A New and Comprehensive
Vocabulary of the Flash Language
Q
- Q
- Sometimes called going upon the Q.
- queer
- bad , counterfeit , false , unwell in health
- queer ~ queer-bit
- base money
- queer screens
- forged bank-notes
- queer it
- to spoil it , which see
- queer-bail
- persons of no repute , hired to bail a prisoner in any bailable case
- These men, called broomsticks, are to be had in London for a trifling sum.
- quid
- a guinea
- quod
- a gaol
- To quod a person is to send him to gaol.
To be in quod is to be in gaol.
- quod-cove
- the keeper of a gaol
- quodding-dues
- see dues
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A New and Comprehensive
Vocabulary of the Flash Language
Alan Wood