Alphabetical index to the
Mercurius Fumigosus Slang Lexicon


 

Baggage(s).

Bantling.

Bauble(s).

Beard.

Big Bellied.

Billingsgate.

Black Guard.

Blind Cheeks.

Bonsing/Bonser(s).

Brazen Face/Faced.

Brewer’s Dog/Spaniel (to be bitten by)..

Bubb(-s)(-ed)(-ing).

Bubby.

Buckle and Thong, to tie as fast as.

Bum.

Burnt.

Butcher’s Dog.

Callow Bearded.

Carbanadoed/Carbonadoed.

Cartloads.

Catchpoll.

Caterpillars

Chink.

Cit/Citt/Citts.

Clack.

Clicketts, to play (a game) at.

Coney1.

Coney2.

Cooler.

Crack of the/her Nail.

Crack(ing) a Pot.

Creature, the.

Crump-backed.

Crupper.

Cuckold’s Haven.

Cuckoldshire.

Cuddle me cuddle.

Cull.

Cunny.

Cup Shot.

Cut In The Leg.

Cut/Shaved of the simples.

Cutpurses.

Dick.

Dog’s Tricks.

Drabs

Drop A Tail Of Green Fish.

Dun(n)(s).

Duty.

Elevated.

Fort.

Four Eyes.

French Disease.

Fubbs.

Fuddle.

Fumbler’s Hall.

Gatehouse.

Gizzard, grumbling in her.

Good-fellow(s).

Goose.

Grannum (to bite one’s).

Gravel Carriers/Gravel Pit.

Gregory/Gregory’s/Greg Hangman

Gripe/Griped/Griping.

Grub Street.

Gunpowder Ale.

Halter.

Hay (to make)

Hector(s).

Hedge Sparrow.

Henpeck/Henpecked/Henpecking.

Hob(b)(s).

Hoopetdehoyes.

Hopper-arsed.

Horse-leech.

In(n) and In(n).

Instrument of Generation.

Job(e)’s Ward.

Knockers.

Legless.

Long-tail.

Long-winded.

Lull.

Maunded/Maunder.

Moss.

Moss’s Mare, to be caught napping like.

Muck-sweat.

Muck-worm:

Mustard Pot.

Nag(s).

Naples Biscuit and (a Pair of) Macaroons.

Nigget Water.

Nubbing.

Paddington (Fair) (Day).

Picked/Pickt Hatch.

Pinnace.

Pizzles.

Placket Well.

Pot Shot.

Prick-louse.

Put To Squeak.

Quean(s).

Rack and Manger, to lie/stand at.

Ride cut, to.

Rum Cullee.

Sixes.

Smug.

Snuff, to take.

Stone Priest.

Super-naculum.

Swarm of bees that lighted (on the fancies/codpiece).

Taphole.

Timbersome.

Tooping School/Tooping Crew.

Touch-hole.

Trappaned/Trappaners/Trappans.

Trap-stick.

Trull(s).

Tub + man/men/women/preacher.

Vaulting School(s).

Wagtail.

Whipster.

Wicked Door.

Widgeon.

Wild Mare, (to hunt/horse/catch the).

Winchester Goose.

Wind Up (One’s) Bottom.

Worm.

 

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