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the many. See PLUCK, APOSTLES, &C.
WRAP RASCAL. A red cloak, called also a roquelaire.
WRAPT UP IN WARM FLANNEL. Drunk with spirituous liquors. He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother's smock; saying of any one remarkable for his success with the ladies. To be wrapt up in any one: to have a good opinion of him, or to be under his influence.
WRINKLE. A wrinkle-bellied wh.o.r.e; one who has had a number of b.a.s.t.a.r.ds: child-bearing leaves wrinkles in a woman's belly. To take the wrinkles out of any one's belly; to fill it out by a hearty meal. You have one wrinkle more in your a-se; i.e. you have one piece of knowledge more than you had, every fresh piece of knowledge being supposed by the vulgar naturalists to add a wrinkle to that part.
WRY MOUTH AND A p.i.s.sEN PAIR OF BREECHES. Hanging.
WRY NECK DAY. Hanging day.
WYN. See WIN.
XANTIPPE. The name of Socrates's wife: now used to signify a shrew or scolding wife.
YAFFLING. Eating. CANT.
TO YAM. To eat or stuff heartily.
YANKEY, or YANKEY DOODLE. A b.o.o.by, or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. A general appellation for an American.
YARMOUTH CAPON. A red herring: Yarmouth is a famous place for curing herrings.
YARMOUTH COACH. A kind of low two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse, not much unlike an Irish car.
YARMOUTH PYE. A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to the king.
YARUM. Milk. CANT.
YEA AND NAY MAN. A quaker, a simple fellow, one who can only answer yes, or no.
YELLOW. To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and finding me with his wife, he began to look confounded blue, and was, I thought, a little yellow.
YELLOW BELLY. A native of the Fens of Licoins.h.i.+re; an allusion to the eels caught there.
YELLOW BOYS. Guineas.
TO YELP. To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions.
YEST. A contraction of yesterday.
YOKED. Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour performed at one spell by husbandmen, the day's work being divided in summer into three yokes. Kentish term.
YORKs.h.i.+RE TYKE. A Yorks.h.i.+re clown. To come Yorks.h.i.+re over any one; to cheat him.
YOUNG ONE. A familiar expression of contempt for another's ignorance, as "ah! I see you're a young one." How d'ye do, young one?
TO YOWL. To cry aloud, or howl.
ZAD. Crooked like the letter Z. He is a mere zad, or perhaps zed; a description of a very crooked or deformed person.
ZANY. The jester, jack pudding, or merry andrew, to a mountebank.
ZEDLAND. Great part of the west country, where the letter Z is subst.i.tuted for S; as zee for see, zun for sun,
