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Entries releated to CULL

 

ARK		A boat or wherry. Let us take an ark and winns, let us take a sculler.
AWAKE		Acquainted with, knowing the business. Stow the books, the culls are awake; hide the cards, the fellows know what we intended to do.
BIT		Money. He grappled the cull's bit; he seized the man's money. A bit is also the smallest coin in Jamaica, equal to about sixpence sterling.
BITE		A cheat; also a woman's privities. The cull wapt the mort's bite; the fellow enjoyed the wench heartily.
BLEEDING CULLY		One who parts easily with his money, or bleeds freely.
BLUBBER		The mouth. - I have stopped the cull's blubber; I have stopped the fellow's mouth, meant either by gagging or murdering him.
CACKLE		To blab, or discover secrets. The cull is leaky, and cackles; the rogue tells all. See LEAKY.
CAT MATCH		When a rook or cully is engaged amongst bad bowlers.
CHAUNTER CULLS		Grub-street writers, who compose songs, carrols, etc. for ballad-singers.
CLEAR		Very drunk. The cull is clear, let's bite him; the fellow is very drunk, let's cheat him.
CLERKED		Soothed, funned, imposed on. The cull will not be clerked; i.e. the fellow will not be imposed on by fair words.
CLICKET		Copulation of foxes; and thence used, in a canting sense, for that of men and women: as, The cull and the mort are at clicket in the dyke; the man and woman are copulating in the ditch.
COG		A tooth. A queer cog; a rotten tooth. How the cull flashes his queer cogs; how the fool shews his rotten teeth.
CONTENT		The cull's content; the man is past complaining: a saying of a person murdered for resisting the robbers.
CRACKMANS		Hedges. The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw; the man thought to have escaped by breaking through the hedge, but we brought him back by a great blow on the head, which laid him speechless.
CRASH		To kill. Crash that cull; kill that fellow.
CULL		A man, honest or otherwise. A bob cull; a good- natured, quiet fellow.
CULLABILITY		A disposition liable to be cheated, an unsuspecting nature, open to imposition.
CULLY		A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead.
CUTTY-EYE		To look out of the corners of one's eyes, to leer, to look askance. The cull cutty-eyed at us; the fellow looked suspicious at us.
DARK CULLY		A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery.
DAWB		To bribe. The cull was scragged because he could not dawb; the rogue was hanged because he could not bribe. All bedawbed with lace; all over lace.
DIDDLE		To cheat. To defraud. The cull diddled me out of my dearee; the fellow robbed me of my sweetheart. See Jeremy Diddler In Raising The Wind.
DOCK		To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell all the darkmans; the fellow laid with the wench all night. Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis from a venereal complaint. He must go into dock; a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken of must undergo a salivation. Docking is also a punishment inflicted by sailors on the prostitutes who have infected them with the venereal disease; it consists in cutting off all their clothes, petticoats, shift and all, close to their stays, and then turning them into the street.
EASY		Make the cull easy or quiet; gag or kill him. As easy as pissing the bed.
EQUIPT		Rich; also, having new clothes. Well equipt; full of money, or well dressed. The cull equipped me with a brace of meggs; the gentleman furnished me with. a couple of guineas.
FAGGOT		A man hired at a muster to appear as a soldier. To faggot in the canting sense, means to bind: an allusion to the faggots made up by the woodmen, which are all bound. Faggot the culls; bind the men.
FAT CULL		A rich fellow.
FLOGGING CULLY		A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one.
FLUSH IN THE POCKET		Full of money. The cull is flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money.
FOOLISH		An expression among impures, signifying the cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man. Is he foolish or flash?
GOLGOTHA OR THE PLACE OF SCULLS		Part of the Theatre at Oxford, where the heads of houses sit; those gentlemen being by the wits of the university called sculls.
GREEN		Young, inexperienced, unacquainted; ignorant. How green the cull was not to stag how the old file planted the books. How ignorant the booby was not to perceive how the old sharper placed the cards in such a manner as to insure the game.
HEAD CULLY OF THE PASS, or PASSAGE BANK		The top tilter of that gang throughout the whole army, who demands and receives contribution from all the pass banks in the camp.
HUNG BEEF		A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fellow with a bull's pizzle.
HUSH		Hush the cull; murder the fellow.
JOWL		The cheek. Cheek by jowl; close together, or cheek to cheek. My eyes how the cull sucked the blowen's jowl; he kissed the wench handsomely.
