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Soul Market 35: In the same house [...] lived two ‘grizzlers’ — men who were supposed to be respectively blind and crippled. Ellen assured us it was all ‘my eye’.at all my eye, phr.
Soul Market 35: In the same house [...] lived two ‘grizzlers’ — men who were supposed to be respectively blind and crippled. Ellen assured us it was all ‘my eye’. Soul Market 242: From her I learned much of the habits of our neighbours. Of course many things that she told me would be utterly impossible to relate, and can only here be hinted at. From her I learned that most of the men in the house were ‘hocks’ or ‘dead bents,’ as she called common thieves.at bent, n.
Soul Market 290: A forger is a ‘blacksmith’.at blacksmith, n.1
Soul Market 39: Slip round, my girl, and ‘nob’ ’em, and mind yer bring it all to light, and no weeding, no poling, mind yer, for if yer do, I’m bound to bowl yer.at bowl, v.
Soul Market 288: They were initiated by more experienced criminals into the art of ‘box-lifting’ – that is, till-stealing.at box, n.1
Soul Market 284: ‘Lots of us don’t never sleep inside durin’ the ’ot weather, me gal,’ a woman declared to me. ‘Yer see, yer can’t sleep indoors unless yer gets bug-proof.’ ‘Bug-proof?’ I said. ‘Yes, blind drunk, don’t yer understand?’.at bug-proof (adj.) under bug, n.4
Soul Market 165: Fish is brought up to Billingsgate [...] Their principal customers are the class known as ‘bummarees’.at bummaree, n.
Soul Market 290: To ‘do a burst’ is to commit a burglary.at burst, n.1
Soul Market 38: We had a chance of ‘busking’—that is, of giving a sort of variety entertainment in the streets.at busk, v.
Soul Market 37: It was Nellie who gave [...] me an informal introduction to a company of ‘buskers’.at busker, n.
Soul Market 40: Why, we’ve nobbed four carses and only touched for a sprarzer.at carsey, n.
Soul Market 284: The ‘fever cart,’ as the inhabitants of this court call the ambulance of the Asylum’s Board.at fever cart, n.
Soul Market 58: The dreaded ‘inspector’ [...] looked at every ‘casual’ closely.at casual, n.1
Soul Market 38: ‘Chant us a lay,’ he said [...] ‘Sing something.’.at chant, v.
Soul Market 36: The young woman called herself a ‘chanter,’ [...] she had maintained her mother and crippled brother by ‘chanting’.at chanter, n.
Soul Market 36: The young woman called herself a ‘chanter,’ [...] she had maintained her mother and crippled brother by ‘chanting’.at chanting, n.
Soul Market 290: To ‘chive’ a man is to stab him.at chiv, v.
Soul Market 39: The organist commenced to play at the request of Ben, who had given him the cryptic order of ‘Set about the dominoes, Bill’.at domino, n.1
Soul Market 290: A policeman in uniform is a ‘flat’.at flatfoot, n.
Soul Market 34: The street singers are called ‘griddlers,’ or ‘needy griddlers.’.at griddler, n.
Soul Market 35: In the same house [...] lived two ‘grizzlers’ — men who were supposed to be respectively blind and crippled. Ellen assured us it was all ‘my eye’.at grizzler, n.
Soul Market 290: A thief is a ‘head’.at head, n.
Soul Market 242: From her I learned much of the habits of our neighbours. Of course many things that she told me would be utterly impossible to relate, and can only here be hinted at. From her I learned that most of the men in the house were ‘hocks’ or ‘dead bents,’ as she called common thieves. [...] Crimes of the very worst description were openly and sympathetically discussed, and one cannot help wondering why the authorities allow such a hot-bed of sin to exist.at hock, n.3
Soul Market 43: That luxury of children of the slums, ‘hokey-pokey,’ or street ice-cream.at hokey-pokey, n.3
Soul Market 72: Telling the young man ‘to ’op it afore she set abaht’.at hop it!, excl.
Soul Market 83: Once I went with her to a ‘penny ’op.’ This was a dance given in the back parlour of a small public-house.at hop, n.1
Soul Market 131: ‘Saucy Poll’ [...] was ‘in with’ some of the worst characters among the thieves.at in with, phr.
Soul Market 270: My companion told me that she would sooner walk the streets all night than sleep in one of them Westminster ‘kip’ houses.at kiphouse (n.) under kip, n.1
Soul Market 290: To pass forged cheques or worthless ones is to ‘fly the kite’.at fly a kite (v.) under kite, n.
Soul Market 51: I’m knocked, that’s wot’s the matter; ill, ’ungry, and knocked.at knocked out, adj.
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