ENDNOTES: CONVICT SLANG

ANDREW MILLER’S LUGGER:
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, Kippen, Rebecca, ‘Sickness and Death on Convict Voyages to Australia’, Lives in Transition, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Baskerville, Peter & Inwood, Kris, (ed), Canada, 2015: 43-70; Freeman, Gillian, The Liberty Man, Longsmans Green and Co, London, 1955: 62; www.rmg.co.uk; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

AREA SNEAK, or AREA SLUM:
Lincolnshire Chronicle, 23 August 1839: 1; SANSW: TL 45/1672 [4/4415; Reel 1027]; The Digital Panopticon George Colben b. 1817, Life Archive ID obpdef1-2222-18390812 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef1-2222-18390812 consulted 6th May 2018); State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X642A]; Microfiche: 742; The Sydney Herald, 24 October 1831: 4.

ARM-PITS:
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Crimes.jsp; New South Wales Government. Musters and other papers relating to convict ships. Series CGS 1155, Reels 2417-2428. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; The Digital Panopticon Anthony Jackson , Life Archive ID fasai35834 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=fasai35834 consulted 4th April 2018); Anthony Jackson per Juliana CON31/1/23; Hobart Town Gazette, 24 December 1825: 3.

AWAKE:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 08 February 2018), September 1828, trial of JAMES ALLEN (t18280911-111); James Allen per Georgina CON31/1/1.

BACK-JUMP:
Globe, 7 April 1825: 4; Leicester Chronicle, 8 January 1825: 4.

BACK-SLANG:
The Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site, National Trust of Australia, Hobart, 2007: 18-19; John Hansell per Sir Charles Forbes CON31/1/19.

BACK-SLUM:
Royal Cornwall Gazette, 29 October 1841: 4; The Australian, 25 November 1845: 3.

BAD HALFPENNY:
Cheshire Observer, 10 August 1867: 5.

BANDS:
London Evening Standard, 20 June 1832; Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties, 24 August 1832; Dennis Collins per Emperor Alexander CON31/1/7; Weidenhofer, Maggie, Port Arthur: A; Farmer, William, Henley, William, ed., Historical Dictionary of Slang. Three Hundred Years of Colloquial, Unorthodox and Vulgar English. Book 1. A-K., Wordsworth, Ware, 1987; Place of Misery, B. & M. Reid with Port Arthur Management Authority, Melbourne, 1990: 117-118.

BANG-UP:
The Sydney Herald, 23 July 1832: 2.

BARNACLES:
Evening Mail, 23 January 1824: 3; Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 25 January 1824: 6.

BASH:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser ,10 June 1837: 3; Australian Convict Sites, World Heritage Nomination, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra, 2008: 217; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

BASTILE:
The Ballarat Star, 7 August 1900: 4, Eastwood, Jill, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Suffolk, Owen Hargraves; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 12 July 1832: 3; The Cornwall Chronicle, 9 June 1838: 2.

BEAK:
Rawlings, Philip, Fielding, Sir John (1721-1780), magistrate, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, oxfordindex.oup.com; Moote, Lloyd, Dorothy, Moote, The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004: 10-11; Hotten, John Camden, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, London, 1860.

BEAN:
Windsor and Eton Express, 29 December 1838: 4.

BEEF:
Morning Chronicle, 4 October 1832: 4; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 28 May 2018), April 1830, trial of MARY ANN JONES (t18300415-323); The Digital Panopticon Mary Ann Jones b. 1814, Life Archive ID obpt18300415-323-defend2697 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18300415-323-defend2697 consulted 28th May 2018).

BENDER:
The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser, 14 June 1856: 4; Northampton Mercury, 5 January 1839: 5.

BEST:
McSherry, Bernadette, Managing Fear: The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment, Routledge, 2013: 13; Empire, 15 May 1865: 8; Penzig, Edgar, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Ban Hall.

