Traitor

A Lexicon of Vagabond Slang

Abram: naked

Betty: picklock

Bleating cheat: sheep

Bubble-buff: bailiff

Bube: pox

Chive: knife

Clapperdudgeon: someone born a beggar

Collar the cole: lay hold of the money

Cull: a fool

Dads: old man

Dell: a young wench not yet broken by the Upright Man

Elf: little

Fambles: Hands

Fencer: receiver of stolen goods

Fog: smoke

Gage: excise man

Grub: food

Hog: shilling

Horsebread: poor-quality bread made of beans or bran, designed for horses

Hum: strong

Jem: ring

Jet: lawyer

Kick: sixpence

Kin: thief

Leake: Welshman

Mauks: whore

Mish: smock

Mort: a female

Mort of Rome: the Queen of England

Nan: maid of a house

Nap: an arrest

Nimming: stealing

Nip a bung: cut a purse

Otter: sailor

Plant the whids: mind what you say

Popps: pistols

Ruffmans: woods

Rumbo ken: pawnbroker

Rum mort: fine woman

Shark: to swindle; prey upon

Smeer: painter

Snaffler: highwayman

Tip: give

Tit: horse

Tom Pat: parson

Tout: take heed

Tripe: belly

Wobble: to boil

Yam: to eat

Yelp: town crier

Zad: crooked