ampers_, shoes, or carriers.
_Stick flams_, a pair of gloves.
_Stoter_, a heavy blow.
_Strapper_, a handsome woman.
_Strommel_, straw.
_Strum_, a periwig.
_Stubble it_, hold your tongue.
_Suit and cloak_, good store of brandy, or agreeable liquor.
_Supouch_, a hostess or landlady.
_Swag_, a shop.
_Swell cove_, a man with plenty of money.
_Tagmans_, a gown or cloak.
_Tanner_, a sixpence.
_Tears of the tankard_, drops of good liquor that falls aside.
_Thrums_, threepence.
_Tickler_, a knowing fellow.
_Tile_, a hat.
_Tip of the buttery_, a goose.
_Tip_, to give or lend.
_Tip's your flipper_, give us a shake of your hand.
_Toggery_, clothes.
_Top diver_, a lover of women.
_Topping cheat_, the gallows.
_Topping cove_, the hangman.
_Topt_, to go out sharp, to be upon one's guard.
_To twig_, to disengage, to sunder, to break off.
_To twig the darbies_, to knock of the irons.
_Track_, to go.
_Trees_, wins threepence.
_Trib_, a prison.
_Trine_, to hang, also Tyburn.
_Troch_, a drunkard.
_Trooper_, a half-crown.
_Trundles_, pease.
_Tumbler_, a cart.
_Turkey merchant_, driver of turkeys.
_Vampers_, stockings.
_Velvet_, a tongue.
_To tip the velvet_, to tongue a woman.
_Vinegar_, a cloak.
_Wattles_, ears.
_Whack_, a share.
_Whids_, words.
_Whipshire_, Yorkshire.
_Whoball_, a milkmaid.
_Whisker_, a great lie.
_White wool_, silver money.
_Whibble_, sad drink.
_Whiddle_, to tell or discover: he whiddles, he peaches: he whiddles the
whole scrap, he discovers all he knows: the cull whiddled because they
would not tip him a snack, the fellow peached because they would not give
him a share: they whiddle beef and we must brush, they cry out thieves
and we must make off.
_Whinyard_, a sword.
_Whip off_, to run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch: he whipped
away from home, went to the alehouse, where he whipped off a full
tankard, and coming back whipped off a fellow's hat from his head.
_White swelling_, a woman big with child is said to have a white
swelling.
_Witcher_, a silver bowl.
_Wing_, a penny.
_Womblety cropt_, the indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch in wine
or other liquors.
_Wooden Ruff_, a pillory; he wore the wooden ruff, he stood in the
pillory.
_Word-pecker_, one that plays with words, a punster.
_Yam_, to eat heartily, to stuff lustily.
_Yarmouth-capon_, a red herring.
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