BETTY:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 27 May 1854: 3; The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser, 3 June 1854: 2; artridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; The Age, 31 March 2007.

BIT:
Haggart, David, The Life of David Haggart … Written by Himself, James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1821: 104; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

BIT-FAKER; BIT-FAKING:
White, John, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions, University of Sydney Library Sydney, Australia, 2001: http://adc.library.usyd.edu.au/data-2/p00092.pdf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Medal

BLACK DIAMONDS:
The Australian, 23 August 1826: 3; Brand, Ian, The Port Arthur Coal Mines, 1833-1877, Regal Press, Launceston, 1993: 79.

BLEEDERS:
Clark, Julia, ed., The Career of William Thompson, Convict, Port Arthur Historic Sites, Port Arthur, 2009: 134; Leppard, Chris, The Role of Convict Leg Irons, PhD thesis, University of Tasmania, 2007: 89.

BLOODY-JEMMY:
Bee, John, Sportman’s Slang; a New Dictionary of Terms Used in the Affairs of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase and the Cock-pit; with Those of Bon-ton and the Varieties of Life (etc.) W. Lewis, London, 1825; Bendigo Advertiser, 3 September 1858: 3; The Star, 21 October 1858: 2.

BLOW THE GAFF:
The Sydney Herald, 10 September 1832: 2.

BLOWEN:
O’Connell, James, A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands, B. B. Mussey, Boston, 1836: 49-51; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; Farmer, William, Henley, William, ed., Historical Dictionary of Slang. Three Hundred Years of Colloquial, Unorthodox and Vulgar English. Book 1. A-K., Wordsworth, Ware, 1987.

BLUE-PIGEON; BLUE-PIGEON FLYING:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 April 2018), February 1787, trial of JOHN COX (t17870221-48); The Digital Panopticon John Cox , Life Archive ID obpt17870221-48-defend605 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt17870221-48-defend605 consulted 5th April 2018).

BLUNT:
The Sydney Herald, 9 July 1832: 2; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 30 November 1837: 3; Farmer, William, Henley, William, ed., Historical Dictionary of Slang. Three Hundred Years of Colloquial, Unorthodox and Vulgar English. Book 1. A-K., Wordsworth, Ware, 1987; Lindemann, Mary, The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648–1790, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2014: 254.

BOB, or BOBSTICK:
Farmer, William, Henley, William, ed., Historical Dictionary of Slang. Three Hundred Years of Colloquial, Unorthodox and Vulgar English. Book 1. A-K., Wordsworth, Ware, 1987; The Star, 6 October 1863: 4.

BODY-SNATCHER:
Curiosities of Street Literature, Comprising “cocks,” Or “catch Pennies”: A Large and Curious Assortment of Street-drolleries, Squibs, Histories, Comic Tales in Prose and Verse, Broadsides…, Reeves and Turner, London, 1871: 190; Leeds Intelligencer 8 December 1831; Newgate Calendar VOL5 1831.

BOLT:
Syme, J., Nine Years in Van Diemen’s Land, the author, Dundee, 1848: 195; Luke Roberts per Woodford CON31/1/34; Laugensen, Amanda, Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia, Oxford University Press, 2002: 30; 39-40.

BOLT-IN-TURN:
Larwood, Jacob & Hotten, John Camden, The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Chatto and Windus, London, 1867: 471; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 09 February 2018), November 1834, trial of JOHN WEST (t18341124-9); John West per Mangles CON31/1/47.

BONED:
The Mercury, 24 November 1869: 2; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

BONNET:
The Sydney Herald, 28 January 1833: 2; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 09 February 2018), January 1814, trial of MARY FERCLEY MARY SMITH WILLIAM PERRY (t18140112-68).

BOUNCE:
The Sydney Herald, 8 August 1833: 3.

BOWLED OUT:
The Sydney Herald, 14 May 1832: 3; SANSW; Roll: 181.

