JOB'S TURKEY, as poor as JOB's TURKEY," as thin and as badly fed as that ill-conditioned bird. JOE, a too marvellous tale, a lie, or a stale joke. Abbreviated from “Joe Miller." The full name is occasionally used, as in the phrase "I don't see the JOE MILLER of it," i.e., I don't perceive the wit you intend. JOEY, a fourpenny piece. The term is derived (like BOBBY from Sir Robert Peel) from Joseph Hume, the late respected M.P. The explanation is thus given in Hawkins's History of the Silver Coinage of England:

"These pieces are said to have owed their existence to the pressing instance of Mr Hume, from whence they, for some time, bore the nickname of JOEYS. As they were very convenient to pay short cab fares, the Hon. M.P. was extremely unpopular with the drivers, who frequently received only a groat where otherwise they would have received a sixpence without any demand for change.'

The term originated with the London cabmen, who have invented many others.

JOG-TROT, a slow but regular trot, or pace.

JOGUL, to play up, at cards or other game. Spanish, JUGAR.

JOHNNY, half-a-glass of whisky.—Irish.

JOHN-THOMAS, a generic for "flunkeys,"- -more especially footmen with large calves and fine bushy whiskers.

JOHNNY-DARBIES, a nickname for policemen, an evident corruption of the French GENSDARMES. Also, a term applied to handcuffs.-See

DARBIES.

JOHN ORDERLY, the signal to shorten the performance at a show. Whenever the master, who remains on the platform outside to take the money and regulate the performance, desires to refill the booth, he pokes his head inside and shouts, "Is JOHN ORDERLY there?" The actors instantly cut the piece short, the curtain falls, and the spectators are bundled out at the back, to make room for the fresh audience. According to tradition, John Orderly was a noted showman, who taught this move to the no less noted Richardson.

JOLLY, a word of praise, or favourable notice; "chuck Harry a JOLLYBill," ie., go and praise up his goods, or buy of him, and speak well of the article, that the crowd standing around his stall may think it a good opportunity to lay out their money. This is also called JOLLYING. "Chuck a JOLLY," lit. translated, is "throw a shout" or "good word." JOLLY, a Royal Marine.-See HORSE MARINE.

JOMER, a sweetheart, or favourite girl.-See BLOWER.

JOSKIN, a countryman.

JOW, be off, be gone immediately. If the word JEHANUM be added, it forms a peremptory order to go to the place unmentionable to ears polite. Our word "Jericho," to go to, is probably derived from JEHA

-Anglo-Indian.

NUM.

JUDAS, a deceitful person; JUDAS-HAIRED, red-haired, deceitful.

"JOE BLAKE THE BARTLEMY," to visit a low woman.

JUNIPER, gin.-Household Words, No. 183.

JUNK, salt beef.-See OLD HORSE. JUWAUB, literally, in Hindostanee, an answer; but in Anglo-Indian Slang signifying a refusal. If an officer asks for leave and is refused, he is said to be JUWAUBED; if a gentleman unsuccessfully proposes for the hand of a lady, he is said to have got the JUWAUB.- -Anglo-Indian. KARIBAT, food, literally rice and curry; the staple dish of both natives and Europeans in India.-Anglo-Indian.

KEEL-HAULING, a good thrashing or mauling, rough treatment,—from the old nautical custom of punishing offenders by throwing them overboard with a rope attached, and hauling them up from under the ship's keel.

"KEEP IT UP," to prolong a debauch, or the occasion of a rejoicing—a metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle-cock.-Grose.

KELTER, coin, money,

KEN, a house.-Ancient Cant. KHAN, Gipsy and Oriental.

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**All Slang and Cant words which end in KEN, such as SPIELKEN, SPINIKEN, or BOOZINGKEN, refer to houses, and are mainly of Gipsy origin.

KENNEDY, a poker, also to strike or kill with a poker. A St Giles's term, so given from a man of that name being killed by a poker. Frequently shortened to NEDDY.

KENT RAG, or CLOUT, a cotton handkerchief.

KERTEVER CARTZO, the disease known as the morbo gallico. From the Lingua Franca, CATTIVO, bad, and cazzo.

KETCH, or JACK KETCH, the popular name for a public hangman; derived from a person of that name who officiated in the reign of Charles II. -See Macaulay's History of England, p. 626.

KIBOSH, nonsense, stuff, humbug; "it's all KIBOSH," i.e., palaver or nonsense; to put on the KIBOSH," to run down, slander, degrade, &c. -See BOSH. KIBOSH also means one shilling and sixpence.

