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Tramping with Tramps 212: Abraham Man – a veteran vagrant.at abraham-man, n.
Tramping with Tramps 212: Abraham Man – a veteran vagrant. Tramping with Tramps 163: The boards which the sandwich-man carries round used to be called his clappers. Someone substituted ‘flappers’ for this. Gradually they became known as ‘wings’, and finally the term ‘angel’ came to be applied to the familiar sandwich-man.at angel, n.
Tramping with Tramps 211: Bible – the pedlar’s box of pins, needles, laces, etc.at bible, n.
Tramping with Tramps 144: If Joe comes along he can blurry-well hop it again.at blurry, adv.
Tramping with Tramps 180: Some nice bull’s-eyes.at bull’s eye, n.
Tramping with Tramps 212: Tomato Can Tramps – those who curl up anywhere.at tomato-can vag (n.) under tomato can, n.
Tramping with Tramps 111: No one who can ‘chuck the gab’ need work to-day if they don’t want to. [Ibid.] 118: If I could ‘chuck a chest’ (spin the tale) I ought to live in comfort.at chuck the gab (v.) under chuck, v.2
Tramping with Tramps 163: The boards which the sandwich-man carries round used to be called his clappers.at clapper, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 212: Clem – starve.at clem, v.
Tramping with Tramps 176: My mates tried to dissuade me [...] saying it was ‘no cop’.at no cop under cop, n.2
Tramping with Tramps 212: Ditched – to get into trouble.at ditched, adj.
Tramping with Tramps 212: A Dolly Shop – A receiver’s parlour.at dollyshop, n.
Tramping with Tramps 90: A ‘spike’ in turn is known as the ‘dosser’s hotel’.at dossers’ hotel (n.) under dosser, n.
Tramping with Tramps 213: On the ‘downright’ there are hundreds of men who have a wide capacity for friendship.at downright, n.
Tramping with Tramps 212: a sympathetic person.at downy earwig (n.) under downy, adj.1
Tramping with Tramps 37: I strayed into a roadside coppice to have a simple lunch and a drum-up of tea.at drum-up, n.
Tramping with Tramps 67: The tramp [...] has an eye for a rabbit and a chicken, as well as a fag-butt.at fag-butt (n.) under fag, n.3
Tramping with Tramps 212: Fawney Man – pedlar of bogus jewellery.at fawney-man (n.) under fawney, n.
Tramping with Tramps 163: The boards which the sandwich-man carries round used to be called his clappers. Someone substituted ‘flappers’ for this.at flapper, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 212: Flickers – fainting.at flicker, n.2
Tramping with Tramps 212: Flickers – fainting.at flicker, v.2
Tramping with Tramps 211: Gagger – to tell the tale, to move to pity.at gag, v.
Tramping with Tramps 212: Ghost Story – made-up tale.at ghost-story (n.) under ghost, n.
Tramping with Tramps 212: To Gloak – tell the tale.at gloak, v.
Tramping with Tramps 211: Gorm – tobacco for chewing.at gorm, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 146: There was no green in Annie’s eye!at see any green (in my eye)? under green, n.1
Tramping with Tramps 128: Every tramp worthy of his name has [...] tried his hand at street-grizzling. [Ibid.] 134: Cambridge, he informed me, was a fine field for ‘grizzlers’.at street grizzling (n.) under grizzle, v.
Tramping with Tramps 153: ‘Kidding’ is one of the oldest items in the tramp’s list of callings. In every town in the country there are self-styled tradesmen who will readily employ a ‘kidder’ to ‘buy’ their goods and thus stimulate others into buying.at kid, v.
Tramping with Tramps 153: In every town in the country there are self-styled tradesmen who will readily employ a ‘kidder’ to ‘buy’ their goods and thus stimulate others into buying.at kidder, n.
Tramping with Tramps 211: A Knocker – taken by the police.at knocker, n.1
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