BRACE UP:
Launceston Examiner, 2 May 1846: 4; Joseph Lawrence per Moffat CON31/1/25; CON37/1/4; Colonial Times, 7 December 1847: 3.

BRADS:
Colonial Times, 15 October 1855: 3; George Neal per Asia CON37/1/8.

BREAKING UP OF THE SPELL:
Barrington, George, Australian Dictionary of Biography; Northern Daily Telegraph, 12 October 1889: 3; Dublin Daily Express, 27 June 1889: 4; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; Fisk, Deborah Payne, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

BREECH’D:
Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 15 November 1835: 4; Hertford Mercury and Reformer, 15 December 1835: 2; Reading Mercury 17 December 1792: 1; Clark, Gregory, Average Earnings and Retail Prices, UK, 1209-2010, University of California, 2011, Table 17.

BRIDGE:
The Tasmanian 17 March 1832; Colonial Times, 19 June 1832.

BROADS:
The Argus, 16 July 1857: 6; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

BROWNS and WHISTLERS:
Chester Courant, 6 December 1796: 1; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

BUB:
The Sydney Morning Herald, April 23, 1853: 5; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 23 April 1853: 2; The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 December 1853: 5.

BUFF:
Colonial Times, 2 June 1835: 8; Houghton Hinton per Caledonia CON31/1/18; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

BUFFER:
Weekly Times, 23 January 1897: 8; The Daily News, 21 May 1889: 3; Western Mail, 25 May 1889: 9; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

BUG or BUG OVER:
Class: HO 27; Piece: 33; Page: 273; Charles Hogan per Marmion CON31/1/19; CON32/1/2; John Sallows per Gilmore CON33/1/39; Ancestry.com. UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1857, Gilmore, 1843.

BULL:
Lang, John, Botany Bay, or, True Tales of Early Australia, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2004; Lord, Richard, The Isle of the Dead…1830-1877, Author, Hobart, 1985: 30-33.

BULL-DOG:
South Australian Register, 13 November 1857: 3.

BULL-HANKERS:
Derrincourt, William, Becke, Louis, ed., Old Convict Days, Penguin, Blackburn, 1975. First published in 1889: 10; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 April 2018), April 1839, trial of JOHN COPPING (t18390408-1161).; Report from the Committee on the State of the Police of the Metropolis: with the minutes of evidence taken before the Committee; and, an appendix of sundry papers, House of Commons, London, 1816: 316.

BUM-CHARTER:
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 22 May 1897: 4.

BUM-TRAP:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 13 September 1834: 1; Launceston Advertiser, 3 March 1836: 4; Empire, 8 September 1857: 4; South Australian Free Press, 5 November 1853: 9.

BUNCE:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 April 2018), March 1835, trial of RICHARD JEWSON WILLIAM JOHNSON (t18350302-670); Richard Jewson, per Bardaster CON31/1/25; Colonial Times, 7 August 1838: 7; Mahew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, Griffin, Bohn and Company, London, 1861; Hotten, John Camden, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, London, 1860.

BURICK:
The Westminster Review, Vol. LIII, Leonard Scott & Co., New York, 1850: 244; https://www.jenwilletts.com/searchaction.php?page=26&surname=&ship=1820&firstname=; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 12 February 1853: 2; The Cornwall Chronicle, 28 November 1846: 920; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

BUSH’D:
Wills, Rob, Alias Blind Larry: The Mostly True Memoir of James Laurence The Singing Convict, Australian Scholarly, Victoria, 2016; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 17 July 1808: 1 & 24 July 1813: 2 & 21 August 1813: 2; Baxter, Carol, ed., Musters of NSW and Norfolk Island 1805-1806, ABGR, Sydney, 1989: 97; Wells, Thomas, Michael Howe: The Last and Worst of the Bushrangers of Van Diemen’s Land: A Facsimile Reproduction, Platypus Publications, Hobart, 1966: 33; The Mercury, 21 July 1870: 2; Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 16 December 1825: 3.

