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Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: Bellswagger a swaggering Fellow, a hectoring Blade, a Bully.at bellswagger, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: Bellswagger a swaggering Fellow, a hectoring Blade, a Bully. Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: To Poop, to break Wind backwards softly.at poop, v.2
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. II n.p.: Tiff, a small Quantity of potable Liquor, as a Tiff of Punch, etc.at tiff, n.1
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. II n.p.: Tiff, [...] also a small Fit of Anger, etc .at tiff, n.2
in Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: arsy-versey, topsy-turvy, preposterously, perversely without order.at arsey-varsey, phr.
in Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.at mump, v.
Universal; Etym. Eng. Dict.at pack up one’s alls and be gone (v.) under pack, v.1
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: Cute, sharp, quick-witted.at cute, adj.
in Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.at tittery, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: To have an aking tooth at one, to be angry at, to have a mind to rebuke or chastise one.at have an aching tooth (v.) under tooth, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at blow with a French faggot-stick, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.at bing a waste, v.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at hot and heavy like a tailor’s goose, phr.
‘Canting Words and Terms’ in Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.at abram, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.at abram, adj.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict n.p.: abram cove, a lusty Rogue, with hardly any Cloaths on his Back; a Tatterdemallion. [...] abram-men, otherwise called Toms of Bedlam, shabby beggars, patched and trick’d up with Ribbons, Red-Tape, Rags of various Colours; pretending to be besides themselves, to palliate their thefts of Poultry, Linnen, &c. A sort of itinerant Hedge-Robbers, and Strippers of Children, &c.at abram-man, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: academy, a Bawdy House; a Receptacle for all sorts of Villains, where the young Ones are initiated in the Canting Language, and all manner of cheats and impostures, and sorted into Tribes and Bands, according to their several Capacities for Mischief.at academy, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: adam tiler, the Comerade of a Pick pocket, who receives stolen Goods or Money, and scours off with them. [Ibid.] n.p.: Tip the cole to adam tiler; i.e. give the Money, Watch, &c. to a running Companion, that the Pick-Pocket may have nothing found upon him, when he is apprehended.at adam tiler, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].at Jack Adams, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: affidavit men, Knights of the Post; mercenary and abandoned Wretches, who used to frequent the Temple and other Inns of Court, in order to be in Readiness to swear anything that was proposed to them.at affidavit man, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.at nappy (ale), n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].at Sir Timothy (Treat-all), n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: alsatians the Inhabitants of these two Places [i.e. Higher and Lower Alsatia] broken Tradesmen, extravagant Spendthrifts.at Alsatian (n.) under Alsatia, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: alsatia the Higher; White Fryars, once a privileged Place, as the Mint was lately; but suppressed, on Account of the notorious Abuses committed in it. [...] alsatia the Lower, the Mint in Southwark.at Alsatia, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.at altamel, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: ambidexter, [...] a Lawyer that takes Fees of Plaintiff and Defendant at once.at ambidexter, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: ambidexter, one that goes snacks in gaming with both Parties.at ambidexter, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: To amuse [in a Canting sense] [...] to invent strange Tales to delude Shop-keepers and others, from being upon their Guard.at amuse, v.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.at half-an-ounce, n.
Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].at yea and nay (man), n.
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