WADDLE
to go like a Duck.
to go like a Duck.
arch, gamesome, pleasant.
a malkish, ill Taste.
to lie with a Man. If she won't wap for a Win, let her trine for a Make; if she won't lie with a Man for a Penny, let her hang for a Half-penny. Mort wap-apace; a Woman of Experience, or very expert at the Sport.
that has sore or running Eyes.
the Act of Coition.
well lined of flush in the Pocket.
an old fashion'd large Watch. A Scotch Warming-Pan; a She-bed-fellow.
he that is Security for Goods taken up on Credit, by extravagant young Gentlemen; also a Boarding-school, or a Bawdy-house, which are too much the same Thing.
Paint for Faces.
peevish.
one that robs Ships, Hoys, Lighters, Barges or Boats in the River of Thames. A sort of BADGERS. Which see.
Ears; also Sheep-folds.
Cloth of any Sort.
Plate, or Silver or Gold Moveables and trinkets: Also Money.
the Itch.
a Whore and a Rogue married together.
a Drunkard of that Sect.
a Sharper. To cut a Wheadle; to decoy, by Fawning and Insinuation.
regular drinking over the left Thumb.
a Lane betwixt Holbourn and Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, formerly a noted Nest for Whores, now dispark'd.
Words.
to enter into a Parley, to compound with, or take off by a Bribe; as, Did you Whiddle with the Cull? Did you bribe or compound with the Evidence? Also to impeach, or discover; as, He Whiddles; He Peaches. He Whiddles the whole Scrap; He discovers all he knows. The Cull has whiddled, because we would not tip him a Snack; The Dog has discovered because we did not give him a Share. They Whiddle-Thief, and we must Brush; They cry out Thieves, and we must fly.
a Peacher (or rather Impeacher) of his Gang.
Scotland.
Prayers, Supplications, &c.
Yorkshire.
a sharp, or subtle Fellow.
to steal, to drink cleverly, to snatch and to run away. Whipt through the Lungs; Run through the Body with a Sword. Whipt in at the Glaze; Got in at the Window.
a Maggot.
maggotish.
a low or small Cry.
a low or feigned Cry.
to cry squeekingly.
a Sword.
a very small sprightly Boy.
counterfeit Mariners begging with false Passes, pretending Ship-wrecks, great Losses at Sea, narrow Escapes, &c. telling dismal Stories, having learnt Tar-Terms on purpose: but are meer Cheats, and will not stick to rob a Booth at a Fair, or an House in soem By-road. They often carry their Morts or Wenches, which the pretend to be their Wives, whom they miraculously saved in the Shipwreck, altho' all their Children were drowned, the Ship splitting on a Rock near the Lands-End, with such like Forgeries.
Testicles.
a little inconsiderable, impertinent Fellow.
a great Lye.
shallow, brown Bowls to drink out of.
the Throat. Wet your Whistle: liquor your Throat.
Newgate. As, Five Rum-padders, are rub'd in the Darkmans and of the Whit, and are pik'd into the Deuseaville; Five Highway-men in the Night broke newgate, and are gone into the Country.
two torn Smocks, and what Nature gave.
See Tape.
Silver.
an insolent prescribing, very, Wife.
a Bastard.
a Milk-maid.
sad Drink.
a Casement, also a little Door. As, Tout through the Wicket, and see where a Cully pikes with his Gentry mort, whose Muns are the Rummest I ever touted before; Look through the Casement, and see where the Man walks with a Gentlewoman, whose Face is the fairest, I have ever seen.
See Witcher-Cully.
mourning Cloaths. A Grass-Widow; One that pretends to have been married, but never was, yet has Children.
such as are trained up from Children to Nim golden or silver Buttons off of Coats, to creep in at Cellar and Shop-windows, and to slip in at Doors behind People; also that have been whipt, burnt in the Fist, and often in Prison for Roguery.
Tricks, Intrigues, cunning Stratagems.
cunning, crafty, intriguing.
a little Horse that Travels chearfully; also a coming Girl.
poor, and of no Reputation.
a Penny. To win; To steal. Won; Stollen. The Cull has won a Couple of rum Glimsticks; The Rogue has stole a pair of Silver Candlesticks.
a great Fortune fallen unexpectedly by the Death of a Friend.
without Sense or Reason.
empty Projects.
a Signal or Intimation. He tipt the Wink; He gave the Sign or Signal.
Money, or Reward: Winnings for Wapping; Money given a Woman for lying with her.
a Blow; also a Reflection. He tipt him a rum Wipe; He gave him a swinging Blow. I gave him a Wipe; I spoke something that cut him, or gaul'd him. He wip'd his Nose; He gull'd him.
a Handkerchief. Nim the Wiper; To steal the Handkerchief.
a Handkerchief-stealer. He drew a broad, narrow, cam, or speck'd Wiper; He pick'd Pockets of a broad, or narrow, Ghenting, Cambrick, or colour'd Handkerchief.
a Fetch or Trick to wheedle in Bubbles; also to screw, over-reach, or deal hard with. Wire-drawn; so served or treated.
a Fool.
to know or understand.
Newgate, New Prison, or Bridewell. The same as Whit.
Silver.
a Silver Bowl. The Cull is piked with the Witcher-bubber The Rogue is marched off with the Silver-bowl.
a Silver-smith.
a Silver-hilted Sword. He has bit, or drawn the Witcher-tilter; He has stole the Silver-hilted Sword.
to boil. The Pot wobbles; i.e. The Pot boils; the Meat is enough.
a Prostitute, or common Harlot.
the Indisposition of a Drunkard after a Debauch in Wine or other Liquors: As, He is Womble-ty Cropt; He is Cropsick, &c.
a Pillory. He wore the Wooden-ruff; He stood in the Pillory.
a By-stander that bets, while others game.
In a Peck of Troubles; being in a Doubt, or at a Loss, what Course to take, by Reason of some very critical Turn in one's Affairs; or, among Canters, by being surpriz'd, and in great Danger of being taken, in a Robbery, or any other unlawful Act.
a soft-headed Fellow.
as, Your Wits are a Wool gathering; said of a Person in a serious, or, as 'tis called, in a brown Study; or who knows not what he does.
one that plays with Words: A Punster.
undermined, rooked, cheated, tricked; Wormed out of, inveigled out of, or deluded.