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The Quaker’s Opera choose

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[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz or South-Sea, or Cock-my-Cap, or Kill-Grief, [...] or Bunter’s Tea, or Apricock-Water.
at apricock water, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: Ha, Old Brawn and Chine! how is it with thee? [...] How are all the Bloods in the Market?
at blood, n.1
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: At St. Martins, St Giles’, we shall have Burial still, / And here the Bowman Prig stands Buff, / And the Pimps have miss’d their Will.
at bowman-prig (n.) under bowman, adj.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: You know I only go on the sneaking Budge, I don’t deal in Houses.
at sneaking budge, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: The Bum who has the Writ against you, swears he’ll nap you.
at bum, n.2
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: Qu.: What hast thou got? Poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz or South-Sea, or Cock-my-Cap, or Poverty, or Bunter’s Tea.
at bunter’s tea (n.) under bunter, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz or South-Sea, or Cock-my-Cap, or Kill-Grief, or Comfort, or White-Tape.
at cock-my-cap (n.) under cock, v.4
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz or South-Sea, or Cock-my-Cap, or Kill-Grief, or Comfort, or White-Tape.
at comfort, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: I shall send you half a Dozen Fellows by and by. I have a dead Set upon the Rogues.
at dead set, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz, [...] or Apricock-Water, or Roll-me-in-the-Kennel, or Diddle.
at diddle, n.1
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: He’s gone to give Blueskin a Quartern of Geneva.
at Geneva (print), n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera III ii: There’s Shepherd and Miss Frisky, both as fine as Five-pence; and Four or Five more Gentlemen of the Pad.
at gentleman of the pad (n.) under gentleman of..., n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: bulk.: I hear Jonathan is abroad again, Mr. Hempseed. hemp.: Damn the Prig, I don’t value him a Louse.
at hempseed (n.) under hemp, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: My Countrymen! Dear Honey, you mistake, I am not an Irishman.
at honey, n.1
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz, [...] or Apricock-Water, or Roll-me-in-the-Kennel, or Diddle.
at roll me in the kennel (n.) under kennel, n.2
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz [...] Kill-Grief, or Comfort .
at kill-grief (n.) under kill, v.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz [...] or Diddle or Meat Drink-Washing-and-Lodging, or Kill-Cobler, or in plain English, Geneva.
at kill-cobbler (n.) under kill, v.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz , [...] or Diddle or Meat Drink-Washing-and-Lodging, or Kill-Cobler, or in plain English Geneva.
at meat-drink-washing-and-lodging (n.) under meat, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I iii: Thou fairest Whore That ever grac’d a Bulk, or mill’d a Clie.
at mill a cly (v.) under mill, v.1
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: qu.: What hast thou got? poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz or South-Sea, or Cock-my-Cap, or Kill-Grief, or Comfort, or White-Tape.
at South Sea (Mountain), n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: Qu.: What hast thou got? Poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz or South-Sea.
at nantz, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: The Bum who has the Writ against you, swears he’ll nap you.
at nap, v.1
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: Verily thou billest most salaciously, and art a most delightful Piece of Flesh.
at piece of flesh (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: And when we come unto the Whit, / Our Darbies to behold [...] we bouze the Water Cold. / But as I’ve liv’d to come out again, / If the merry Old Roger I meet, / I’ll tout his Muns, and I’ll snable his Poll / As he Pikes along the Street. [Ibid.] II ii: Zoons, there’s all The Watch and a new Constable; he is not in our Secret yet, so it is proper to pike off.
at pike, v.1
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: And when we come unto the Whit, / Our Darbies to behold [...] we bouze the Water Cold. / But as I’ve liv’d to come out again, / If the merry Old Roger I meet, / I’ll tout his Muns, and I’ll snable his Poll / As he Pikes along the Street.
at poll, n.1
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: Qu.: What hast thou got? Poor.: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz [...] White-Tape, or Poverty.
at poverty, n.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: Why sure you Slut, you saucy Put.
at put, n.1
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: Qu: What hast thou got? Poor: Sir, you may have what you please, Wind or right Nantz or South-Sea.
at right, adj.
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera II i: And when we come unto the Whit, / Our Darbies to behold [...] we bouze the Water Cold. / But as I’ve liv’d to come out again, / If the merry Old Roger I meet, / I’ll tout his Muns, and I’ll snable his Poll / As he Pikes along the Street.
at roger, n.4
[UK] T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera I i: The Dog has smash’d me damnably.
at smash, v.1
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