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Adventures of Johnny Walker 56: The barrel-house-stiff is the most despised of all stiffs, for the simple reason that he is a physical wreck [...] The barrel-house-stiff is the shortest liver of all stiffs.at barrel-boarder, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 56: The barrel-house-stiff is the most despised of all stiffs, for the simple reason that he is a physical wreck [...] The barrel-house-stiff is the shortest liver of all stiffs. Adventures of Johnny Walker 163: He produces his ‘brief’.at brief, n.1
Adventures of Johnny Walker 190: The word ‘mouch’ is not often heard outside towns, for wandering beggars say ‘call.’.at call, v.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 191: Sixteen farthings for a feather – fourpence for a bed.at feather, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 20: Wingy knew that he had not seen him before, but he did not want his own presence disgraced by a new-made beggar – who is known to the profession by the name of ‘fresh cat’.at fresh cat (n.) under fresh, adj.2
Adventures of Johnny Walker 190: [as cit. 1909].at kennel, n.2
Adventures of Johnny Walker 253: Chicago Slim, who was relating to Bony – an English beggar – his awful suffering for a week in The State of Utah, where a beggar had no other food than bread and milk [...] and how travelling in that part was known to all beggars as ‘the bread-and-milk route’.at milk and honey route (n.) under milk, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 55: The mission stiff is greatly despised.at mission stiff (n.) under mission, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 124: These three men were ‘narks’. In other words they were town beggars: men that had lost their homes and had to take refuge in a common lodging-house [...] The ‘nark’ is either a catttle-drover, a small hawker, a mechanic that only has a couple of days’ work a week. [...] All true wanderers hate him. [Ibid.] 126: The worst charge to make against a ‘nark’ is that he is a spy and a tell-tale, and that he lets the lodging-house keeper know all the transactions in the kitchen.at nark, n.1
Adventures of Johnny Walker 190: Old beggars use the dignified word ‘travellers,’ in preference to beggars, needies, or callers.at needy, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 96: There was Peggy with his wooden leg.at peggy, n.1
Adventures of Johnny Walker 191: Combs – rakes.at rake, n.1
Adventures of Johnny Walker 190: Beggars in London lodging-houses use the slang of lodging-houses, and not of the open road. [...] [They] say ‘chuck’ or ‘tommy,’ when they refer to food; but the latter [wandering beggars] say ‘scrand’.at scran, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 155: They would not let the smell of their shackles reach the nose of a true beggar, if they could prevent it.at shackles, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 190: The wandering beggar says ‘skimish’ for drink, but the city beggar says ‘bouse’.at skimish, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 191: Scissors – snips.at snips, n.1
Adventures of Johnny Walker 14: ‘It is a sporting house,’ he answered, which in England would be called a brothel.at sporting house (n.) under sporting, adj.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 51: Another is a ‘cattle-stiff;’ then there is the ‘mission-stiff,’ and the ‘barrel-house-stiff.’ [Ibid.] 53: A cattle-stiff is another term of reproach, used by [...] boss cattlemen, towards the men who do the heavy, dirty, and ill-paid work.at cattle stiff (n.) under stiff, n.1
Adventures of Johnny Walker 51: Another is a ‘cattle-stiff’; then there is the ‘mission-stiff,’ and the ‘barrel-house-stiff’.at stiff, n.1
Adventures of Johnny Walker 191: Laces – stretchers.at stretchers, n.
Adventures of Johnny Walker 166: There may not be a swag-shop (a shop where hawkers are supplied) near.at swag shop (n.) under swag, n.1
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