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Life’s Painter 179: They frisk him? That is search him.at frisk, v.2
Life’s Painter 179: They frisk him? That is search him. Life’s Painter 137: What, are Moll and you adam’d?at adam, v.
Life’s Painter 162: He died damn’d hard and as bold as brass. An expression commonly used among the vulgar after returning from an execution.at bold as brass (adj.) under bold as..., adj.
Life’s Painter 138: He went off at the fall of the leaf, at tuck ’em fair — he died d—d hard, and was as bad as brass.at bad, adj.
Life’s Painter 141: I shall go a ballooning; if you will go with me, Mr. Cockabrass.at balloon, v.1
Life’s Painter 173: Pistols, barking-hours [sic].at barking iron, n.
Life’s Painter 136: Aye, do, why should you be dubber-mum’d? there’s no hornies, traps, scouts, nor beak-runners amongst them.at beak-runner (n.) under beak, n.1
Life’s Painter 134: I say, my kiddies, there’s two bobsticks of slim, a bender for ale, and a flag’s worth of lightning to pay. [Ibid.] 178: Sixpence. A bender.at bender, n.1
Life’s Painter 175: They will out chif sometimes, that is, their knife, and cut a hundred weight of lead, which they rap round their bodies next to the skin, this they call a Bible, and what they steal and put in their pockets they call a prayer-book.at bible, n.
Life’s Painter 139: The brims, with birdlime fingers, / Brought warbling, seedy Dick, / The prince of ballad-singers.at birdlime, adj.
Life’s Painter 136: I only napt a couple of bird’s eye wipes, which I have just fenc’d to the Cove at that there Ken.at bird’s eye wipe, n.
Life’s Painter 141: I have done one cull twice for his cligh and bit; if you’ll hold his smiters up, and I should see him again to-morrow, I’ll do him out and out.at bit, n.1
Life’s Painter 134: his blowen, a female ballad-singer, now joins him.at blowen, n.
Life’s Painter 141: I must go on the lark-rig, blue pigeon-flying, or come the running glazier. [Ibid.] 165: Blue pigeon flying. Fellows who steal lead off houses, or cut pipes away.at fly the blue pigeon (v.) under blue pigeon, n.
Life’s Painter 137: I say, call for a bobstick of rum slim.at bobstick, n.
Life’s Painter 138: With whom came muzzy Tom, / And sneaking Snip, the boozer, / Bag-picking, blear-ey’d Ciss, / And squinting Jack, the bruiser.at boozer, n.
Life’s Painter 173: Shoes. Hockey-dockies, or Box-irons.at box-irons (n.) under box, n.1
Life’s Painter 136: And as the kelter runs quite flush, / Like natty shining kiddies, / To treat the coaxing, giggling brims, / With spunk let’s post our neddies.at brim, n.1
Life’s Painter 151: Sharpers [...] are continually looking out for flats, in order to do them upon the broads, that is, cards.at broads, n.
Life’s Painter 139: With whom came muzzy Tom, / And sneaking Snip, the boozer, / Bag-picking, blear-ey’d Ciss, / And squinting Jack, the bruiser.at bruiser, n.
Life’s Painter 133: So nobles and gents, lug your counterfeits out / I’ll take brums or cut ones, and thank you to boot.at brum, n.1
Life’s Painter 178: Crown. A bull.at bull, n.3
Life’s Painter 178: Half a crown. Half a bull.at half-a-bull (n.) under bull, n.3
Life’s Painter 178: Village bustler. A bustling fellow that has such a propensity to thieving, that whatever place he is in he will not go to bed till he has robbed somebody, from the dish-clout in the sink-hole, to the diamond ring off the lady’s toilet.at bustle, v.1
Life’s Painter 168: The running rumbler is a fellow belonging to a gang of pickpockets, who, in order to give them an opportunity of working upon the buz, that is picking of pockets, gets a large grinding-stone, which he rolls along the pavement, the passengers hearing the rumble endeavour to get out of the way [...] in this critical moment some of the gang snatch your watch, or pick your pocket.at buzz, n.
Life’s Painter 135: Padding Jack and diving Ned, / With blink-eye’d buzzing Sam.at buzzing, n.1
Life’s Painter 131: That species of people, who, at the same time that they can enjoy the flights of fancy on an attic wing, yet, stooping their pinions, feel as much pleasure in the effusions of what is termed cant, flash, low wit and humour, which substantially are quickened by the same orb, as the witty compositions of a more refined taste.at cant, n.1
Life’s Painter 142: You’ll buy a dozen or two of wipes, dobbin cants, or a fam or a tick, with any rascal, from a melting-pot receiver in Duke’s place, to a fence shop in Field Lane.at cant of dobbin, n.
Life’s Painter 146: I can [...] cant and slang, with a lumper of St. Giles’s.at cant, v.1
Life’s Painter 142: You forget when you was the village bustler, and was chaunted upon the leer, for doing a farmer out of a screen [Ibid.] 178: Chaunted upon the leer. Chaunted is cant for a person being advertised; leer is cant for a news-paper; if one sees another advertised, it is said, he is chaunted upon the leer.at chaunt upon the leer (v.) under chant, v.
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