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ery extends to boxing, rac- known to your adversary, Put down: See Down. Queer screens: forged Bank-
ing, and every other spe- or by a knowledge of the notes.
cies of sport, on which bets cards, etc., have the odds Put Flash: See Flash. Queer it: to spoil it.
are laid; sometimes a sham of winning considerably Put Fly: See Fly.
match is made for the pur- on your side; you are then Put up: to suggest to another, Queer-bail: Persons of no re-
pose of inducing strangers said to have a great pull. To the means of committing pute, hired to bail a prisoner
to bet, which is decided in have the power of injuring in any bailable case; these
such a manner that the lat- a person, by the knowledge a depredation, or effect- men are to be had in Lon-
ing any other business, is
ter will inevitably lose. of any thing erroneous in termed, putting him up to it. don for a trifling sum, and
his conduct, which leaves are called Broomsticks.
A-cross signifies generally
any collusion or unfair deal- his character or personal Put up affair: any preconcert- Quid: a guinea. (Later it came
ed plan or scheme to effect
safety at your mercy, is also
ing between several parties. to mean £1.)
termed having a pull upon a robbery, etc., undertaken
Plummy: Right; very good; as it him, that is (to use a vulgar at the suggestion of another Quod: a gaol. To quod a person
should be; expressing your phrase) that you have him person, who possessing a is to send him to gaol. In
approbation of any act, or quod, is in gaol.
event, you will say, That’s
plummy, or It’s all plummy; Quod-cove: the keeper of a
gaol.
meaning it is all right.
Racket: some particular kinds
Poge: A bag, (probably a cor- of fraud and robbery are
ruption of poke.)
so termed, when called by
Pops: Pistols; an obsolete term. their flash titles, and others
Rig; as, the Letter-racket,
Post, or Post the pony: To the Order-racket; the Kid-
stake, or lay down the mon- rig; the Cat and Kitten-rig,
ey, as on laying a bet, or etc., but all these terms de-
concluding a bargain.
pend upon the fancy of the
Poundable: Any event which speaker. In fact, any game
is considered certain or in- may be termed a rig, racket,
evitable, is declared to be Flogging a convict at the triangle, Moreton Bay, c 1836. Artist suit, slum, etc., by prefix-
poundable, as the issue of a unknown. Note two floggers are using whips. Where possible, ing thereto the particular
game, the success of a bet, one flogger was right handed, the other left handed. This made branch of depredation or
etc. for harder strokes of the whip. See “Puzzling Sticks.” fraud in question, many
examples of which occur in
Pound it: To ensure or make a under your thumb. A person knowledge of the premises, this work.
certainty of any thing; thus, speaking of any intricate af- is competent to advise the
a man will say, I’ll pound it to fair, or feat of ingenuity, principal how best to pro- Rag: money.
be so; taken, probably from
the custom of laying, or which he cannot compre- ceed. Rag-gorgy: a rich or monied
man, but generally used in
hend, will say, There is some
rather offering ten pounds pull at the bottom of it, that Putter Up: the projector or conversation when a par-
to a crown at a cock-match, I’m not fly to. planner of a put-up affair, ticular gentleman, or per-
in which case, if no person as a servant in a gentle- son high in office, is hinted
takes this extravagant odds, Pull, or Pull up: to accost; stop; man’s family, who proposes
the battle is at an end. This apprehend; or take into cus- to a gang of housebreakers at; instead of mentioning
his name, they say, the Rag-
is termed pounding a cock. tody; as to pull up a Jack, is the robbery of his master’s gorgy, knowing themselves
to stop a post-chaise on the house, and informs them
Prad: A horse. to be understood by those
highway. where the plate, etc., is de-
Pradback: Horseback. posited, (instances of which they are addressing. See
To pull a man, or have him Cove, and Swell.
Prig: A thief. pulled, is to cause his appre- are frequent in London) is Disclaimer: In this series in-
termed the putter up, and
Prig: To steal; to go out a-prig- hension for some offence; usually shares equally in the tolerable and racist speak
ging, is to go a-thieving. and it is then said, that Mr. booty with the parties exe- may turn up from time to
Pullen is concerned.
Prime: In a general sense, syn- cuting, although the former time. Such words are not
onymous with plummy; any Pulled, Pulled up, or In Pull: may lie dormant, and take necessarily the editor’s view.
thing very good of its kind, Taken in custody; in confine- no part in the actual com- They are presented merely
is called a prime article. Any ment. mission of the fact. as facts which sometimes
thing executed in a stylish or Push: a crowd or concourse of Puzzling Sticks: the triangles to show biased attitudes from
masterly manner, is said to people, either in the streets, which culprits are tied up, another era.
be done in prime twig. See or at any public place of for the purpose of undergo- We should look at our histo-
Fakement, and Gammon amusement, etc., when any ing flagellation. ry as it actually was without
The Twelve. particular scene of crowd- sanitising it to suit our own
Pull: An important advantage ing is alluded to, they say, Queer: bad; counterfeit; false; sensibilities. This will hope-
possessed by one party the push, as the push, at the unwell in health. fully show up racism and
over another; as in gaming, spell doors; the push at the Queer, or Queer-bit: base other evils to be the abomi-
you may by some slight, un- stooping-match, etc. money. nation they really are.

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