Blind Cupid. The backside.
BLINDMAN’S holiday. Night, darkness.
Block houses. Prisons, houses of correction, &c.
Blocked at both ends. Finished.
The game is blocked
at both ends; the game is ended.
Blood. A riotous disorderly fellow.
Blood for blood. A term used by
tradesmen for bartering
the different commodities in which they
deal. Thus a
hatter furnishing a hosier with a hat,
and taking payment
in stockings, is said to deal blood for
blood.
Blood money. The reward given by the
legislature on the
conviction of highwaymen, burglars, &c.
Bloody back. A jeering appellation
for a soldier, alluding
to his scarlet coat.
Bloody. A favourite word used by the thieves
in swearing,
as bloody eyes, bloody rascal.
Bloss or blowen. The pretended wife
of a bully, or
shoplifter. Cant.
To blot the Skrip and Jar
it. To stand engaged or
bound for any one. Cant.
Blow. He has bit the blow, i.e. he
has stolen the goods.
Cant.
BLOWEN. A mistress or whore of a gentleman of
the
scamp. The blowen kidded the swell
into a snoozing
ken, and shook him of his dummee and thimble;
the
girl inveigled the gentleman into a brothel
and robbed him
of his pocket book and watch.
Blower. A pipe. How the swell funks
his blower and
lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman
makes
with his pipe, and drinks brandy.
To blow the GROUNSILS. To lie
with a woman on the
floor. Cant.
To blow the gab. To confess,
or impeach a confederate.
Cant.
Blow-up. A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
A BLOWSE, or BLOWSABELLA. A woman whose hair
is
dishevelled, and hanging about her face;
a slattern.
Blubber. The mouth.—I have stopped
the cull’s blubber;
I have stopped the fellow’s mouth,
meant either by gagging
or murdering him.
To blubber. To cry.
To sport blubber. Said of a large
coarse woman, who
exposes her bosom.
Blubber cheeks. Large flaccid cheeks,
hanging like
the fat or blubber of a whale.
Blue, To look blue; to be confounded, terrified,
or disappointed.
Blue as a razor; perhaps, blue as azure.
Blue boar. A venereal bubo.
Blue devils. Low spirits.
Blue flag. He has hoisted the blue
flag; he has commenced
publican, or taken a public house, an
allusion to
the blue aprons worn by publicans.
See Admiral of
the blue.