1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - LightNovelsOnl.com
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s...o...b..LL. A jeering appellation for a negro.
TO SNUB. To check, or rebuke.
SNUB DEVIL. A parson.
SNUB NOSE. A short nose turned up at the end.
SNUDGE. A thief who hides himself under a bed, in Order to rob the house.
SNUFF. To take snuff; to be offended.
TO SNUFFLE. To speak through the nose.
SNUFFLES. A cold in the head, attended with a running at the nose.
SNUG. All's snug; all's quiet.
TO SOAK. To drink. An old soaker; a drunkard, one that moistens his clay to make it stick together.
SOCKET MONEY. A wh.o.r.e's fee, or hire: also money paid for a treat, by a married man caught in an intrigue.
SOLDIER'S BOTTLE. A large one.
SOLDIER'S MAWND. A pretended soldier, begging with a counterfeit wound, which he pretends to have received at some famous siege or battle.
SOLDIER'S POMATUM. A piece of tallow candle.
SOLDIER. A red herring.
SOLFA. A parish clerk.
SOLO PLAYER. A miserable performer on any instrument, who always plays alone, because no one will stay in the room to hear him.
SOLOMON. The ma.s.s. CANT.
SON OF PRATTLEMENT. A lawyer.
SONG. He changed his song; he altered his account or evidence. It was bought for an old song, i.e. very cheap.
His morning and his evening song do not agree; he tells a different story.
SOOTERKIN. A joke upon the Dutch women, supposing that, by their constant use of stoves, which they place under their petticoats, they breed a kind of small animal in their bodies, called a sooterkin, of the size of a mouse, which when mature slips out.
SOP. A bribe. A sop for Cerberus; a bribe for a porter, turnkey, or gaoler.
SOPH. (Cambridge) An undergraduate in his second year.
SORREL. A yellowish red. Sorrel pate; one having red hair.
SORROW SHALL BE HIS SOPS. He shall repent this. Sorrow go by me; a common expletive used by presbyterians in Ireland.
SORRY. Vile, mean, worthless. A sorry fellow, or hussy; a worthless man or woman.
SOT WEED. Tobacco.
SOUL CASE. The body. He made a hole in his soul case; he wounded him.
SOUL DOCTOR, or DRIVER. A parson.
SOUNDERS. A herd of swine.
SOUSE. Not a souse; not a penny. FRENCH.
SOW. A fat woman. He has got the wrong sow by the ear, he mistakes his man. Drunk as David's sow; see DAVID'S SOW.
SOW'S BABY. A sucking pig.
SOW CHILD. A female child.
SPADO. A sword. SPANISH.
SPANGLE. A seven s.h.i.+lling piece.
SPANK. (WHIP) To run neatly along, beteeen a trot and gallop. The t.i.ts spanked it to town; the horses went merrily along all the way to town.
SPANISH. The spanish; ready money.
SPANISH COIN. Fair words and compliments.
SPANISH f.a.gGOT. The sun.
SPANISH GOUT. The pox.
SPANISH PADLOCK. A kind of girdle contrived by jealous husbands of that nation, to secure the chast.i.ty of their wives.
SPANISH, or KING OF SPAIN'S TRUMPETER. An a.s.s when braying.
SPANISH WORM. A nail: so called by carpenters when they meet with one in a board they are sawing.
SPANKS, or SPANKERS. Money; also blows with the open hand.
SPANKING. Large.
SPARK. A spruce, trim, or smart fellow. A man that is always thirsty, is said to have a spark in his throat.
SPARKISH. Fine, gay.
SPARKING BLOWS. Blows given by c.o.c.ks before they close, or, as the term is, mouth it: used figuratively for words previous to a quarrel.