BUSHY-PARK:
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 12 April 1862: 3; The Mercury, 14 April 1862: 2.

BUSTLE:
The Australian, 25 October 1826: 3.

BUZ:
The Digital Panopticon Michael Bryant b. 1829, Life Archive ID obpdef1-649-18510203 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef1-649-18510203 consulted 12th February 2018); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 12 February 2018), February 1851, trial of MICHAEL BRYANT (t18510203-649); Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, Reel No. FCN39, Ref. No. ACC 128/1-32.

BUZ-COVE, or BUZ-GLOAK:
Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier , 4 December 1827: 4; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

CABIN:
Haebich, Anna, Broken Circles, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2000: 80; Morning Chronicle, 12 February 1845: 3; Ingleton, Geoffrey Chapman, ed., True Patriots All, or News from Early Australia, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1952: 209; Barbara Valentine, ‘Munro, James (1779–1845)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/munro-james-13122/text23745, published first in hardcopy 2005, accessed online 12 February 2018; Broxam, Graeme, Nash, Michael, Tasmanian Shipwrecks, Volume I: 1797-1899, Navarine, Hobart, 2013: 28-32.

CADGE:
Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 12 February 2018), October 1854, trial of JAMES NORTON (t18541023-1151); London Evening Standard, 30 October 1851: 4.

CADGE-GLOAK:
London Evening Standard, 30 October 1851: 4; The Sydney Herald, 13 May 1833: 2; Shaw, William, The Land of Promise; Or, My Impressions of Australia, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., London, 1854: 62; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

CANT OF DOBBIN:
Morning Post, 11 May 1833; Barnard, Simon, Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016: 58; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

CARDINAL:
Morning Advertiser, 5 December 1844: 4 & 14 December 1844: 4; Farmer, William, Henley, William, ed., Historical Dictionary of Slang. Three Hundred Years of Colloquial, Unorthodox and Vulgar English. Book 1. A-K., Wordsworth, Ware, 1987.

CARRY THE KEG:
Launceston Advertiser, 26 March 1835: 4; Colonial Times, 18 August 1835: 8; James Leach per Manlius CON31/1/28; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823.

CASTOR:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 29 March 1827: 3; Hobart Town Gazette, 29 April 1826: 2; Burn, David, A Picture of Van Diemen’s Land, Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart, 1973: 67; Sargent, Clem, The Colonial Garrison 1817-1824: the 48th Foot… TCS Publications, Canberra, 1996: 80; The Australian, 10 May 1826: 4; Maynard, Margaret, Fashioned From Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994: 13.

CAT and KITTEN RIG:
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 25 November 1828: 3; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 April 2018), September 1813, trial of ELIZABETH JENKINS (t18130915-20); Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, Vol 1, Cosmo Classics, New York, 2009: 415.

CAZ:
The Melbourne Daily News, 26 April 1850: 2; O’Reilly, Edward, An Irish-English Dictionary, J,Barlow, Dublin, 1817.

CHANDLER-KEN:
The New Sprees of London, or, a Guide to all the Flash Cribs of the Metropolis…, H. Smith, London, 1844: 21.

CHANT:
Bury and Norwich Post, 2 September 1829: 2; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4015]; Microfiche: 676; The Sydney Herald, 12 March 1832: 4; Barnard, Simon, Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016: 42-43.

CHARLEY:
State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Card Index to Letters Received, Colonial Secretary; Reel Number: 775; Roll Number: 1250; The Sydney Monitor, 1 September 1832: 2 & 17 January 1834: 4; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 26 May 1825:3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

CHARLEY-KEN:
Richard Pile per Marion CON33/1/53; The Courier, 16 January 1847: 3.

CHATS; CHATTY:
George Baker per Somersetshire CON33/1/21; Grose, Francis, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Hooper and Wigstead, London, 1796.