KICK, a moment; "I'll be there in a KICK," i.e., in a minute.
KICK, a sixpence; "two and a KICK," two shillings and sixpence.
KICK, a pocket; Gaelic, CUACH, a bowl, a nest; Scotch, GUAIGH.
KICKERABOO, dead. A West Indian negro's phrase.-See KICK THE
BUCKET, of which phrase it is a corruption.

KICK THE BUCKET, to die.-Norfolk. According to Forby, a metaphor
taken from the descent of a well or mine, which is of course absurd.
The Rev. E. S. Taylor supplies me with the following note from his
MS. additions to the work of the East-Anglian lexicographer :-

JUG, a prison, or jail.

JUMP, to seize, or rob; "to JUMP a man," to pounce upon him, and either rob or maltreat him; "to JUMP a house," to rob it.-See Go.

KEN-CRACKER, a housebreaker.

"The allusion is to the way in which a slaughtered pig is hung up,-viz., by passing the ends of a bent piece of wood behind the tendons of the hind legs, and so suspending it to a hook in a beam above. This piece of wood is locally termed a BUCKET, and so by a coarse metaphor the phrase came to signify to die. Compare the Norfolk phrase, 'as wrong as a BUCKET. Another correspondent says the real signification of this phrase is to commit suicide by hanging, from a method planned and carried out by an ostler at an inn on the Great North Road. Standing on a bucket, he tied himself up to a beam in the stable; he then KICKED THE BUCKET away from under his feet, and in a few seconds was dead. The natives of the West Indies have converted the expression into KICKERABOO.

KICK UP, a noise or disturbance.

KICK UP, "to KICK UP a row," to create a tumult.

KICKSHAWS, trifles; made, or French dishes-not English, or substantial. Corruption of the French, QUELQUES CHOSES.

KICKSIES, trousers.

KICKSY, troublesome, disagreeable. German, KECK, bold.

KID, an infant, or child.

KID, to joke, to quiz, to hoax anybody.

KID-ON, to entice or incite a person to the perpetration of an act.

KIDDIER, a pork-butcher.

KIDDILY, fashionably or showily; "KIDDILY togg'd," showily dressed.

KIDDLEY WINK, a small shop where they retail the commodities of a village store. Also, a woman of unsteady habits.

KIDDY, a man or boy. Formerly a low thief.

KIDDYISH, frolicsome, jovial.

"Think on the KIDDYISH spree we had on such a day."

KIDNA, how much ?-Anglo-Indian.

-Randall's Diary, 1820.

KIDNAPPER, one who steals children or adults. From KID, a child, and NAB, (corrupted to NAP,) to steal, or seize.

KIDNEY, "of that KIDNEY," of such a stamp: "strange KIDNEY," odd humour; "two of a KIDNEY," two persons of a sort, or as like as two peas, i.e., resembling each other like two kidneys in a bunch.-Old. 'Attempt to put their hair out of KIDNEY."-Terræ Filius, 1763.

KIDDEN, or KIDKEN, a low lodging-house for boys.

KID-RIG, cheating children in the streets sent on errands, or intrusted with packages. Nearly obsolete.

KIDMENT, a pocket-handkerchief fastened to the pocket, and partially hung out, to entrap thieves; hence any inducement to dishonesty or crime. Also, a fictitious story or written statement got up to deceive the unwary. A begging letter; long rigmarole of any kind.

KIDSMAN, one who trains boys to thieve and pick pockets successfully.

KILKENNY CAT, a popular simile for a voracious or desperate animal or person, from the story of the two cats in that county, who are said to have fought and bitten each other until a small portion of the tail of one of them alone remained.

KILLING, bewitching, fascinating. 66 'dressing to DEATH.”

The term is akin to the phrase

KIMBO, or A-KIMBO, holding the arms in a bent position from the body, and resting the hands upon the hips, in a bullying attitude. Said to

be from A SCHEMBO, Italian; but more probably from KIMBAW, the old Cant for beating, or bullying.-See Grose. Celtic, CAM, crooked. KINCHIN, a child.-Old Cant. From the German diminutive, KINDCHEN, a baby

KINCOB, uniform, fine clothes, rich embroidered dresses.-Anglo-Indian. KINGSMAN, the favourite coloured neckerchief of the costermongers.

