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Jottings from Jail 23: ‘Fullied for a Clock and Sl.,’ reveals the fact that the writer stole a watch and chain, was apprehended [and committed for trial].at slang, n.2
Jottings from Jail 23: ‘Fullied for a Clock and Sl.,’ reveals the fact that the writer stole a watch and chain, was apprehended [and committed for trial]. Jottings from Jail 3: Call a flounder and dab with a tidy Charing Cross, and we’ll go for a Bushey Park along the frog and toad into the live eels.at frog (and toad), n.
Jottings from Jail 98: I tried to act the balmy (i.e., sham mad).at balmy, adj.
Jottings from Jail 124: Mr. Langmaid [...] is an old blue-jacket.at bluejacket, n.
Jottings from Jail 23: Fatty Bill, from City Road, rem for a bust ex 2 years.at bust, n.
Jottings from Jail 24: Mike, whose record is ‘7 or the chuck for a clock,’ i.e., he hopes to be acquitted, but rather expects seven years for stealing a watch.at chuck, n.2
Jottings from Jail 24: Mike, whose record is ‘7 or the chuck for a clock,’ i.e., he hopes to be acquitted, but rather expects seven years for stealing a watch.at clock, n.1
Jottings from Jail 24: Another complains that he is ‘put away by Charly Start, the Copper’s Nark’.at copper’s nark (n.) under copper, n.
Jottings from Jail 24: Poor old Jim, the lob crawler, fell from the Racker and got pinched.at lob-crawler, n.
Jottings from Jail 5: We went down the dancers.at dancers, n.
Jottings from Jail 24: Another of the trade has ‘dipped a lob for 6 quid’.at dip, v.2
Jottings from Jail 3: Donny (dona) for woman, and omee (uomo) for man.at dona, n.
Jottings from Jail 24: Kit, from 7 dials, remanded innocent on 2 charges of pokes, only out 2 weeks for a Drag, expects to get fullied or else chucked.at drag, n.1
Jottings from Jail 3: Call a flounder and dab with a tidy Charing Cross, and we’ll go for a Bushey Park along the frog and toad into the live eels.at live eels, n.
Jottings from Jail 4: Hi, yob! kool that enif elrig with the nael ekom.at ekom, n.
Jottings from Jail 4: Hi, yob! kool that enif elrig with the nael ekom.at elrig, n.
Jottings from Jail 4: Hi, yob! kool that enif elrig with the nael ekom.at enif, n.
Jottings from Jail 4: The delicate expression ‘fingersmith’ as descriptive of a trade which a blunt world might call that of a pickpocket.at finger-smith (n.) under finger, n.
Jottings from Jail 31: London for sharpers, Brummagem for thieves, Paris for flymen, Sheffield for pitchers of snyde.at fly man (n.) under fly, adj.
Jottings from Jail 6: This time I palled in with some older hands at the game.at game, n.
Jottings from Jail 31: Sheffield for pitchers of snyde (coiners and utterers), signed by Darkey, the gun (or gonoph, i.e., thief), from Wandsworth Road, for a bust.at gun, n.5
Jottings from Jail 139: Guzzling, gorging, beastly drunkenness, and worse things still, are being done to-day in the name of being merry.at guzzle, v.1
Jottings from Jail 23: Take my tip and turn square, from a hook who is going to be legged.at hooker, n.1
Jottings from Jail 212: Anyone who knows the effect a hard winter must have on the labouring classes [...] will know that at such times hundreds will perforce accept the shelter of the ‘house’.at house, n.1
Jottings from Jail 89: A damsel, aged 16 [...] following the footsteps of Noah Claypole on the kinchin lay.at kinchin lay (n.) under kinchin, n.
Jottings from Jail 23: Take my tip and turn square, from a hook who is going to be legged.at legged (adj.) under leg, v.1
Jottings from Jail 98: A mug-hunter, aged 24, left Millbank last Tuesday, after doing three months for a midnight theft.at mug-hunter (n.) under mug, n.1
Jottings from Jail 4: Hi, yob! kool that enif elrig with the nael ekom.at nale, adj.
Jottings from Jail 4: Sap her a top o’ reeb and a tib of occabot.at top o’ reeb, n.
Jottings from Jail 4: Sap he a top o’ reeb and a tib of occabot.at occabot, n.
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