CHAUNT:
Wills, Rob, Alias Blind Larry: The Mostly True Memoir of James Laurence The Singing Convict, Australian Scholarly, Victoria, 2016.

CHINA STREET:
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 15 April 1830: 99.

CHIV:
George Bradley per Equestrian, CON33/1/54; Charles Fisher per Equestrian CON33/1/72; William Courtney per Asia, CON33/1/2; Colonial Times, 23 October 1846: 3; Smart, B.C., & Crofton, H. T., The Dialect of the English Gypsies, Asher and Co., London, 1875: 64.

CHRISTEN:
State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Card Index to Letters Received, Colonial Secretary; Reel Number: 775; Roll Number: 1250; The Sydney Herald, 1 June 1837: 2; The Australian, 13 August 1840: 2; Hampshire Chronicle, 7 May 1821: 4; State Archives NSW; Roll: 851; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 27 February 1830: 3; 9 March 1830: 3; Barnard, Simon, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014: 29.

CHUM:
The Sydney Herald, 17 February 1834: 1; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X635]; Microfiche: 706; The Australian, 2 September 1829: 3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Wathen, George Henry, The Golden Colony: or Victoria in 1854…, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1855: 62; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823.

CHURY:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 7 November 1835: 2; The Sydney Herald, 9 November 1835: 2; Smart, B.C., & Crofton, H. T., The Dialect of the English Gypsies, Asher and Co., London, 1875: 12.

CLEANED OUT:
Bendigo Advertiser, 18 September 1857: 2; Colonial Times, 31 January 1854: 2; AUSTRALIAN GAMBLING COMPARATIVE HISTORY AND ANALYSIS Project Report, 1999; Connor, Michael, Pig Bites Baby, Stories from Australia’s First Newspaper, Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney, 2003: 153-154.

CLOUT:
Morning Post, 10 October 1838: 4; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

CLOUTING:
Hotten, John Camden, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, London, 1859: 56; Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, 22 January 1851: 4; Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 18 January 1851: 5.

CLY:
The Sydney Herald, 30 July 1832: 1; The Sydney Monitor, 1 August 1832: 3; Hotten, John Camden, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, London, 1860.

CLY-FAKER:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 17 March 1860: 3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Mar 1860: 3.

COACH-WHEEL:
Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court, 19 September 1836: 16. Thomas Lucas per Elphinstone CON31/1/25.

COME; COME IT:
See: DUMMY-HUNTERS.

COME TO THE HEATH:
Essex Newsman 28 November 1936: 4; Chelmsford Chronicle 26 December 1924: 4.

COME TO THE MARK:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 06 April 2018), July 1819, trial of BENJAMIN HINKS JAMES FRANCIS (t18190707-79); Benjamin Hinks per Caledonia CON31/1/18; Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 14 July 1819: 3.

CONK:
Thomas Way per Susan CON33/1/24; Bell’s Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle, 27 Nov 1858: 3; Empire, 6 July 1858: 2; The Argus, 17 July 1858: 5. Thomas Tweddle per Norfolk Class: HO 11; Piece: 10; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

COVE:
The North Eastern Ensign, 17 November 1891: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

COVER:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 April 2018), June 1818, trial of HENRY TAYLOR JOHN HOLLAND HENRY FEATHERS JOHN GLOVER (t18180617-77).

COVESS:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 April 2018), July 1819, trial of SARAH LYON ESTHER LEVY (t18190707-21); Morning Advertiser, 9 July 1819: 3; Bury and Norwich Post, 21 July 1819: 4.

CRAB; CRAB’D:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 April 2018), July 1819, trial of SARAH LYON ESTHER LEVY (t18190707-21).

CRABSHELLS:
Saunders’s News-Letter, 5 October 1832: 2.

CRACK:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 15 February 2018), June 1850, trial of GEORGE BROWN FREDERICK DOWDEN (t18500610-1157).

