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WYN

WORLD. All the world and his wife; every body, a great

company.

WORM. To worm out; to obtain the knowledge of a fecret
by craft, alfo to undermine or fupplant. He is gone to
the diet of worms; he is dead and buried, or gone to Rot-
his-bone.

WRAP RASCAL. A red cloak, called alfo a roquelaire.
WRAPT UP IN WARM FLANNEL. Drunk with fpirituous
liquors. He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother's
fmock; faying of any one remarkable for his fuccefs 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-fe; i. e. you have one piece of
knowledge more than you had, every freth piece of know-
ledge being fuppofed by the vulgar naturalifts to add a
wrinkle to that part.

WRY MOUTH AND A PISSEN PAIR OF BREECHES. Hang-
ing.

WRY NECK DAY. Hanging day.

WYN. See WIN.

XANTIPPE

X.

XAN

ANTIPPE. The name of Socrates's wife: now used to fignify a fhrew or scolding wife.

Y.

Y.

YO W

YAFFLING. Eating. Cant.

To YAM. To eat or ftuff heartily.

YANKEY, OF YANKEY DOODLE, A booby or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. 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 fimple fellow, one who can only answer yes or no.

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 Lincolnshire: an allusion to the eels caught there.

YELLOW BOYs. Guineas.

YELLOW CAT. The golden lion, a noted brothel in the Strand, fo named by the ladies who frequented it.

TO YELP. To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occafions. YEST. A contraction of yesterday.

YOKED. Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour per

formed at one spell by husbandmen, the day's work being divided in fummer into three yokes. Kentish term.

YORKSHIRE TYKE. A Yorkshire clown. To come Yorkshire over any one; to cheat him.

To YowL. To cry aloud, or howl.

Z.

ZAD.

Z.

Z UC

AD. Crooked like the letter Z. He is a mere zad,

or perhaps zed; a description of a very crooked or deformed perfon.

ZANY. The jefter, Jack Pudden, or merry Andrew, to a mountebank.

ZEDLAND. Great part of the weft country, where the letter Z. is fubftituted for S.; as zee for fee, zun for fun, &c. &c. This prevails through the counties of Devonshire, Dorfetfhire, and Somersetshire.

ZNEES. Freft or frozen. Zneefy weather; frosty weather. ZNUZ. The fame as znees.

Zoc, or Soc. A blow. I gid him a zoc; I gave him a blow. Weft country.

ZOUCH, or SLOUCH. A flovenly ungenteel man, one who has a stoop in his gait. A flouched hat; a hat with its brims let down, or uncocked.

ZOUNDS. An exclamation,

wounds.

an abbreviation of God's

Zueke. A withered ftump of a tree.

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