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The women wear them thrown over their shoulders. With both
sexes they are more valued than any other article of clothing. A
coster's caste, or position, is at stake, he imagines, if his KINGSMAN is
not of the most approved pattern. When he fights, his KINGSMAN is
tied either around his waist as a belt, or as a garter around his leg.
This very singular partiality for a peculiar-coloured neckcloth was
doubtless derived from the Gipsies, and probably refers to an
Oriental taste or custom long forgotten by these vagabonds.
strange similarity of taste for certain colours exists amongst the Hin-
doos, Gipsies, and London costermongers. Red and yellow (or orange)
are the great favourites, and in these hues the Hindoo selects his tur-
ban and his robe; the Gipsy his breeches, and his wife her shawl or
gown; and the costermonger, his plush waistcoat and favourite KINGS-
MAN. Among either class, when a fight takes place, the greatest re-
gard is paid to the favourite coloured article of dress. The Hindoo
lays aside his turban, the Gipsy folds up his scarlet breeches or coat,
whilst the pugilistic costermonger of Covent Garden or Billingsgate,
as we have just seen, removes his favourite neckerchief to a part of his

body, by the rules of the ".
"ring," comparatively out of danger.
Amongst the various patterns of kerchiefs worn by the wandering
tribes of London, red and yellow are the oldest and most in fashion.
Blue, intermixed with spots, is a late importation, probably from the
Navy, through sporting characters.

KING'S PICTURES, (now, of course, QUEEN'S PICTURES,) money.
KISKY, drunk, fuddled.

KISSER, the mouth.-Pugilistic term.

KISS-CURL, a small curl twisted on the temple.-See BOWCATCHER. KISS-ME-QUICK, the name given to the very small bonnets worn by females since 1850.

KINCHIN COVE, a man who robs children; a little man.-Ancient Cant. KIRK, a church or chapel; "crack a KIRK," i.e., to break into a church.Prison Cant.

KIT, a person's baggage. Also, a collection of anything, "the whole KIT of 'em," the entire lot. Anglo-Saxon, KYTH.-North.

KITE, see FLY THE KITE.

KITMEGUR, an under-butler, a footman.-Anglo-Indian.

KNACKER, an old horse; a horse-slaughterer.-Gloucestershire.

KNAP, to receive, to take; "oh, my! won't he just KNAP it when he can!"

i.e., won't he take anything if he gets a chance.

KNAP, i.q., NAP, to break. - Old English, but nearly obsolete.

See Ps.

xlvi. 9, (Prayer-book version,) "He breaketh the bow, and KNAPPETH the spear in sunder;" probably sibilated into SNAP.

KNAPPING-JIGGER, a turnpike gate; "to dub at the KNAPPING-JIGGER,” to pay money at the turnpike.

KNARK, a hard-hearted or savage person.

KNIFE, "to KNIFE a person," to stab; an un-English, but now-a-days a very common expression.

KNIFE IT, "cut it," cease, stop, don't proceed.

KNIFE-BOARD, the seat running along the roof of an omnibus.

"On 'busses' KNIFEBOARDS stretch'd,

The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay."

-A Summer Idyll, by Arthur Smith.

KNIGHT, a common and ironical prefix to a man's calling, thus " KNIGHT of the whip," a coachman; "KNIGHT of the thimble," a tailor. "KNOCK ABOUT THE BUB," to hand or pass about the drink. KNOCK-DOWN, or KNOCK-ME-DOWN, strong ale.

KNOCK-EM-DOWNS, a public-house game.

KNOCK OFF, to give over, or abandon. A saying used by workmen about dinner, or other meal times, for upwards of two centuries. KNOCKED UP, tired, jaded, used up, done for. In the United States, amongst females, the phrase is equivalent to being enceinte, so that Englishmen often unconsciously commit themselves when amongst our Yankee cousins.

KNOCKER, "up to the KNOCKER," finely or showily dressed, the height of fashion; proficient, equal to the task.

KNOCK-IN, the game of loo.

KNOCK-OUTS, or KNOCK-INS, disreputable persons who visit auction rooms and unite to purchase the articles at their own prices. One of their number is instructed to buy for the rest, and after a few small bids as blinds to the auctioneer and bystanders, the lot is knocked down to the KNOCK-OUT bidders, at a nominal price-the competition to result from an auction being thus frustrated and set aside. At the conclusion of the sale the goods are paid for, and carried to a neighbouring public-house, where they are re-sold or KNOCKED-OUT, and the difference between the first purchase and the second-or tap-room KNOCK-OUT--is divided amongst the gang. As generally happens with KNAP, to steal.-Prison Cant.