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[UK] W. Nevison in 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.’.
at bleating cheat (n.) under bleat, v.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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.’.
at cackling-cheat, n.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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.’.
at grunting-cheat, n.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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.’.
at quacking cheat, n.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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, [...] or to cloy a mish from the crack man’s.’.
at cloy, v.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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, [...] or to cloy a mish from the crack man’s.’.
at crackmans, n.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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.’.
at crash, v.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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.’.
at lurries, n.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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, [...] or to cloy a mish from the crack man’s.’.
at mish, n.1
[UK] W. Nevison in 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, [...] or to cloy a mish from the crack man’s.’.
at nip a bung (v.) under nip, v.1
[UK] W. Nevison in Newgate Calendar I (1926) 291: Wilt thou a-begging go. / O per se-o, O per se-o. / Then must thou God forsake, / And to the devil thee be take. / O per se-o, etc.
at o per se o, n.
[UK] W. Nevison in Newgate Calendar I (1926) 291: The patrico [...] bid them live together till death did part them. Then one of the company went into the yard and fetched a dry cow-turd, which was broken over his doxy’s head, in imitation of a bride-cake.
at patrico, n.
[UK] W. Nevison in 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.’.
at bite the peter (v.) under peter, n.3
[UK] W. Nevison in Newgate Calendar I (1926) 291: ‘Now,’ saith he, ‘that thou art entered into our fraternity, [...] for he that will be a quier cove, a professed rogue, must observe this rule, set down by an ancient patrico in these words: “Wilt thou a-begging go. o per se-o, o per se-o. Then must thou God forsake, And to the devil thee be take. o per se-o, etc.”’.
at queer cove (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] Newgate Calendar 🌐 He employed an old bawd in the affair, who was intimately acquainted with our hostess, and by this flesh-broker’s mediation things had like to have come to an issue.
at flesh-broker (n.) under flesh, n.
[UK] Newgate Calendar V 314: Being asked [...] if she thought it proper for a woman of decency to ask another ‘how she did after this merry-bout’, and ‘whether she thought a rape was a merry-bout’ .
at merry bout (n.) under merry, adj.
[UK] Knapp & Baldwin Newgate Calendar III 489/1: The Water in which the beef was boiled is thickened with barley, and forms a mess called smiggins.
at smiggins, n.
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