CRACKSMAN:
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 18 April 1835: 3; Manchester Times, 18 April 1835: 3; James Lowe per Layton CON31/1/28 & CON18/1/13; Colonial Times, 5 March 1844: 4.

CRACK A WHID:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 06 April 2018), May 1835, trial of JAMES WHITELOCK THOMAS JOHNSON (t18350511-1217).

CRACKER:
Garneray, Louis, The Floating Prison, Conway Maratime Press, London, 1988, First printed in 1864: 9-10; John Leonard’s Narrative, Popinjay Publications, Woden, 1987: 99-100.

CRAP; CRAP’D:
The Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site, National Trust of Australia, Hobart, 2007: 42; Harris, Steve, Solomon’s Noose: The True Story of Her Majesty’s Hangman of Hobart, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, 2015; Solomon Blay per Sarah CON/31/1/3; Brown, The Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site: 41-42; Colonial Times, 26 April 1842; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

CRIB:
The Sydney Herald, 9 January 1832: 3; Skeat, Walter William, Mayhew, Anthony Lawson, A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580, Clarendon press, Oxford, 1888: 54.

CROAK:
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal, 1 July 1882: 2; The Mt. Leonora Miner, 9 September 1899: 3; The Inquirer and Commercial News, 5 October 1894: 26; Hotten, John Camden, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, London, 1860.

CROOK:
Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser, 22 February 1865: 4; Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties, 27 March 1818: 1.

CROSS:
The Argus 26 April 1886: 6.

CROSS-COVE, or CROSS-MOLLISHER:
Reynolds’s Newspaper, 24 May 1857: 6.

CROSS-CRIB:
Colonial Times, 10 Feb 1835: 8.

CROSS-FAM:
Haggart, David, The Life of David Haggart … Written by Himself, James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1821: 14; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 06 April 2018), July 1829, trial of EDWARD DAVIES (t18290716-81); Globe, 18 March 1811: 4; Dublin Daily Express, 27 June 1889: 4.

CUTTING-GLOAK:
State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4005]; Microfiche: 635; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 06 April 2018), October 1810, trial of PETER ADAMS (t18101031-89); The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 5 December 1818: 2 & 12 December: 3.

DAB:
Harris, Alexander, Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years’ Labour in the Australian Backwoods, C. Cox, London, 1847: 39; Broxup, John. The Life of John Broxup: late convict of Van Diemen’s Land, Sullivan’s Cove, Hobart, 1973. 13; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 26 January 1827: 3; Tardiff, Phillip, Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1990: 19; Brand, Ian, Penal Peninsula. Port Arthur and its outstations 1827-1898, Regal Press, Launceston, 1998: 172; Minchin, Bob, Bolters for the Bush, Author, Hobart, 1996: 167; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

DAB IT UP:
Nicol, John, ed., Flannery, Tim, Life and Adventures 1776-1801, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2012; Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships 1787 – 1868, Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1985: 175.

DANCERS:
The Sydney Monitor, 7 May 1838: 2; Colonial Times, 16 September 1834:7; Launceston Examiner, 3 July 1897: 6; Partridge, Eric, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang, Routledge, 2006.

DANNA:
The Satirist and Sporting Chronicle, 25 March 1843: 3; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

DARBIES:
Colonial Times, 6 August 1844: 4; Ellen King per Hindostan CON40/1/6; Green, Jonathon, Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue, Atlantic Books, London, 2014.

DARKY:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 19 June 2018), June 1840, trial of RICHARD GOULD, alias Arthur Nicholson (t18400615-1696); The Digital Panopticon Richard Gould b. 1817, Life Archive ID obpdef1-1696-18400615 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef1-1696-18400615 consulted 19th June 2018).

DEATH-HUNTER:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 July 2018), September 1823, trial of WILLIAM PLAYER (t18230910-142); William Player per Phoenix CON31/1/34; HSD145/1/1 Nov 1867; HSD146/1/1 1867 Image 5; Miller, Linus, Notes of an Exile to Van Diemen’s Land, McKinstry, Fredonia, 1846: 347; The Mercury, 22 September 1902: 2.

