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A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 10: The shame of being thought to be bubbled, and exposed to the town, frequently prevents gentlemen from making use of the statute provided in such cases.at bubble, v.1
A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 10: The shame of being thought to be bubbled, and exposed to the town, frequently prevents gentlemen from making use of the statute provided in such cases. A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London [frontispiece caption] He is robbed by the Prostitute he wishes to embrace—Her Bully receives her Plunder and is ready to convince him by knock-down arguments, he is in a house of—Repute.at knock-down, adj.
A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 20: Money-Droppers [...] ply at the most public places in town [...] The dropping of money is the lure to inveigle countrymen into their company.at gold-dropper, n.
A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 5: Duffers [...] plying at the corners of the streets, courts, and alleys, to vend their contraband wares.at duffer, n.1
A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 21: Ring-Dropper [...] are a sort of cheats who [...] most commonly exercise their villainous arts upon a young woman. Their method is privately to drop a ring just before such persons come up etc.at ring faller, n.
A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 11: If you do, ten to one but you are had, a cant word they make use of, instead of saying as the truth is, we have cheated him.at had, adj.
A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 3: These old Bawds frequent [...] public places, with a young Nun (as they call her).at nun, n.
A Stranger’s Guide or Frauds of London 33: Setters [...] are a dangerous set of wretches, who are capable of committing any villany, as well as by trepanning of a rich heir into matrimony with a cast-off mistress or common prostitute.at setter, n.1
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