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Entries releated to BAWD

 

ABBESS, or LADY ABBESS		A bawd, the mistress of a brothel.
ALTAMEL		A verbal or lump account, without particulars, such as is commonly produced at bawdy-houses, spunging-houses, etc. Vide DUTCH RECKONING.
AUNT		Mine aunt; a bawd or procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for instructresses, midwives, etc. for the dells. See DELLS.
BAWD		A female procuress.
BAWDY BASKET		The twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads, and obscene books to sell, but live mostly by stealing.
BAWDY-HOUSE BOTTLE		A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, to gain what they call an honest livelihood: indeed this is one of the least reprehensible; the less they give a man of their infernal beverages for his money, the kinder they behave to him.
BORDELLO		A bawdy house.
BULLY BACK		A bully to a bawdy-house; one who is kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the house to submit to the impositions of the mother abbess, or bawd; and who also sometimes pretends to be the husband of one of the ladies, and under that pretence extorts money from greenhorns, or ignorant young men, whom he finds with her. See GREENHORN.
BUTTOCK BROKER		A bawd, or match-maker.
CAB		A brothel. Mother: how many tails have you in your cab? how many girls have you in your bawdy house?
CARTING		The punishment formerly inflicted on bawds, who were placed in a tumbrel or cart, and led through a town, that their persons might be known.
CASE VROW		A prostitute attached to a particular bawdy house.
CAVAULTING SCHOOL		A Bawdy-house.
CIVIL RECEPTION		A house of civil reception; a bawdy-house, or nanny-house. See NANNY-HOUSE.
COCK BAWD		A male keeper of a bawdy-house.
COCK PIMP		The supposed husband of a bawd.
CORINTH		A bawdy-house.
COVENT GARDEN ABBESS		A bawd.
CREW		A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words: MEN. 1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams. WOMEN. 1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes
DUTCH RECKONING, or ALLE-MAL		A verbal or lump account, without particulars, as brought at spungiug or bawdy houses.
FEN		A bawd, or common prostitute.
FLASH MAN		A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.
FLASH PANNEYS		Houses to which thieves and prostitutes resort. Next for his favourite MOT (Girl) the KIDDEY (Youth) looks about, And if she's in a FLASH PANNEY (Brothel) he swears he'll have her out; So he FENCES (Pawns) all his TOGS (Cloathes) to buy her DUDS, (Wearing Apparel) and then He FRISKS (Robs) his master's LOB (Till) to take her from the bawdy KEN (House).
FLESH BROKER		A match-maker, a bawd.
FREE AND EASY JOHNS		A society which meet at the Hole in the Wall, Fleet-street, to tipple porter, and sing bawdry.
GAME		Bubbles or pigeons drawn in to be cheated. Also, at bawdy-houses, lewd women. Mother have you any game; mother, have you any girls? To die game; to suffer at the gallows without shewing any signs of fear or repentance. Game pullet; a young whore, or forward girl in the way of becoming one.
GO BETWEEN		A pimp or bawd.
HARRIDAN		A hagged old woman; a miserable, scraggy, worn-out harlot, fit to take her bawd's degree: derived from the French word HARIDELLE, a worn-out jade of a horse or mare.
HEDGE WHORE		An itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios and bawdy-houses, by disposing of her favours on the wayside, under a hedge; a low beggarly prostitute.
MACKEREL		A bawd: from the French maquerel. Mackerel- backed; long-backed.
MOTHER OF THE MAIDS		A bawd.
MOTHER, or THE MOTHER		A bawd. Mother abbess: the same. Mother midnight; a midwife. Mother in law's bit; a small piece, mothers in law being supposed not apt to overload the stomachs of their husband's children.
NUNNERY		A bawdy house.
PICKT HATCH		To go to the manor of pickt hatch, a cant name for some part of the town noted for bawdy houses in Shakespeare's time, and used by him in that sense.
PIMP		A male procurer, or cock bawd; also a small faggot used about London for lighting fires, named from introducing the fire to the coals.
SCHOOL OF VENUS		A bawdy-house.
SERAGLIO		A bawdy-house; the name of that part of the Great Turk's palace where the women are kept.
SHE NAPPER		A woman thief-catcher; also a bawd or pimp.
SMUGGLING KEN		A bawdy-house.
SMUT		Bawdy. Smutty story; an indecent story.
UNWASHED BAWDRY		Rank bawdry.
VAULTING SCHOOL		A bawdy-house; also an academy where vaulting and other manly exercises are taught.
WARREN		One that is security for goods taken up on credit by extravagant young gentlemen. Cunny warren; a girl's boarding-school, also a bawdy-house.