A
Adam's Ale: Water
Admiral of the narrow seas: A drunk who throws up in someone's lap.
B
Bacon faced: Chubby chops.
Babes in the wood: Criminals in the stocks or pillory
Beau Nasty: Someone well-dressed but dirty.
Beast with two backs: A couple having casual sexual relations
Bushell bubby: A full-breasted woman.
C
Camp candlestick: A bottle.
Captain queernobs: Shabby ill-dressed man
Covent Garden nun: A prostitute. They gathered there.
D
Dangler: A man who randomly follows women.
Dicky: A woman's petticoat.
Diddle: Gin.
Diggers: Spurs. (On a boot)
Double jugg: A man's backside.
LAND PIRATES: Highwaymen.
E
Essex lion: A calf or young cow.
Eternity box: A coffin.
Eve's custom house: A woman's private parts.
F
Fagger: A small boy put in through a window to rob a house.
Flash the hash: To vomit.
Flash Ken: A thieves' safe house
Fussock: A lazy fat woman.
G
Giblet joining: Living in sin.
Gilflurt: A vain woman. Think Posh.
Gingamobs: Testicles.
Goat's jig: A couple having enthusiastic sex.
Gutfoundered: Starving hungry.
H
Hat: A tart's private parts, i.e. they are frequently felt!
Hobbledygee: A pace between a walk and run, a trot.
Horse godmother: A large, masculine woman.
Hoddy doddy: A short clumsy person.
I
Irish apricots: Potatoes.
Itchland: Scotland.
LILY WHITE: A chimney sweep
J
Jade: An insult directed at women. Any link to the former
Jerrycummumble: To shake or tumble about.
Jerry sneak: Henpecked hubby.
K
Keep it up: Meant exactly the same in 1785 as it does today.
Kencracker: A burglar.
Kickerapoo: Dead.
L
Left-handed wife: Mistress.
Lank sleeve: A one armed man.
Lazy man's load: Carrying too much in one go to save going back again.
M
Marriage music: Screaming babies.
Milk the pigeon: Try and do the impossible.
Molly: An effeminate man.
Manoevering the apostles: Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
N
Nicky ninny:
Simpleton.
Nimgimmer: VD doctor.
Nitsqueeger: Hairdresser.
Noozed: Married...or hanged!
Nose gent: A nun.
O
Oyster: A mouthful of phlegm spat out on the pavement.
P
Pettyfogger: A dodgy lawyer.
Pratts: Buttocks.
Pudding-headed fellow: A total idiot.
Q
Queen Street: This is where a hen-pecked man is said to live
Queer rooster: A spy pretending to be asleep, not a gay cockerel.
R
Roast: To arrest.
Running smobble: Snatch-and-grab-style raid on a shop counter.
S
Shoulder clapper: A bailiff.
Sluice your gob: To take a big swig of a drink.
Spanish faggot: The sun.
Sugar stick: A penis.
SHERIFF'S PICTURE FRAME: The gallows.
T
Tatterdemallion: A man with his clothes in tatters.
Tickle pitcher: A thirsty boozer.
Timber toe: Someone with a wooden leg.
Tit: Don't worry, Jordan, this is a horse.
Toss pot: A drunkard.
U
Understrapper: An office junior or inferior.
Unlicked cub: Rude, uncouth lad.
V
Vampers: Stockings.
Van neck: A woman with large boobs.
Vowel: To write out an IOU when you have just lost at gambling.
W
Wagtail: A lewd woman.
Whapper: Large man or woman
Y
Yellow: To be jealous.
Yoked: Married.
Yowl: To cry aloud or howl.
Z
Zad: Crooked, like the letter Z.
(Found on http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/a-to-z-guide-to-street-slang-from-the-1700s-1601888)
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