KEEPING CULLY		One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public.
KIMBAW		To trick, cheat or cozen; also to beat or to bully. Let's kimbaw the cull; let's bully the fellow. To set one's arms a-kimbaw, vulgarly pronounced a-kimbo, is to rest one's hands on the hips, keeping the elbows square, and sticking out from the body; an insolent bullying attitude.
MADGE CULLS		Sodomites.
MELT		To spend. Will you melt a borde? will you spend a shilling? The cull melted a couple of decusses upon us; the gentleman spent a couple of crowns upon us.
MILLING COVE		A boxer. How the milling cove served the cull out; how the boxer beat the fellow.
MUD		A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. See DUNG.
MUZZLER		A violent blow on the mouth. The milling cove tipped the cull a muzzler; the boxer gave the fellow a blow on the mouth.
NUMBSCULL		A stupid fellow.
NUTCRACKERS		The pillory: as, The cull peeped through the nutcrackers.
NUTS		Fond; pleased. She's nuts upon her cull; she's pleased with her cully. The cove's nutting the blowen; the man is trying to please the girl.
OLIVER'S SCULL		A chamber pot.
PAPER SCULL		A thin-scull'd foolish fellow.
PEERY		Inquisitive, suspicious. The cull's peery; that fellow suspects something. There's a peery, tis snitch we are observed, there's nothing to be done.
POPS		Pistols. Popshop: a pawnbroker's shop. To pop; to pawn: also to shoot. I popped my tatler; I pawned my watch. I popt the cull; I shot the man. His means are two pops and a galloper; that is, he is a highwayman.
POUND		To beat. How the milling cove pounded the cull for being nuts on his blowen; how the boxer beat the fellow for taking liberties with his mistress.
QUEER, or QUIRE		Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless. How queerly the cull touts; how roguishly the fellow looks. It also means odd, uncommon.
RIBBIN		Money. The ribbin runs thick; i.e. there is plenty of money. Blue ribbin. Gin. The cull lushes the blue ribbin; the silly fellow drinks common gin.
RIDGE		A guinea. Ridge cully; a goldsmith.
RIGGING		Clothing. I'll unrig the bloss; I'll strip the wench. Rum Rigging; fine clothes. The cull has rum rigging, let's ding him and mill him, and pike; the fellow has good clothes, let's knock him down, rob him, and scour off, i.e. run away.
RUM CULL		A rich fool, easily cheated, particularly by his mistress.
SAPSCULL		A simple fellow. Sappy; foolish.
SCALDER		A clap. The cull has napped a scalder; the fellow has got a clap.
SCRIP		A scrap or slip of paper. The cully freely blotted the scrip, and tipt me forty hogs; the man freely signed the bond, and gave me forty shillings. - Scrip is also a Change Alley phrase for the last loan or subscription. What does scrip go at for the next rescounters? what does scrip sell for delivered at the next day of settling?
SCULL		A head of a house, or master of a college, at the universities.
SCULL THATCHER		A peruke-maker.
SCULL, or SCULLER		A boat rowed by one man with a light kind of oar, called a scull; also a one-horse chaise or buggy.
SERVED		Found guilty. Convicted. Ordered to be punished or transported. To serve a cull out; to beat a man soundly.
SNILCH		To eye, or look at any thing attentively: the cull snilches.
SPEAK WITH		To rob. I spoke with the cull on the cherry-coloured prancer; I robbed the man on the black horse.
STOOP		The pillory. The cull was served for macing and napp'd the stoop; he was convicted of swindling, and put in the pillory.
TACKLE		A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mistress good clothes. A man's tackle: the genitals.
TAYLE DRAWERS		Thieves who snatch gentlemens swords from their sides. He drew the cull's tayle rumly; he snatched away the gentleman's sword cleverly.
TWIG		To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, snap asunder, or break off. To twig the darbies; to knock off the irons.
WHIDDLE		To tell or discover. He whiddles; he peaches. He whiddles the whole scrap; he discovers all he knows. The cull whiddled because they would not tip him a snack: the fellow peached because they would not give him a share, They whiddle beef, and we must brush; they cry out thieves, and we must make off.
WIN		To steal. The cull has won a couple of rum glimsticks; the fellow has stolen a pair of fine candlesticks.
WITCHES		Silver. Witcher bubber; a silver bowl. Witcher tilter; a silver-hilted sword. Witcher cully; a silversmith.