Bitch booby. A country wench. Military term.
Bite. A cheat; also a woman’s privities.
The cull wapt
the mort’s bite; the fellow enjoyed
the wench heartily.
Cant.
To bite. To over-reach, or impose;
also to steal.—Cant.
—Biting was once esteemed a
kind of wit, similar to the
humbug. An instance of it is given
in the Spectator: A
man under sentence of death having sold
his body to a surgeon
rather below the market price, on receiving
the money, cried, A
bite! I am to be hanged in chains.—To
bite
the roger; to steal a portmanteau.
To bite the wiper, to
steal a handkerchief. To bite on
the bridle; to be pinched
or reduced to difficulties. Hark
ye, friend, whether do
they bite in the collar or the cod-piece?
Water wit to
anglers.
Biter. A wench whose **** is ready to bite
her a-se; a
lascivious, rampant wench.
Blab. A tell-tale, or one incapable of keeping a secret
Black and white. In writing.
I have it in black and
white; I have written evidence.
Black art. The art of picking a lock. Cant.
Black A-se. A copper or kettle.
The pot calls the kettle
black a-se. Cant.
Black book. He is down in the black
book, i.e. has a
stain in his character. A black book
is keep in most regiments,
wherein the names of all persons sentenced
to punishment
are recorded.
Black box. A lawyer. Cant.
Black eye. We gave the bottle a black
eye, i.e. drank it
almost up. He cannot say black is
the white of my eye;
he cannot point out a blot in my character.
Black fly. The greatest drawback on
the farmer is the
black fly, i.e. the parson who takes
tithe of the harvest.
Black guard. A shabby, mean fellow;
a term said to be
derived from a number of dirty, tattered
roguish boys, who
attended at the Horse Guards, and Parade
in St. James’s
Park, to black the boots and shoes of
the soldiers, or to do
any other dirty offices. These, from
their constant attendance
about the time of guard mounting, were
nick-named
the black-guards.
Black jack. A nick name given to the
Recorder by the
Thieves.
Black jack. A jug to drink out of, made of jacked leather.
Black joke. A popular tune to a song,
having for the
burden, “Her black joke and belly
so white:” figuratively
the black joke signifies the monosyllable.
See monosyllable.
Black Indies. Newcastle upon Tyne,
whose rich coal
mines prove an Indies to the proprietors.
BLACKLEGS. A gambler or sharper on the turf or
in the cockpit:
so called, perhaps, from their appearing
generally in
boots; or else from game-cocks whose legs
are always black.