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Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 277: Bona (good) is used both as an adjective, and as an exclamation of approval or admiration.at bono, adj.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 277: Bona (good) is used both as an adjective, and as an exclamation of approval or admiration. Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 280: ‘Cackling’ [means] talking.at cackle, v.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 278: Money generally is spoken of as denarlies.at dinarly, n.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 277: Dona (lady) is so constantly used that I have seldom heard a circus man mention a woman by any other term.at dona, n.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 279: ‘To fake,’ means, in the thieves’ vocabulary, ‘to steal’.at fake, v.1
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 281: The salary received is the ‘screw,’ the ‘ghost walks’ when it gets paid.at the ghost walks under ghost, n.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 278: Going round the assemblage with a hat, to collect the largesses of the on-lookers, is ‘doing a nob,’ and to do this at the windows of a street, sometimes done by one performer standing on the shoulders of another, is ‘nobbing the glazes’.at glaze, n.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 281: An ‘artiste’ is ‘goosed,’ or ‘gets the goose,’ when the spectators or auditors testify by sibilant sounds disapproval or dissatisfaction.at goose, v.2
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 279: ‘Letty’ is used both as a noun and as a verb, signifying ‘lodging’ and ‘to lodge’.at letty, n.1
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 278: Going round the assemblage with a hat, to collect the largesses of the on-lookers, is ‘doing a nob,’ and to do this at the windows of a street, sometimes done by one performer standing on the shoulders of another, is ‘nobbing the glazes’.at nob, v.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 284: One of those who used to get their fifty or sixty pounds a week at the Alhambra, or who has had nuggets thrown to him.at nugget, n.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 280: ‘Prossing’ is a delicate mode of indicating a desire for anything.at pross, v.1
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 278: Any interruption of their feats, such as an accident, or the interference of a policeman, is said to queer the pitch.at queer someone’s pitch (v.) under queer, v.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 277: Saulty (penny) may be derived from the Italian soldi, and duey saulty (twopence) and tray saulty (threepence) are also of foreign origin.at saltee, n.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 279: To abscond from a place, to evade payment of debts [...] is sometimes called ‘doing a bunk,’ but [...] circus men, more frequently use the phrase, ‘doing a Johnny Scarperey’.at do a Johnny scarper (v.) under scarper, n.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 284: He is a ‘tip-topper’ of course.at tip-topper, n.
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities 278: Toe rags is another expression of contempt ... used ... chiefly by the lower grades of circus men, and the acrobats who stroll about the country, performing at fairs.at toerag, n.1
Celebrities I 313: A little perhaps, too much suggestive of the ‘black job’ business.at black job (n.) under black, adj.
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