A Victorian Fable(with Glossary)
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The Village, take a fright.In the rookeries.
Here the sloops of war and the dollymops flash it to spie a dowry of parny; there the boers cooled their longs and shorts in the hazard drums.
In every s and ginnel, bone-grubbers, rufflers, shivering-jemmies, anglers, clapperdogeons, peterers, sneeze-lurkers and Whip Jacks with their morts, out of the picaroon, fox and flimp and ogle.
A Hopping Giles gets a bloody Jemmy on the cross of a cut-throat; the snotters crib belchers, birds eye wipes, blue billies and Randals men.
In a boozing ken in the Holy Land, a dunk-horned cutter -- a cock-eyed clack box in flashy benjamin and blood red fancy -- shed a tear by the I desire.
But whe the water of life down the on sewer, he bullyragged so antiscripturally that the barney hipped and he rust.
"This shove in the mouth makes me shoot the cat! Me dumpli is fair all-overish!"
He certainly had his hump up. He absquatulated. The bung cried: "Square the omee for the cream of the valley!" But the splodger had mizzled with his half-a-grunter.
At his ruggy carser, his poll -- a killing, ginger-hackled skull-thatcher -- kept on the nose for her jomer.
She had faked the rubber for her mendozy and got him up an out and out glorious sihere was an alderman in s, a Ben Flake, a neddy of Sharps Alley blood worms, with Irish apricots, Joe Savad storrac.
&quod," she said, "that he be her beargeared, bleary, blued, primed, lumpy, top-heavy, moony, scammered, on the ran-tan, ploughed, muddled, obfuscated, swipy, kisky, sewed up nor all mops and brooms! Or that he hasnt lapped the gutter, t see a hole in a ladder or been to Bungay Fair and lose both his legs!"
But what a flare-up in the soush! He dropped into her on the spot. Hed got a capital twis<s>９9ｌiｂ?</s>t for a batty fang and he showed her it was dragging time; she was sick as a horse. He was a catchy fancy-bloke.
"You mouldy old bed-fagot, you rotten old gooseberry pudden, you ugly old Gill, you flea-ridden old moll!" he blasted. "Ill give you jessie, you Mullingar heifer!"
A barnacled cove (a spoffy blackberry swagger with a e fringe) from the top floor back sang out: "K, you head beetler! Stow faking!" But got a stunning fag owopenny that sent him half-way to Albertopolis.
She had bought the rabbit with that slubberdegullion. He peppered her and clumped her ahered her till she went flop down on the Rory OMore and theepped it for the frog and toad, to go to Joe Blake the Bartlemy.
He hopped the twig on her.
"He ought to go to the vertical care-grinder!" sh<var>..</var>e chived. "He ought to be marinated! Ill never poll up with a liver-faced, chatty, beef-headed, cupboard-headed, culver-headed, fiddle-faced, glumpish, squabby dab tros like him again!
"Im fairly in half-m -- it wont fadge, it just wont fadge. He gives me the Jerry go Nimbles. Ill stun him -- Ill streak. Ill pick up my sticks and cut."
So she bolted and took a speel on the drum to the top of Rome.
On Shitten Saturday, the worms pihat scaly shaver of hers in a Tom and Jerry for starring the glaze; he went over the stile at Spike Park and got topped.
Glossary
Village, the London
take a fright night (rhyming slang)
rookeries a slow neighbourhood inhabited by dirty
Irish and thieves
sloop of war, a whore (rhyming slang)
dollymop, a a tawdrily dressed maid-servant, a
streetwalker
flash it, to show it, to display ones wares
dowry of parny, a a lot of rain
boer, a one who induces ao gamble
cool, to to look, to look over (back slang)
longs and shorts cards made for cheating
hazard drum, a gambling dens, where the ho escape
penniless, if at all
s, a low alley way
ginnel, a still lower alley way
bone-grubber, a a person who hunts dust-holes, gutters,
and all likely spots for refuse bones, which
he sells at the ragshops, or to the bone-
merts
ruffler, a beggar pretending to be an old, maimed
soldier
shivering-jemmy, a a begger who exposes h?imself, half-naked,
on a cold day to obtain alms. This occupation
is unpleasant but exceedingly lucrative
angler, an a thief who goes about with a rod, having a
hook at the end, which he is into open
windows at night on the ce of a catch
clapperdogeon, a a beggar who uses childreher of his own or
borrowed, in order to stir the sympathy of the
charitable
shed a tear, to to take a dram lass of spirits; jocular
phrase used, with a sort of grim earness, by
old topers. The in may have been that ardent
spirits, take by younger persons, usually bring
water to their eyes
I desire fire (rhyming slang)
water of life gin (from aqua vitae?)
