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A Warning for House-Keepers 3: They have an instrument made about half a yard long [...] which they call a Betty, which being chopt under a door, with a little help, it will make it fly off the hinges.at betty, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 3: They have an instrument made about half a yard long [...] which they call a Betty, which being chopt under a door, with a little help, it will make it fly off the hinges. A Warning for House-Keepers 5: We bite the Culley of his cole / But we are rubbed unto the Whitt.at bite, v.
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: But when we come to the Whitt, / Our darbies to behold / And for to take our Penitency, / And boose the water cold.at booze, v.
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: The Budge it is a delicate trade, / And a delicate trade of fame.at budge, n.1
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: A Budge and Snudge commonly go together, a Budge is one that goes loytering down the street, till he can find somebodies door open [...] if there be nobody in the house, then they are so bold to take what stands next them and gives it to his Snudge, who snudges away with it to his fencing cins [sic] who buyes it.at budge and snudge (n.) under budge, n.1
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: We bite the Culley of his cole / But we are rubbed unto the Whitt.at cole, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: We bite the Culley of his cole / But we are rubbed unto the Whitt.at cully, n.1
A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They truck up the dancers, which is run up stairs.at track (up) the dancers (v.) under dancers, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: But when we come to the Whitt, / Our darbies to behold / And for to take our Penitency, / And boose the water cold.at darby, n.2
A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They truck up the dancers, which is run up stairs and bind all in the house, and some they gagg, which they call faget and storm.at faggot and stall (n.) under faggot, v.
A Warning for House-Keepers 6: Mary faugh you son of a w....at faugh!, excl.
A Warning for House-Keepers 4: Glasiers, are the right quarrel-pickers, they are a sort of cowardly thieves [...] very fearful of the least noise that is, so having got out, he makes all haste away to his fencing cins [sic], where he will brag of his bold attempt .at fencing ken (n.) under fencing, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 6: A File is a Pickpocket, a Bulk is his tame-Rogue, who goes alwaies with the File, for he can do nothing without the File.at file, n.1
A Warning for House-Keepers 6: And when we come unto to the Whitt / For garnish they do cry.at garnish, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 3: This Gilter is one that hath all sorts of Picklocks and false Keys to open any Locks both of Dores, Chests, Trunks and the like.at gilter, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: The way to prevent these Glasiers or window-creepers is to have shutters to your windows.at glazier, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They carry in one hand a dark Glim, and in the other a Poller, which is a dark Lanthorn and a Pistol.at glim, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 6: When that we come to Tyburn / For going upon the Budge / There stands Jack Catch that son of a w---- / that owes us all a grudge.at Jack Ketch, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 6: A Lifter is one who goes from shop to shop, pretending to buy, but it is to steal [...] They are most women that go upon this design.at lifter, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: But if the cully naps us / and the Lurres from us take / O then they rub us to the Whitt / And it is hardly worth a Make.at lurries, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They rifle the house for yellow-boyes and pieces of white, which is Gold and Silver, and if they find none, they take the best buleroyes or Lurryes they can find and pike off with them.at lurries, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: But if the cully naps us / and the Lurres from us take / O then they rub us to the Whitt / And it is hardly worth a Make.at make, n.1
A Warning for House-Keepers 6: Mary faugh you son of a w....at marry!, excl.
A Warning for House-Keepers 3: Those that go upon the Mill, which are house-breakers, they are the most dangerous of all sorts, they have an instrument [...] which they call a Betty.at mill, n.1
A Warning for House-Keepers 6: And when that he hath noosed us, / And our friends tips him no Cole, / O then he throws us in the cart / And tumbles us into the hole.at noose, v.
A Warning for House-Keepers 7: A Tongue-Padder is one that hath a fine Tongue, a quick Wit, and can speak several Languages, he is one that seldom speaks truth but gives himself to Romancing. [...] You must know that this Tongue-Padder is one which is called a Setter, so that he Pads them in Town and his Confederates upon the Road, which for his information he receives his share.at tongue pad, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They rifle the house for yellow-boyes and pieces of white, which is Gold and Silver, and if they find none, they take the best buleroyes or Lurryes they can find and pike off with them.at pike, v.1
A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They carry in one hand a dark Glim, and in the other a Poller, which is a dark Lanthorn and a Pistol.at poller, n.
A Warning for House-Keepers 5: We bite the Culley of his cole / But we are rubbed unto the Whitt.at rub to the whit (v.) under rub, v.2
A Warning for House-Keepers 8: A Private Thief is one that hath been in some Prison and scaped a Scouring.at scouring, n.
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