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Cunning Northern Beggar in (1887) n.p.: I will by my maunding / Get some reliefe / To ease my griefe.at maund, v.
Cunning Northern Beggar in (1887) n.p.: I will by my maunding / Get some reliefe / To ease my griefe. Society and Manners in High and Low Life in Ribton-Turner (1887) n.p.: jigger-dubber. – Is a term applied to jailors or turnkeys, jigger being flash or cant for door. Dub the jigger is, in other words, shut the door.at dub the gigg(er) (v.) under dub, v.1
Society and Manners in High and Low Life in Ribton-Turner (1887) n.p.: If they should happen to refuse a brother sharper who is flash to the rig, and has been a by-stander, his whack, are instantly snitched upon; that is, the Snitcher follows the loser, and asks him what he will give him (the Snitcher) if he puts him in the way of recovering his money.at flash, adj.
Society and Manners in High and Low Life in Ribton-Turner (1887) n.p.: jigger-dubber. – Is a term applied to jailors or turnkeys, jigger being flash or cant for door.at jigger, n.1
Hist. of Vagrants 628: Your third rate class of sharpers, when they have won a sum of money, if they should happen to refuse a brother sharper who is flash to the rig [etc.].at flash, adj.
Hist. of Vagrants and Vagrancy 477: The same system prevails in North Country cant in the present day: ‘my nabs,’ myself; ‘his nabs,’ himself.at my nabs (n.) under nabs, n.
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