on sewer the throat
bullyrag, to to abuse or scold violently; to swi of money
by intimidation and sheer abuse
antiscriptural adj - applied to oaths when they are posed of
foul language
barney the pany
hip, to to be offended
nab the rust, to to take offence
shove in the mouth, a glass of spirits
shoot the cat, to vomit
dumpli belly
all-overish adj. -- sick, unwell, out of order
have ones hump up, to to be in a fearful rage
absquatulate, to depart from aablishment without paying ones
score
bung landlord
square, to to settle a bill
omee man-in-charge; governor; landlord (when used by
a landlord about himself)
cream of the valley gin
splodger lout
mizzle, to to depart with great speed; to vanish
half-a-grunter sixpence
ruggy adj. -- frowsty, un
carser house, home
poll young lady with whom a gentleman is having an
irregular relationship
killing adjective of high endation; outstanding; unique
ginger-hackled adj. -- having auburn or flaxen hair
skull-thatcher a straw-bo maker
on the no<mark></mark>se, to be on the look-out
jomer sweetheart
fake the rubber, to stand treat in aravagant manner
mendozy dear, darling; a term of endearment probably from
the valiant fighter, Mendoza
out and out adj. -- first-rate; splendid
glorious sinner dinner (rhyming slang)
alderman in s, an a turkey hung with sausages
Ben Flake, a a steak (rhyming slang)
neddy, a a large quantity of odity, as in "a neddy of fruit",
"a neddy of fish"
Sharps Alley blood worms black puddings. Sharps Alley was very retly a
noted slaughtering plaear Smithfield
Irish apricots potatoes
Joe Savage cabbage (rhyming slang)
storrac carrots (back slang)
beargeared
bleary
blued
primed
lumpy
top-heavy
moony
scammered
on the ran-tan - adjectives and phrases denoting various stages of
ploughed drunkenness
muddled
obfuscated
swipy
kisky
sewed up
all mops and brooms
lap the gutter, to
not be able to see a
hole in the ladder, to /
go to a Bungay Fair and to have reached the ultimate degree of intoxication. In the
lose both legs, to A Egyptian language, the determinative character of the
hieroglyphic verb "to be drunk" has the signifit form of the
leg of a man being amputated
flare-up, a row
soush house (back slang)
drop into somebody, to give them an unprovoked beating
twist appetite, e.g. "Wills got a capital twist for a Ben Flake" or, in
the case of the hero of our ae, a capital twist for. . .
batty fang, a a souing, a drubbing
dragging time the evening of a try fair day, when the young fellows begin
pulling the wenches about
sick as a horse <cite>?99liｂ?</cite>popular simile denotireme ennui
catchy ined to take undue advantage
fancy-bloke gentleman friend
bed-fagot bed panion
gooseberry pudden woman (rhyming slang)
Gill terms of disapprobation applied to females
Moll
blast, to to curse
give jessie, to to it assault and battery upon someone
Mullingar heifer said of a lady whose ankles are "beefy", or thick. A term of Irish
in. It is said that a traveller passing through Mullingar was so
struck with this pecularity in the local women that he determio
accost the first he met . "May I ask," said he, "if you wear hay
in your shoes?" "Faith, an what if I do?" said the girl. "Because,"
says the traveller, "that ats for the calves of ys ing
down to feed on it."
barnacled adj. -- applied to a wearer of spectacles (corruption of Latin
binnoculi?). Derived by some from the barnacle (Lepas Anatifera),
a kind of ical shell adhering to ships bottoms. Hence a marine
term fgles, and for which they are used by sailors in a case of
ophthalmic dera
cove or covey; a man or boy of any age
spoffy adj. -- officious, intrusive
blackberry swagger a person who hawks tapes, bootlaces, etc.
e fringe, a the collar of beard worn uhe ; so called from its indig
the position of the rope when Jack Ketch operates
sing out, to exclaim in a loud voice
k, to to stop, t to a halt
stow faking, to to cease evil activity
stunning adj. -- astounding
fag blow
twopenny head
Albertopolis a facetious appelation given by Villagers to the Kensington Gore
district
buy the rabbit, to make a bad bargain; obtain a deal of trouble and invenience
by some a
slubberdegullion worthless wretch
pepper, to
clump, to - degrees of beating
leather, to /
flop down, to go to collapse totally
Rory OMore floor (rhyming slang)
step it, to absd
frog and toad main road (rhyming slang)
Joe Blake the to visit a low woman in a house of ill-repute
Bartlemy, to go to
hop the twig, to to run away; to leave someone in the lurch
vertical care-grinder treadmill
chive, to to shout
mario be transported; from the salt pig herrings undergo in wall
poll up, to to live with a member of the opposite sex in a state of
unmarried impropriety
liver-faced adj. -- mean, cowardly
chatty adj. -- ied with lice
beef-headed adj.-- stupid
cupboard-headed an expression designating one whose head is both wooden
and hollow
culver-headed adj. -- weak and stupid
fiddle-faced adj. -- applied to those with wizened tenances
glumpish adj. -- of a stubborn, sulky temper (our hero certainly fits the
bill here!)
squabby adj. -- fat, short and thick
dab tros bad sort (back slang)
in half-m, to be to have sustained a black eye, or "mouse", in the course of a
tussle
fadge, it wont expression meaning "it just wont do", or "it just wont work"
Jerry go Nimbles diarrhoea
stun, to to astonish
streak, to to absd
pick up oicks and to collees possessions and leave aablishment
cut, to without notice; to do a "moonlight flit"
bolt, to to run away, escape
a speel on the to take a trip to the try
drum, to take
top of Rome home (rhyming slang)
Shitten Saturday corruption of "Shut-in Saturday"; the day between Good
Friday aer Sunday
worm poli
pin, to to arrest, to apprehend
scaly adj. -- unpleasant, disgusting
shaver young person
Tom and Jerry, a a drinking shop
star the glaze, to to break the window or show-glass of a jeweller or other
tradesman, and take any valuable articles and run away.
Sometimes the glass is cut with a diamond, and a strip of
leather fasteo the piece of glass cut out to keep it from
falling in and making a noise. Another plan is to cut the sash
go over the stile, to to go for trial (rhyming slang)
Spike Park the Queens Bench prison
topped, to be to be executed. Which the brute richly deserved
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