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