The Letter Q

QUACKING-Cheat

a Duck.

QUAIL Pipe

a Woman's Tongue.

QUAKING Cheat

a Calf or Sheep.

QUARREL Picker

a Glazier.

QUARRON

a Body.

QUEAN

a Whore or Slut. A dirty Quean, a Puzzle or Slut.

QUEERE

or Quire

base, roguish, naught. How queerely the Cull Trouts? How roguishly the Fellow loocks.

QUEERE-Birds

such as having got loose, return to their old Trade of roguing and thieving.

QUEERE Bluffer

a sneaking sharping, Cut-throat Ale-house Man or Inn-keeper.

QUEERE-Bung

an empty Purse.

QUEERE-Clout

a sorry old Handkerchief, not worth nimming.

QUEERE-Cole

clipt, counterfeit Money.

QUEERE Cole-maker

a false Coiner.

QUEERE Cole-fencer

a Receiver and Putter off of false Money.

QUEERE-Cove

a Rogue.

QUEERE-Cussin

a Justice of Peace; also a churl.

QUEERE-Cull

a Fop or Fool, a Cods-head; also a shabby poor Fellow.

QUEERE Degen

an Iron, Steel or Brass hilted Sword.

QUEERE-Diver

a bungling Pick-pocket.

QUEERE-Doxy

a jilting Jade, a sorry shabby Wench.

QUEERE-Drawers

Yarn, or coarse Worsted, ordinary or old Stockings.

QUEERE-Duke

a poor decayed Gentleman, also a lean, thin, half-starved Fellow.

QUEERE-Fun

a bungling Cheat or Trick; also Game or Merriment.

QUEERE-Ken

an ill House, a Prison or a place of Correction.

QUEERE-Kicks

course ordinary or old tattered Breeches.

QUEERE-Mort

a dirty Drab, a jilting Wench, a pocky Jade.

QUEERE Nab

a Felt, Carolina Cloth or ordinary Hat.

QUEERE-Peepers

old-fashioned, ordinary or common Looking glasses.

QUEERE-Prancer

a foundered Jade, an ordinary low prized Horse: also a cowardly or faint hearted Horse-stealer.

QUEERE-Topping

sorry Head-dresses.

To QUIBBLE

to trifle or pun.

Sir QUIBBLE-Queere

a trifling, silly shatter-brained Fellow; a meer Wittol or Punter, likewise a Whiffler.

QUIDDS

Cash, or ready Money. Can you tip me any Quidds? Can you lend me any Money.

QUOD

Newgate; also a Prison, tho' generally for Debt. The Poor Dabs in the Quod. the poor Rogue is in Limbo.

QUOTA

Snack, Share, Part, Proportion or Dividend.