1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue: Section X,Y AND Z

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Section X,Y AND Z

XANTIPPE. The name of Socrates's wife: now used to signify a shrew or scolding wife.

YAFFLING. Eating. CANT.

TO YAM. To eat or stuff heartily.

YANKEY, or YANKEY DOODLE. A booby, or country
  lout: a name given to the New England men in North
  America. A general appellation for an American.

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 simple 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.

TO YELP. To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions.

YEST. A contraction of yesterday.

YOKED. Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour performed at one spell by husbandmen, the day's work being divided in summer into three yokes. Kentish term.

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

YOUNG ONE. A familiar expression of contempt for another's ignorance, as "ah! I see you're a young one." How d'ye do, young one?

TO YOWL. To cry aloud, or howl.

ZAD. Crooked like the letter Z. He is a mere zad, or perhaps zed; a description of a very crooked or deformed person.

ZANY. The jester, jack pudding, or merry andrew, to a
  mountebank.

ZEDLAND. Great part of the west country, where the
  letter Z is substituted for S; as zee for see, zun for sun,

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