A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words - Hotten John Camden

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a churche.

      AUTEM MORTES, married wemen as chaste as a cowe.

      BAUDYE BASKETS, bee women who goe with baskets and capcases on their armes, wherein they have laces, pinnes, nedles, whyte inkel, and round sylke gyrdels of all colours.

      BECK [Beek], a constable.

      BELLY-CHETE, apron.

      BENE, good. Benar, better.

      BENSHIP, very good.

      BLETING CHETE, a calfe or sheepe.

      BOOGET, a travelling tinker’s baskete.

      BORDE, a shilling.

      BOUNG, a purse [Friesic, pong].

      BOWSE, drink.

      BOWSING-KEN, a alehouse.

      BUFE [buffer, a man], a dogge.

      BYNGE A WASTE, go you hence.

      CACKLING-CHETE, a coke [cock], or capon.

      CASSAN [cassam], cheese.

      CASTERS, a cloake.

      CATETH, “the vpright Cofe cateth to the Roge” [probably a shortening or misprint of Canteth].

      CHATTES, the gallowes.

      CHETE [see what has been previously said about this word].

      CLY [a pocket], to take, receive, or have.

      COFE [cove], a person.

      COMMISSION [mish], a shirt.

      COUNTERFET CRANKE, these that do counterfet the Cranke be yong knaves and yonge harlots, that deeply dissemble the falling sicknes.

      CRANKE [cranky, foolish], falling evil [or wasting sickness].

      CRASHING-CHETES, teeth.

      CUFFEN, a manne [a cuif in Northumberland and Scotland signifies a lout or awkward fellow].

      DARKEMANS, the night.

      DELL, a yonge wench.

      DEWSE-A-VYLE, the countrey.

      DOCK, to deflower.

      DOXES, harlots.

      DRAWERS, hosen.

      DUDES [or dudds], clothes.

      FAMBLES, handes.

      FAMBLING-CHETE, a ring on one’s hand.

      FLAGG, a groat.

      FRATER, a beggar wyth a false paper.

      FRESHE-WATER-MARINERS, these kind of caterpillers counterfet great losses on the sea: – their shippes were drowned in the playne of Salisbury.

      FYLCHE, to robbe: Fylch-man [a robber].

      GAGE, a quart pot.

      GAN, a mouth.

      GENTRY COFE, a noble or gentle man.

      GENTRY-COFES-KEN, a noble or gentle man’s house.

      GENTRY MORT, a noble or gentle woman.

      GERRY, excrement.

      GLASYERS, eyes.

      GLYMMAR, fyer.

      GRANNAM, corne.

      GRUNTING-CHETE, a pygge.

      GYB, a writing.

      GYGER [jigger], a dore.

      HEARING-CHETES, eares.

      JARKE, a seale.

      JARKEMAN, one who make writings and set seales for [counterfeit] licences and pasports.

      KEN, a house.

      KYNCHEN CO [or cove], a young boye trained up like a “Kynching Morte.” [From the German diminutive Kindschen.]

      KYNCHING MORTE, is a little gyrle, carried at their mothers’ backe in a slate, or sheete, who brings them up sauagely.

      LAG, water.

      LAG OF DUDES, a bucke [or basket] of clothes.

      LAGE, to washe.

      LAP, butter, mylke, or whey.

      LIGHTMANS, the day.

      LOWING-CHETE, a cowe.

      LOWRE, money.

      LUBBARES, – “sturdy Lubbares,” country bumpkins, or men of a low degree.

      LYB-BEG, a bed.

      LYCKE [lick], to beate.

      LYP, to lie down.

      LYPKEN, a house to lye in.

      MAKE [mag], a halfpenny.

      MARGERI PRATER, a hen.

      MILLING, to steale [by sending a child in at the window].

      MOFLING-CHETE, a napkin.

      MORTES [motts], harlots.

      MYLL, to robbe.

      MYNT, gold.

      NAB [nob], a heade.

      NABCHET, a hat or cap.

      NASE, dronken.

      NOSEGENT, a nunne.

       PALLYARD, a borne beggar [who counterfeits sickness, or incurable sores. They are mostly Welshmen, Harman says].

      PARAM, mylke.

      PATRICO, a priest.

      PATRICOS KINCHEN, a pygge [a satirical hit at the church, Patrico meaning a parson or priest, and Kinchen his little boy or girl].

      PEK [peckish], meat.

      POPPELARS, porrage.

      PRAT, a buttocke.

      PRATLING-CHETE, a toung.

      PRAUNCER, a horse.

      PRIGGER OF PRAUNCERS, be horse stealers, for to prigge signifieth in their language to steale, and a Prauncer is a horse, so being put together, the matter was playn. [Thus writes old Thomas Harman, who concludes his description of this order of “pryggers,” by very quietly saying, “I had the best gelding stolen out of my pasture, that I had amongst others, whyle this book was first a printing.”]

      PRYGGES, dronken Tinkers, or beastly people.

      QUACKING-CHETE, a drake or duck.

      QUAROMES, a body.

      QUIER [queer], badde [see what has been previously said about this word].

      QUYER CRAMP-RINGES, boltes or fetters.

      QUIER CUFFIN, the iustice of peace.

      QUYER-KYN, a pryson house.

      RED SHANKE, a drake or ducke.

      ROGER, a goose.

      ROME, goode [now curious, noted, or remarkable in any way. Rum is the modern orthography].

      ROME BOUSE [rum booze], wyne.

      ROME MORT, the Queene [Elizabeth].

      ROME VYLE [or Rum-ville], London.

      RUFF PECK, baken [short bread, common in old times at farm houses].

      RUFFMANS, the woods or bushes.

      SALOMON, a alter or masse.

      SKYPPER, a barne.

       SLATE, a sheete or shetes.

      SMELLING

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