W

# The Letter W

## WADDLE

to go like a Duck.

## WAG

## Waggish

arch, gamesome, pleasant.

## WALLOWISH

a malkish, ill Taste.

## To WAP

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.

## WAPPER-Eyed

that has sore or running Eyes.

## WAPPING

the Act of Coition.

## WARM

well lined of flush in the Pocket.

## WARMING-Pan

an old fashion'd large Watch. A Scotch Warming-Pan; a She-bed-fellow.

## WARREN

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.

## WASH

Paint for Faces.

## WASPISH

peevish.

## WATER-Pad

one that robs Ships, Hoys, Lighters, Barges or Boats in the River of Thames. A sort of BADGERS. Which see.

## WATTLES

Ears; also Sheep-folds.

## WEB

Cloth of any Sort.

## WEDGE

Plate, or Silver or Gold Moveables and trinkets: Also Money.

## WELSH Fiddle

## or Scotch-Fiddle

the Itch.

## WESTMINSTER-Wedding

a Whore and a Rogue married together.

## WET-Quaker

a Drunkard of that Sect.

## WHEADLE

a Sharper. To cut a Wheadle; to decoy, by Fawning and Insinuation.

## WHEEL-Band in the Nick

regular drinking over the left Thumb.

## WHETSTONE's Park

a Lane betwixt Holbourn and Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, formerly a noted Nest for Whores, now dispark'd.

## WHIDS

Words.

## To WHIDDLE

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.

## WHIDDLER

a Peacher (or rather Impeacher) of his Gang.

## WHIG-Land

Scotland.

## WHINERS

Prayers, Supplications, &c.

## WHIP-Shire

Yorkshire.

## WHIPSTER

a sharp, or subtle Fellow.

## To WHIP off

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.

## WHIM

a Maggot.

## WHIMSICAL

maggotish.

## WHIMPER

a low or small Cry.

## WHINDLE

a low or feigned Cry.

## To WHINE

to cry squeekingly.

## WHINYARD

a Sword.

## WHIPPER-Snapper

a very small sprightly Boy.

## WHIP-Jacks

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.

## WHIRLEGIGS

Testicles.

## WHISK

a little inconsiderable, impertinent Fellow.

## WHISKER

a great Lye.

## WHISKINS

shallow, brown Bowls to drink out of.

## WHISTLE

the Throat. Wet your Whistle: liquor your Throat.

## WHIT

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.

## WHITE-Chappel-Portion

two torn Smocks, and what Nature gave.

## WHITE-Tape

See Tape.

## WHITE Wool

Silver.

## WHITHER-D'ye-go

an insolent prescribing, very, Wife.

## WHORE's Kitling

## or Whore's Son

a Bastard.

## WHOW-Ball

a Milk-maid.

## WIBBLE

sad Drink.

## WICKET

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.

## WICHER-Cully

See Witcher-Cully.

## WIDOWS-Weeds

mourning Cloaths. A Grass-Widow; One that pretends to have been married, but never was, yet has Children.

## WILD Rogues

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.

## WILES

Tricks, Intrigues, cunning Stratagems.

## WILY

cunning, crafty, intriguing.

## WILLING-Tit

a little Horse that Travels chearfully; also a coming Girl.

## WILLOW

poor, and of no Reputation.

## WIN

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.

## WIND-Fall

a great Fortune fallen unexpectedly by the Death of a Friend.

## WINDY-Fellow

without Sense or Reason.

## WIND-Mills in the Head

empty Projects.

## WINK

a Signal or Intimation. He tipt the Wink; He gave the Sign or Signal.

## WINNINGS

Money, or Reward: Winnings for Wapping; Money given a Woman for lying with her.

## WIPE

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.

## WIPER

a Handkerchief. Nim the Wiper; To steal the Handkerchief.

## WIPER-Drawer

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.

## WIRE-Draw

a Fetch or Trick to wheedle in Bubbles; also to screw, over-reach, or deal hard with. Wire-drawn; so served or treated.

## WISE Man of Gotham

a Fool.

## To WIT

to know or understand.

## The WIT

Newgate, New Prison, or Bridewell. The same as Whit.

## WITCHER

Silver.

## WITCHER-Bubber

a Silver Bowl. The Cull is piked with the Witcher-bubber The Rogue is marched off with the Silver-bowl.

## WITCHER-Cully

a Silver-smith.

## WITCHER-Tilter

a Silver-hilted Sword. He has bit, or drawn the Witcher-tilter; He has stole the Silver-hilted Sword.

## To WOBBLE

to boil. The Pot wobbles; i.e. The Pot boils; the Meat is enough.

## WOMAN of the Town

a Prostitute, or common Harlot.

## WOMBLE-Ty-Cropt

the Indisposition of a Drunkard after a Debauch in Wine or other Liquors: As, He is Womble-ty Cropt; He is Cropsick, &c.

## WOODEN-Ruff

a Pillory. He wore the Wooden-ruff; He stood in the Pillory.

## WOOD-Pecker

a By-stander that bets, while others game.

## In a WOOD

## or, In a Maze

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.

## WOOLLY-Crown

a soft-headed Fellow.

## WOOL-Gathering

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.

## WORD-Pecker

one that plays with Words: A Punster.

## WORM'D

undermined, rooked, cheated, tricked; Wormed out of, inveigled out of, or deluded.