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[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 36: Bread, Cheese, and a Cup of good nappy Ale.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 31: They seldom or never happen to be bon’d, viz. taken.
at bone, v.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 12: He was Transported [...] to His Majesty’s Plantations in America — [...] but he bought a Brush as they term it [...] and return’d to England.
at buy a brush (v.) under brush, n.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 31: One of them would step to kiss her, and under the pretence of feeling her pretty Bubbies would thrust his Hand down her Bosom.
at bubby, n.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 31: Those Buttocking Frows, that for a Lie buxum, a Hog, or half a Slat, this is six-pence, a Shilling, or half a Crown, shall turn up their Scut to every Porter, Link-boy, Tinker, or Carman.
at buttocking, adj.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 35: Being ask’d whether he had Correspondence with those detestable Set of People call’d Molly’s, or Sodomites; Neaves reply’d that he never frequented any of their Abominable Houses of Call.
at call house, n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 11: At first he began to Play at small Game, viz. to go a Clouting (that is picking Handkerchiefs out of Men’s Pockets).
at clouting lay, n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 31: Those Buttocking Frows, that for a Lie buxum, a Hog, or half a Slat, this is six-pence, a Shilling, or half a Crown, shall turn up their Scut to every Porter, Link-boy, Tinker, or Carman.
at froe, n.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 11: He got into the Company of loose idle disorderly Persons, and fatally link’d himself into their Gang.
at gang, n.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 31: The way that he us’d to bite the Women, or play at Hawl Cloy, was this [...] whenever they met a Woman that they had Design upon, one of them would step to kiss her, and under the pretence of feeling her pretty Bubbies would thrust his Hand down her Bosom, whilst the Woman was struggling to take away his Hand, another of the Tribe would cut off her Pocket.
at haul-cly (n.) under haul, v.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 29: If the D—n Bitch the Fence will not pay them back, I will send her Adversaries enough that shall do her Business, and hike her over the Herring-Pond.
at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 28: He did not suspect him till after he hik’d away, that is, got clear with a Piece of Silk of considerable value.
at hike (off), v.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 29: If the D—n Bitch the Fence will not pay them back, I will send her Adversaries enough that shall do her Business, and hike her over the Herring-Pond.
at hike, v.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 45: If I had follow’d your Advice [...] nor need I have fear’d sailing up Holborn-Hill, splitting on the Rocks of sweet St. Giles’s, and being cast away at Tyburn.
at walk (backwards) up Holborn Hill (v.) under Holborn Hill, n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 31: Those Buttocking Frows, that for a Lie buxum, a Hog, or half a Slat, this is six-pence, a Shilling, or half a Crown, shall turn up their Scut to every Porter, Link-boy, Tinker, or Carman.
at hog, n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 17: Then Benson and Gale, alias Kiddy George, step’d up, and opening the Doors robb’d the said Mr. Colvart an the other Person of the Watch and Money.
at kiddy, n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 34: They robb’d the Man of his Scout, his Lob, and his Cole, that is his Watch, Snuff-Box, and about seven Pounds in Gold and Silver.
at lob, n.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 36: In other Rooms, there are your Barking Culls, there is a Fowl provided, which Mrs. Margery eats, whilst a Man lyes under the Table imitating a Dog, and gnawing the Bones, which Mrs. Margery throws under the Table.
at margery, n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 35: Those detestable Set of People call’d Molly’s,or Sodomites.
at molly, n.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 13: He became a Proficient in the Art and Mystery of Priggysism, and was aiding and abetting to the most perpetrated Acts of Villainy that human thoughts could suggest.
at priggicism (n.) under prig, n.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 34: They robb’d the Man of his Scout, his Lob, and his Cole, that is his Watch, Snuff-Box, and about seven Pounds in Gold and Silver.
at scout, n.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 31: Those Buttocking Frows, that for a Lie buxum, a Hog, or half a Slat, this is six-pence, a Shilling, or half a Crown, shall turn up their Scut to every Porter, Link-boy, Tinker, or Carman.
at scut, n.1
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 36: In other Rooms there are others, which they call Shitten Culls, they lye flat on their Back, with their Mouths open, whilst buxom Nan turns up her S—t and S—ts in his Mouth, which he licks in as Cordially, and with as good an Appetite, as a Scotchman does his Brewis.
at shitten cull (n.) under shitten, adj.
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 31: Those Buttocking Frows, that for a Lie buxum, a Hog, or half a Slat, this is six-pence, a Shilling, or half a Crown, shall turn up their Scut to every Porter, Link-boy, Tinker, or Carman.
at slat, n.2
[UK] Life of Thomas Neaves 16: Neaves stop’d the Chair with a cock’d Pistol in his Hand [...] whlst his Accomplices were only Tomys, that is, plac’d at a certain distance , to give timely Notice if any Persons approach’d.
at tip tommy (v.) under tommy!, excl.
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