete, a cocke or capon. | |
![]() | Groundworke of Conny-catching A3: She hath a Cackling Chete, a gruntinge chete, ruffe peck, cassan, and popelars of yarum. | |
![]() | Lanthorne and Candle-Light [as cit. c.1566]. | |
![]() | Roaring Girle V i: I’ll [...] drink ben bouse, and eat a fat gruntling cheat, a cackling cheat, and a quacking cheat. | |
![]() | Beggar’s Bush V i: fer.: Or surprising a boor’s ken, for grunting-cheats? / prig.: Or cackling-cheats? / hig.: Or Margery-Praters, Rogers, / And Tibs o’ th’ buttery. | |
![]() | Crabtree Lectures 191: Mort. Ile tell thee queere Cove, thou must maund at the Gigger for Pannum and Casum, or a cheat of queere bowse, or Kacklen Cheate, and whid rumpsie. | |
![]() | Eng. Rogue I 48: Cackling cheat, A Chicken. | |
![]() | Canting Academy (2nd edn) 4: Some are sent [...] to filch Tybs of the Buttery, Cackling cheats, Margery Praters, Red-shanks, and Grunting cheats. | |
![]() | Newgate Calendar I (1926) 291: ‘Now,’ saith he, ‘that thou art entered into our fraternity, thou must not scruple to act any villainies which thou shalt be able to perform, whether it be to nip a bung, bite the Peter Cloy, the lurries crash, either a bleating cheat, cackling cheat, grunting cheat, quacking cheat, Tib-oth-buttery, Margery Prater.’. | in|
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Cackling-cheats, c. Chickens, Cocks or Hens. | |
![]() | ‘Maunder’s Praise of His Strowling Mort’ in Musa Pedestris (1896) 34: When the lightman up does call, / Margery prater from her nest, / And her Cackling cheats withal, / In a boozing ken we’ll feast. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. | |
![]() | Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 105: [as cit. 1684]. | |
, , , | ![]() | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. |
![]() | Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 116: Chickens Cackling Cheats. | |
![]() | Scoundrel’s Dict. 16: Chickens – Cackling-cheats. | |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |