Post by StoryTeller on Jan 22, 2006 6:05:13 GMT
-M-
Mad Tom: a beggar who feigns madness
Made: stolen
Made man: a member of the thieves guild
Maunding: begging
Milch cow: one who is easily tricked out of his money
Moabites: bailiffs
Mobility: the commoners Intended as a pun on 'nobility'
Moon curser: a thief who uses the darkness as cover for his crime
Moon men: gipsies
Morning drop: the gallows
Mort: a woman
Moss: lead stolen off the top of buildings
Mot: see Mort
Myrmidons: constables
-N-
Nab: to seize
Nab the stoop: to be put in the stocks
Napper: a cheat or thief
Napper of naps: a sheep stealer
Natty lads: young thieves or pickpockets
Neck weed: hemp to be made into rope
Needle point: a card sharper
New drop: the gallows
Newman's lift: the gallows
Nig: the metal clipped off a coin by a criminal
Night magistrate: a constable
Nim: to steal or pilfer
Nip: a cheat
Noisy dog racket: the crime of stealing brass door knockers from doors
Noozed: hanged (or married)
Nose: a criminal who gives evidence against his colleagues in
order to gain a lighter sentence
Nubbing: hanging
Nubbing cheat: the gallows
Nubbing cove: the hangman
Nubbing ken: the courthouse
Nypper: a cutpurse
-O-
Oak: a rich man
Oaken towel: a cudgel
Office: to "give office" is to tell constables of a thieves
activities
Old hand: an experienced thief
Onion: a seal or signet ring
Overseer: a man in the pillory or stocks
-P-
Pad: the highway
Pad borrowers: horse thieves
Palaver: a tale told in order avoid blame for a crime
Panny: house
Parenthesis: the stocks
Parings: the metal clipped off a coin by a criminal
Patter flash: to use thieves cant
Paum: conceal in the hand
Peach: turn informer
Peeper: a spying glass (Telescope?)
Penance board: the pillory
Petty fogger: a lawyer willing to undertake any case
Pig: an officer of the law
Pigeon: a person easy to cheat
Plate: money, silver, gold etc
Poney: money
Pop: pawn
Pop shop: pawnbrokers
Porridge: prison
Posse mobilitatis: a mob chasing a criminal
Poulterer: a man who opens mail and steals the money enclosed within
Pound: prison
Prad lay: the act of cutting the saddlebags of horses in order
to steal their contents
Prad: a horse
Prig: a thief
Prig napper: one who catches thieves A bounty hunter
Priggers: thieves:
Priggers of
prancers: horse thieves
Priggers of
cacklers: robbers of henhouses
Prince Prig: head of a group of thieves or gipsies
Provendor: the victim of a thief
Public ledger: a prostitute
Pull: arrest
Puzzle-cause: a lawyer who does not understand the case
-Q-
Quarromes: a body
Queer: "To queer" means to confuse someone
Queer bail: someone who pretends to have money in order to act as surety
for an arrested person. When the person is released they
disappear
Queer birds: a person who when released from prison returns to a
life of crime
Queer bit makers: counterfeiters of coins
Queer bung: an empty purse
Queer cove: a thief
Queer cuffin: a justice of the peace
Queer ken: a prison
Queer mort: a diseased prostitute
Quod: prison
Quota: a thieves share of the booty
-R-
Rag: paper money
Rank rider: a highwayman
Rap: taking a false oath
Rascal: rogue or villain
Rat: an informer To turn informer
Rattling cove: a coachman
Rattling mumpers: beggars who beg from coaches
Reader: a pocket book or purse
Reader merchants: pickpockets
Ready: money
Recruiting
service: highway robbery
Repository: a gaol
Resurrection men: those employed by scientists to steal bodies from
churchyards
Rhino: money
Ribbin: money
Ringing the
changes: exchanging silver coins for those made of less
valuable metal
Roast: arrest
Robert's men: successful thieves
Rot gut: cheap spiritous liquor
Rovers: pirates, wandering thieves
Rub: run away
Ruffles: chains or shackles
Rufflers: beggars who pretend to be wounded soldiers or sailors
Rug: safe and secure
Rum: fine, good, valuable
Rum beck: a justice of the peace
Rum bite: a clever trick
Rum bob: a skilled apprentice thief
Rum bung: a full purse
Rum cod: a purse filled with gold
Rum diver: a skilled pickpocket
Rum dubber: a skilled lock picker
Rum file: a skilled pickpocket
Rum fun: a clever trick
Rum pad: the highway
Rum padders: skilled and successful highwaymen
Rum prancer: a good horse
Rushers: home invaders
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Salmon: an oath taken by a beggar
Scapegallows: one who deserves and has escaped the gallows
Scragged: hanged
Scragg'em fair: a public execution
Screw: a lock pick or skeleton key
Sham: a trick
Sharper: a con man
Sheriff's
journeyman: hangman
Sheriff's ball: an execution
Sheriff's hotel: prison
Sheriff's picture
frame: gallows
Shop: prison
Shoplifter: one who steals from a shop
Sing: call out, inform
Slang: chains or shackles
Slang: thieves cant
Slipgibbet: see Scapegallows
Snap the glaze: break a window
Snapt: captured
Sneak: a pilferer
Snoozing ken: brothel
Sop: a bribe
Spring-ankle
warehouse: prison
Squeak: escape "To squeak" means to confess
Squeakers: organ pipes
Stalling ken: place where stolen goods can be sold
Star the glaze: break a jewellers window
Stoop: the pillory
Stop hole abbey: the central hideout or guild hall for a thieves guild
Stretching: hanging
Stuling ken: see Stalling ken
Swaddler: a thief who beats and murders his victims
Swag: booty
Sweating: removing metal from a coin, by using chemicals
Swing: hang
-T-
Tail: a prostitute
Tayle drawers: a thief who steals swords from a mans belt
Teize: a flogging
Thatch-gallows: a man of poor character
Thief takers: someone who associates with thieves in order to arrest them
and obtain rewards
Three-legged mare: the gallows
Three legged
stool: the gallows
Tom of Bedlam: see Mad Tom
Topping cheat: the gallows
Topping cove: hangman
Touch: arrest
Trounce: punish
Tucked up: hanged
Turncoat: one who has betrayed his friends
Turn off: hang
Twig: realise that something is up
Two to one shop: pawnbrokers
-U-
Underdubber: a prison guard
Upright Man: chief thief of a guild
Used up: killed
-V-
Vamp: pawn
Varlets: criminals
Vincent's law: the art of cheating at cards
Vowel: to write an IOU
-W-
Waterpad: river pirate
Wedge: silver plate
Whack: a share of booty obtained by fraud
Whip jacks: thieves who pretend to be sailors in order to gain free
passage on boats and ships
Wiper: handkerchief
Wiper drawer: a pickpocket who steals handkerchiefs
Wooden ruff: pillory
Wry neck day: day of execution
-Y-
Yelp: cry out for the police
-Z-
Zad: a very crooked person
ENGLISH TO CANT
-A-
Abandoned person: blasted fellow, brimstone, lurch
Arrested: boned, hooked, nabbed, pulled, roasted, snapt, touched
-B-
Beer: bowse
Beggars: abram men, autem mort, dommerer, Mad Tom, rattling mumpers,
rufflers, Tom of Bedlam
Begging: angling for coppers, maunding
Boat: ark
Body: quarromes
Body thieves: ressurection men
Booty: quota, swag, whack
Brandy: bingo
Bribe: dawb, grease, hush money, sop
Brothel: academy, snoozing ken
-C-
Calf, stolen: blater
Call for police: cry beef
Cart: gaoler's coach
Cloak: calle
Club: jordain, oaken towel
Coach man: rattling cove
Coin, fake: button, dump
Coin shavings: nig, parings
Con: amuse, bilk, fob, fun, fuzz, hoodwink, sham
Con man: amuser, jack in a box, needle point, nip, sharper
Counterfeiter: bene feaker, figure dancer, queer bit maker
Counterfeited: confect
Counterfeiting: drawing the King's picture, sweating
Courthouse: nubbing ken
Criminals being
transported: barrow man, lag
Criminals in the
stocks: babes in the wood, nappered, overseer
Criminals with
hands burned: badge, charactered
Crow bar: Bess, Betty, ginny, jemmy
-D-
Danger: lay
Day: lightmans
Death sentence: cramp word
Dog: bufe
Drunk: clear
-E-
Escape: bing, burning the ken, hike, rub
-F-
Feign illness: sham abram
Follow: drag
Fool: Ben, cullability, gudgeon, gull, milch cow, pigeon, queer
-G-
Gallows: chatts, deadly nevergreen, Gregorian Tree, morning drop, new
drop, Newman's lift, nubbing cheat, sheriff's picture frame,
three legged mare, three legged stool, topping cheat
Gang: birds of a feather
Gipsies: cattle, moon men
Gloves: fams
Good: bene, rum
-H-
Hanged: acorn, artichoked, beilby's ball, cry thingyles, cropped,
dangled, frummagemmed, hearty choked, hempen fever,
ironmongers shop, jammed, leaf, noozed, nubbing, scragged,
stretched, swing, turned off
Hangman: Derrick, Jack Ketch, Ketch, nubbing cove, sheriff's
journeyman, topping cove
Hideout: dive, fencing ken, flash ken, stalling ken, stop hole abbey,
stuling ken
Highway: pad
Highwayman: colt, gentleman's master, high pad, knight of the road, land
pirate, rank rider
Highway robberry: recruiting service
Hit: click
Honest man: cull
House: ken, panny
Housebreaker: cracksman, draw latch, Ken Miller, Ken Cracker, rushers
-I-
Inform: cackle, long tongued, nose, office, peach, rat, sing
-J-
Judge etc: beak, fortune teller, queer cuffin
-K-
Kill: crash, use up
-L-
Lantern: darkee, glim
Lawyer: black box, cursitor, petty fogger, puzzle-case
Lead: moss
License: jukrum
Lie: amuse, gamon, palaver
Lock pick: charm, dub, kate, screw
Lock picker: gilt
Lock picking: black art, dub lay
-M-
Man: cove
Mistress of
brothel: abbess, aunt
Money: caravan, iron, King's pictures, lowre, plate, poney, rag,
ready, rhino, ribbin, wedge
Mugger: ding boy
Murder: hush
-N-
Naked: abram
Night: darkmans
-O-
Oath: cap, earnest, rap (false), salmon
-P-
Palming: fam lay, pauming
Pawn: pop, vamp
Pawnbrokers: pop shop, two to one shop
Pickpocket: Adam Tiler, anabaptist, autem divers, bung nipper, buzman,
foyst, natty lad, nypper, reader merchants
Picking pockets: dive, figging law, forking
Pocket: cly
Police officer: bandog, bus napper, bus napper kenchin, hamlet, harman,
moabites, myrmidons, night magistrate, pig
Priest: autem bawler
Prison: Bilboes, boarding school, porridge, pound, queer ken, quod,
repository, sheriff's hotel, shop, spring-ankle warehouse
Prison ship: floating hell
Prisoner: jail bird, queer birds
Prostitute: aunt, bat, bawd, buttock and file, cattle, fen, laced
mutton, public ledger, queer mort, tail
Purse: boung, dummee, reader
Purse, cut: boung nipper
-R-
Receiver of
stolen goods: family man, fence
Rich: equipt, oak
Ring: jem, onion
Riot: hubbub
-S-
Secure: rug
Shackles: darbies, King's plate, ruffles, slang
Sheep stealing: bleating rig
Shoplifter: Bob
Staff: jordain
Steal: bite, bite the blow, cloy, curbing law, heave, hoist, lift,
nim, prad lay
Stocks: Bilboes, parenthesis, penance board, wooden ruff
Stolen: ard, made
Swap: bug, ring the changes
-T-
Tavern owner: beggar maker
Theft: game
Theft of brass
weights: avoir du pois lay
Thief: Adam Tiler, anabaptist, anglers, ark ruffians, autem divers,
bawdy basket, blue pigeons, Bob, bubber, bufe napper, bung
nipper, buzman, canters, canting crew, Captain Sharp, clank
napper, cloyes, cracksman, draw latches, dromedary, f*gger,
fidlam ben, filcher, footpad, foyst, gallows bird, gilt,
glazier, hooker, kiddeys, little snakesman, lully priggers,
made man, moon curser, napper of naps, natty lads, nypper,
old hand, pad borrowers, poulterer, priggers, priggers of
prancers, priggers of cacklers, queer cove, reader merchant,
ressurection men, Robert's men, rovers, shoplifter, sneak,
swaddler, tayle drawer, waterpad, whip jack
Thief, head: Arch Rogue, Dimber Damber, Prince Prig, Upright Man
Thieves cant: flash lingo, gibberish, patter flash, slang
-V-
Victim: content, provendor
-W-
Whipping: air and exercise, cly the jerk, flogging, hue, teize
Whipping post: jigger
Widow: ace of spades, hempen widow (if husband was hanged)
Witness, fake: affidavit man, knight of the post
Woman: mort, mot
Wound: beef
Mad Tom: a beggar who feigns madness
Made: stolen
Made man: a member of the thieves guild
Maunding: begging
Milch cow: one who is easily tricked out of his money
Moabites: bailiffs
Mobility: the commoners Intended as a pun on 'nobility'
Moon curser: a thief who uses the darkness as cover for his crime
Moon men: gipsies
Morning drop: the gallows
Mort: a woman
Moss: lead stolen off the top of buildings
Mot: see Mort
Myrmidons: constables
-N-
Nab: to seize
Nab the stoop: to be put in the stocks
Napper: a cheat or thief
Napper of naps: a sheep stealer
Natty lads: young thieves or pickpockets
Neck weed: hemp to be made into rope
Needle point: a card sharper
New drop: the gallows
Newman's lift: the gallows
Nig: the metal clipped off a coin by a criminal
Night magistrate: a constable
Nim: to steal or pilfer
Nip: a cheat
Noisy dog racket: the crime of stealing brass door knockers from doors
Noozed: hanged (or married)
Nose: a criminal who gives evidence against his colleagues in
order to gain a lighter sentence
Nubbing: hanging
Nubbing cheat: the gallows
Nubbing cove: the hangman
Nubbing ken: the courthouse
Nypper: a cutpurse
-O-
Oak: a rich man
Oaken towel: a cudgel
Office: to "give office" is to tell constables of a thieves
activities
Old hand: an experienced thief
Onion: a seal or signet ring
Overseer: a man in the pillory or stocks
-P-
Pad: the highway
Pad borrowers: horse thieves
Palaver: a tale told in order avoid blame for a crime
Panny: house
Parenthesis: the stocks
Parings: the metal clipped off a coin by a criminal
Patter flash: to use thieves cant
Paum: conceal in the hand
Peach: turn informer
Peeper: a spying glass (Telescope?)
Penance board: the pillory
Petty fogger: a lawyer willing to undertake any case
Pig: an officer of the law
Pigeon: a person easy to cheat
Plate: money, silver, gold etc
Poney: money
Pop: pawn
Pop shop: pawnbrokers
Porridge: prison
Posse mobilitatis: a mob chasing a criminal
Poulterer: a man who opens mail and steals the money enclosed within
Pound: prison
Prad lay: the act of cutting the saddlebags of horses in order
to steal their contents
Prad: a horse
Prig: a thief
Prig napper: one who catches thieves A bounty hunter
Priggers: thieves:
Priggers of
prancers: horse thieves
Priggers of
cacklers: robbers of henhouses
Prince Prig: head of a group of thieves or gipsies
Provendor: the victim of a thief
Public ledger: a prostitute
Pull: arrest
Puzzle-cause: a lawyer who does not understand the case
-Q-
Quarromes: a body
Queer: "To queer" means to confuse someone
Queer bail: someone who pretends to have money in order to act as surety
for an arrested person. When the person is released they
disappear
Queer birds: a person who when released from prison returns to a
life of crime
Queer bit makers: counterfeiters of coins
Queer bung: an empty purse
Queer cove: a thief
Queer cuffin: a justice of the peace
Queer ken: a prison
Queer mort: a diseased prostitute
Quod: prison
Quota: a thieves share of the booty
-R-
Rag: paper money
Rank rider: a highwayman
Rap: taking a false oath
Rascal: rogue or villain
Rat: an informer To turn informer
Rattling cove: a coachman
Rattling mumpers: beggars who beg from coaches
Reader: a pocket book or purse
Reader merchants: pickpockets
Ready: money
Recruiting
service: highway robbery
Repository: a gaol
Resurrection men: those employed by scientists to steal bodies from
churchyards
Rhino: money
Ribbin: money
Ringing the
changes: exchanging silver coins for those made of less
valuable metal
Roast: arrest
Robert's men: successful thieves
Rot gut: cheap spiritous liquor
Rovers: pirates, wandering thieves
Rub: run away
Ruffles: chains or shackles
Rufflers: beggars who pretend to be wounded soldiers or sailors
Rug: safe and secure
Rum: fine, good, valuable
Rum beck: a justice of the peace
Rum bite: a clever trick
Rum bob: a skilled apprentice thief
Rum bung: a full purse
Rum cod: a purse filled with gold
Rum diver: a skilled pickpocket
Rum dubber: a skilled lock picker
Rum file: a skilled pickpocket
Rum fun: a clever trick
Rum pad: the highway
Rum padders: skilled and successful highwaymen
Rum prancer: a good horse
Rushers: home invaders
-S-
Salmon: an oath taken by a beggar
Scapegallows: one who deserves and has escaped the gallows
Scragged: hanged
Scragg'em fair: a public execution
Screw: a lock pick or skeleton key
Sham: a trick
Sharper: a con man
Sheriff's
journeyman: hangman
Sheriff's ball: an execution
Sheriff's hotel: prison
Sheriff's picture
frame: gallows
Shop: prison
Shoplifter: one who steals from a shop
Sing: call out, inform
Slang: chains or shackles
Slang: thieves cant
Slipgibbet: see Scapegallows
Snap the glaze: break a window
Snapt: captured
Sneak: a pilferer
Snoozing ken: brothel
Sop: a bribe
Spring-ankle
warehouse: prison
Squeak: escape "To squeak" means to confess
Squeakers: organ pipes
Stalling ken: place where stolen goods can be sold
Star the glaze: break a jewellers window
Stoop: the pillory
Stop hole abbey: the central hideout or guild hall for a thieves guild
Stretching: hanging
Stuling ken: see Stalling ken
Swaddler: a thief who beats and murders his victims
Swag: booty
Sweating: removing metal from a coin, by using chemicals
Swing: hang
-T-
Tail: a prostitute
Tayle drawers: a thief who steals swords from a mans belt
Teize: a flogging
Thatch-gallows: a man of poor character
Thief takers: someone who associates with thieves in order to arrest them
and obtain rewards
Three-legged mare: the gallows
Three legged
stool: the gallows
Tom of Bedlam: see Mad Tom
Topping cheat: the gallows
Topping cove: hangman
Touch: arrest
Trounce: punish
Tucked up: hanged
Turncoat: one who has betrayed his friends
Turn off: hang
Twig: realise that something is up
Two to one shop: pawnbrokers
-U-
Underdubber: a prison guard
Upright Man: chief thief of a guild
Used up: killed
-V-
Vamp: pawn
Varlets: criminals
Vincent's law: the art of cheating at cards
Vowel: to write an IOU
-W-
Waterpad: river pirate
Wedge: silver plate
Whack: a share of booty obtained by fraud
Whip jacks: thieves who pretend to be sailors in order to gain free
passage on boats and ships
Wiper: handkerchief
Wiper drawer: a pickpocket who steals handkerchiefs
Wooden ruff: pillory
Wry neck day: day of execution
-Y-
Yelp: cry out for the police
-Z-
Zad: a very crooked person
ENGLISH TO CANT
-A-
Abandoned person: blasted fellow, brimstone, lurch
Arrested: boned, hooked, nabbed, pulled, roasted, snapt, touched
-B-
Beer: bowse
Beggars: abram men, autem mort, dommerer, Mad Tom, rattling mumpers,
rufflers, Tom of Bedlam
Begging: angling for coppers, maunding
Boat: ark
Body: quarromes
Body thieves: ressurection men
Booty: quota, swag, whack
Brandy: bingo
Bribe: dawb, grease, hush money, sop
Brothel: academy, snoozing ken
-C-
Calf, stolen: blater
Call for police: cry beef
Cart: gaoler's coach
Cloak: calle
Club: jordain, oaken towel
Coach man: rattling cove
Coin, fake: button, dump
Coin shavings: nig, parings
Con: amuse, bilk, fob, fun, fuzz, hoodwink, sham
Con man: amuser, jack in a box, needle point, nip, sharper
Counterfeiter: bene feaker, figure dancer, queer bit maker
Counterfeited: confect
Counterfeiting: drawing the King's picture, sweating
Courthouse: nubbing ken
Criminals being
transported: barrow man, lag
Criminals in the
stocks: babes in the wood, nappered, overseer
Criminals with
hands burned: badge, charactered
Crow bar: Bess, Betty, ginny, jemmy
-D-
Danger: lay
Day: lightmans
Death sentence: cramp word
Dog: bufe
Drunk: clear
-E-
Escape: bing, burning the ken, hike, rub
-F-
Feign illness: sham abram
Follow: drag
Fool: Ben, cullability, gudgeon, gull, milch cow, pigeon, queer
-G-
Gallows: chatts, deadly nevergreen, Gregorian Tree, morning drop, new
drop, Newman's lift, nubbing cheat, sheriff's picture frame,
three legged mare, three legged stool, topping cheat
Gang: birds of a feather
Gipsies: cattle, moon men
Gloves: fams
Good: bene, rum
-H-
Hanged: acorn, artichoked, beilby's ball, cry thingyles, cropped,
dangled, frummagemmed, hearty choked, hempen fever,
ironmongers shop, jammed, leaf, noozed, nubbing, scragged,
stretched, swing, turned off
Hangman: Derrick, Jack Ketch, Ketch, nubbing cove, sheriff's
journeyman, topping cove
Hideout: dive, fencing ken, flash ken, stalling ken, stop hole abbey,
stuling ken
Highway: pad
Highwayman: colt, gentleman's master, high pad, knight of the road, land
pirate, rank rider
Highway robberry: recruiting service
Hit: click
Honest man: cull
House: ken, panny
Housebreaker: cracksman, draw latch, Ken Miller, Ken Cracker, rushers
-I-
Inform: cackle, long tongued, nose, office, peach, rat, sing
-J-
Judge etc: beak, fortune teller, queer cuffin
-K-
Kill: crash, use up
-L-
Lantern: darkee, glim
Lawyer: black box, cursitor, petty fogger, puzzle-case
Lead: moss
License: jukrum
Lie: amuse, gamon, palaver
Lock pick: charm, dub, kate, screw
Lock picker: gilt
Lock picking: black art, dub lay
-M-
Man: cove
Mistress of
brothel: abbess, aunt
Money: caravan, iron, King's pictures, lowre, plate, poney, rag,
ready, rhino, ribbin, wedge
Mugger: ding boy
Murder: hush
-N-
Naked: abram
Night: darkmans
-O-
Oath: cap, earnest, rap (false), salmon
-P-
Palming: fam lay, pauming
Pawn: pop, vamp
Pawnbrokers: pop shop, two to one shop
Pickpocket: Adam Tiler, anabaptist, autem divers, bung nipper, buzman,
foyst, natty lad, nypper, reader merchants
Picking pockets: dive, figging law, forking
Pocket: cly
Police officer: bandog, bus napper, bus napper kenchin, hamlet, harman,
moabites, myrmidons, night magistrate, pig
Priest: autem bawler
Prison: Bilboes, boarding school, porridge, pound, queer ken, quod,
repository, sheriff's hotel, shop, spring-ankle warehouse
Prison ship: floating hell
Prisoner: jail bird, queer birds
Prostitute: aunt, bat, bawd, buttock and file, cattle, fen, laced
mutton, public ledger, queer mort, tail
Purse: boung, dummee, reader
Purse, cut: boung nipper
-R-
Receiver of
stolen goods: family man, fence
Rich: equipt, oak
Ring: jem, onion
Riot: hubbub
-S-
Secure: rug
Shackles: darbies, King's plate, ruffles, slang
Sheep stealing: bleating rig
Shoplifter: Bob
Staff: jordain
Steal: bite, bite the blow, cloy, curbing law, heave, hoist, lift,
nim, prad lay
Stocks: Bilboes, parenthesis, penance board, wooden ruff
Stolen: ard, made
Swap: bug, ring the changes
-T-
Tavern owner: beggar maker
Theft: game
Theft of brass
weights: avoir du pois lay
Thief: Adam Tiler, anabaptist, anglers, ark ruffians, autem divers,
bawdy basket, blue pigeons, Bob, bubber, bufe napper, bung
nipper, buzman, canters, canting crew, Captain Sharp, clank
napper, cloyes, cracksman, draw latches, dromedary, f*gger,
fidlam ben, filcher, footpad, foyst, gallows bird, gilt,
glazier, hooker, kiddeys, little snakesman, lully priggers,
made man, moon curser, napper of naps, natty lads, nypper,
old hand, pad borrowers, poulterer, priggers, priggers of
prancers, priggers of cacklers, queer cove, reader merchant,
ressurection men, Robert's men, rovers, shoplifter, sneak,
swaddler, tayle drawer, waterpad, whip jack
Thief, head: Arch Rogue, Dimber Damber, Prince Prig, Upright Man
Thieves cant: flash lingo, gibberish, patter flash, slang
-V-
Victim: content, provendor
-W-
Whipping: air and exercise, cly the jerk, flogging, hue, teize
Whipping post: jigger
Widow: ace of spades, hempen widow (if husband was hanged)
Witness, fake: affidavit man, knight of the post
Woman: mort, mot
Wound: beef