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The Swell’s Night Guide choose

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[UK] ‘F.L.G’ The Swell’s Night Guide K2: Canary Bird, inmate of a prison.
at canary-bird, n.1
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 51: It vas hout-and-hout good scoff, and no flies.
at no flies (about)!, excl.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107: Academy, a brothel, bagnio.
at academy, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/2: Ace of spades, a widow.
at ace of spades (n.) under ace, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/2: Ace of spades [...] also the heart-stirring monosyllable, see pego and cartsue.
at ace, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/2: Active citizen, a louse.
at active citizens, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/2: Adam’s storeroom, the womb of woman, also quim, snatchblock, long-eye, also crack.
at Adam’s storeroom (n.) under Adam, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/1: Admiral of the Blues, [...] persons wearing blue aprons.
at admiral of the blue (n.) under admiral of..., n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/1: Admiral of the Blues, persons afflicted with the blue devils.
at admiral of the blue (n.) under admiral of..., n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/1: Admiral of the Blues, [...] policemen.
at admiral of the blue (n.) under admiral of..., n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/1: Adonizing, faking the mug, and flashing the togs, doing the swellman, nutting the donnas, and queering the greens, to beautify, to appear as Adonis.
at adonize, v.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 109/1: After-clap, any disagreeable affair attending an action, see clap, pox.
at after-clap, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 107/1: Agility, see prat, quim, and c--t.
at agility, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 108/1: Agitator, see pego, life plant.
at agitator, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 68: I’ve tumbled on a donna, who has been doing the multa bonna fakement, pallarying the slavies down the haries and she has done stunning, and copped a lummy slum of bonna scran.
at airy, n.1
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 109/1: Akerman’s Hotel, Newgate in 1787, a gaoler of that name.
at Akerman’s hotel, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 109/1: All Nations, the drainings of different spirits or beer mixed together.
at all nations, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 109/1: Alsatia, in modern cant a place of security against the law, a hiding place, a stall slum – originally White Friars [...] also the Mint.
at Alsatia, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 129/1: Queer amen curler, a drunken parish clerk.
at amen-curler (n.) under amen, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 60: An out-and-outer she is to go and no mistake, a rattling piece and a stunning charver, s’elp my never.
at out-and-outer, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 64: He flash’d a birdseye fogle: kiddy tied, / And, Ankle Jack’s – slap buckled on each side. [Ibid.] 108/1: Ankle-jacks, vulgar term for shoes of a peculiar fashion, also of a man or woman who dresses flash.
at ankle-jack (n.) under ankle, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 110/1: Anointed, knowing, ripe for mischief.
at anointed, adj.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 109/2: Anthony, or Tantony Pig, the favourite or small pig, of a litter; to follow like a tantony pig, that is, St. Anthony’s pig to follow at the heels.
at anthony, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 113/2: Bill of sale, widow’s weeds, house to let.
at apartment (to let), n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 108/1: Apple dumplings, a woman’s bosom, dugs, cat’s heads, milk shops.
at apple-dumpling(s) (shop) (n.) under apple, n.1
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 108/1: Apronstring cove, a Jerry sneak, a man governed by a woman, a cooly cully, see c--t pensioner.
at apronstring cove (n.) under apron-strings, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 57: In comes a green, multa beargred, flashes his skin of tin; we cops that.
at be-argured, adj.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 108/1: Ars music, [...] the creaking of a bedstead when natural operations are being performed thereon.
at arse music (n.) under arse, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 108/1: Ars music, f--t.
at arse music (n.) under arse, n.
[UK] Swell’s Night Guide 60: Ratherish, my rum’un, ax the flyer else.
at ask my...!, excl.
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