Vocabulary of the Flash Language

Vocabulary of the Flash Language

Slang used by convicts deported to Australia in the early 1800s

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Q . See LETTER Q. QUEER . bad; counterfeit; false; unwell in health. QUEER IT . to spoil it, which see. QUEER SCREENS . forged Bank-notes. QUEER, or QUEER-BIT . base money. QUEER-BAIL . Persons of no repute, hired to bail a prisoner in any bailable case; these men are to be had in London for a trifling sum, and are called Broomsticks. QUID . a guinea. QUOD . a gaol. To quod a person is to send him to gaol. In quod, is in gaol. QUOD-COVE . the keeper of a gaol. QUODDING-DUES . See DUES.

Old English 'word lottery' pick Provisionally : adv. By way of provision for the time being; temporarily.

A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language by James Hardy Vaux, 1819
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Slang used by convicts deported to Australia in the early 1800s