rious,but not deserving of being in the three first classes) or among the of Toxo, the many. See PLUCK, APOSTLES,&c. οι πολλοι, WRAP RASCAL. A red cloak, called also a roquelaire. WRAPT UP IN WARM FLANNEL. Drunk with spirituous liquors. He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother's smock; saying of any one remarkable for his success with the ladies. To be wrapt up in any one: to have a good opinion of him, or to be under his influence. WRINKLE. A wrinkle-bellied whore; one who has had a number of bastards: child-bearing leaves wrinkles in a woman's belly. To take the wrinkles out of any one's belly; to fill it out by a hearty meal. You have one wrinkle more in your a-se; i. e. you have one piece of knowledge more than you had, every fresh piece of knowledge being supposed by the vulgar naturalists to add a wrinkle to that part. WRY MOUTH AND A PISSEN PAIR OF BREECHES. Hanging. WRY NECK DAY. Hanging day. XANTIPPE. The name of Socrates's wife: now used to signify a shrew or scolding wife. YEA YAFFLING. Eating. Cant. To YAM. To eat or stuff heartily. YANKEY, OF YANKEY DOODLE. A booby, or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. A general appellation for an American. YARMOUTH CAPON. A red herring: Yarmouth is a famous place for curing herrings. YARMOUTH COACH. A kind of low two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse, not much unlike an Irish car. YARMOUTH PYE. A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to the king. YARUM. Milk. Cant, YEA AND NAY MAN. A quaker, a simple fellow, one who can only answer yes, or no. YEL YELLOW. To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out on coming home, and finding me with his wife, he began to look confounded blue, and was, I thought, a little yellow. YELLOW BELLY. A native of the Fens of Licolnshire; an allusion to the eels caught there. YELLOW BOYs. Guineas. To YELP. To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions. YEST. A contraction of yesterday. also one. YOKED. Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour performed at one spell by husbandmen, the day's work being divided in summer into three yokes. Kentish term. YORKSHIRE TYKE. A Yorkshire clown. To come Yorkshire over any one; to cheat him. YOUNG ONE. A familiar expression of contempt for ano- ther's ignorance, as "ah! I see you're a young one." How d'ye do, young one 2 To YowL. To cry aloud, or howl. 22 ZUC ZAD. Crooked like the letter Z. He is a mere zad, or perhaps zed; a description of a very crooked or deformed person. ZANY. The jester, jack pudding, or merry andrew, to a mountebank. ZEDLAND. Great part of the west country, where the letter Z is substituted for S; as zee for see, zun for sun, &c. &c. This prevails through the counties of Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire. ZNEES. Frost or frozen. Zneesy weather; frosty weather. ZNUZ. The same as znees. Zoc, or Soc. A blow. I gid him a zoc; I gave him a blow. West country. ZOUCH, OF SLOUCH. A slovenly ungenteel man, one who has a stoop in his gait. A slouched hat; a hat with its brims let down, or uncocked. ZOUNDS. An exclamation, an abbreviation of God's wounds. ZUCKE. A withered stump of a tree. FINIS, W. N. Jones, Pruter, Green Arbour Court, Old Barley, London. |