DICKY, or DICK IN THE GREEN:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 9 March 1850: 3; The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 30 March 1850: 4; The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 March 1850: 3; The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 30 March 1850: 4.

DIMMOCK:
The Sydney Monitor, 31 January 1835: 2.

DING; DINGABLE:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 14 February 2018), February 1809, trial of JOHN WILLIAMS (t18090215-76).

DISPATCHES:
The Argus, 24 October 1867: 7.

DO:
Colonial Times, 26 October 1844: 3.

DO IT AWAY:
The Herald, 12 November1870: 3.

DO IT UP:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 18 July 1837: 3.

DO THE TRICK:
The Monitor, 22 May 1828: 8; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 23 May 1828: 2-3.

DOLLOP:
Barnard, Simon, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014: 3; Launceston Advertiser, 21 August 1834: 4; Howell Howell per Andromeda CON31/1/19.

DONE:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 19 January 2018), February 1825, trial of CHARLES NOBLE (t18250217-3); Morning Chronicle, 18 February 1825: 4; The Digital Panopticon Charles Noble b. 1788, Life Archive ID obpt18250217-3-defend86 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18250217-3-defend86 consulted 6th April 2018).

DORSE:
Kendal Mercury, 24 January 1852: 6 & 17 April 1852: 6; CON52/1/1; RGD37/1/12; Charles Walters per Aboukir CON31/1/106; Thomas Johnson per Aboukir CON31/1/106; Ellen Lynch per John William Dare, CON41/1/33; The Tasmanian Daily News, 17 July 1855: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

DOUBLE:
Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 14 October 1826: 2; Saunders’s News-Letter, 7 February 1829: 4; Freeman’s Journal, 5 October 1830: 3; Kerry Evening Post, 20 August 1831: 4.

DOUBLE-SLANGS:
The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, 29 July 1820: 2; The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, 26 August 1820: 2; Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships 1787 – 1868, Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1985: 221.

DOWN:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 06 April 2018), September 1837, trial of THOMAS STOKES JAMES HALLEN, alias HALLEM , alias SMITH (t18370918-2142); James Hallen per Moffatt, CON31/1/22.

DOWN AS A HAMMER; DOWN AS A TRIPPET:
Eward Barmmer per Asia CON27/1/8; Ross, Lynette, Death and Burial at Port Arthur, 1830-1877. Honours thesis, University of Tasmania, 2005.

DRAG:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 30 May 2018), January 1819, trial of JOHN ROBERTS (t18190113-38); Globe, 9 October 1818: 4; Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 10 March 1832: 2.

DRAG-COVE:
Barnard, Simon, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014: 59.

DRAGS MAN:
Colonial Times, 3 December 1833: 3; Launceston Advertiser, 11 December 1834: 3; The Independent, 6 December 1834: 3.

DRAKED:
Bell’s New Weekly Messenger, 2 April 1837: 10; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 July 2018), September 1785, trial of JOHN FRAY (t17850914-27).

DRAW:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 July 2018), August 1835, trial of GEORGE SAUNDERS (t18350817-1725).

DRIZ:
Hotten, John Camden, The Slang Dictionary, Etymological, Historical and Anecdotal, Chatto and Windus, London, 1874: 150; Mahew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, Griffin, Bohn and Company, London, 1861: 219.

DROP:
Morning Advertiser, 12 January 1836: 3.

DROP A WHID:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 April 2018), February 1732, trial of Thomas Faxton Thomas Smith (t17320223-31).

DROP-COVE:
Gloucester Journal, 20 February 1858: 3.

DRUMMOND:
The Sydney Monitor, 18 June 1831: 2; State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Card Index to Letters Received, Colonial Secretary; Reel Number: 800; Roll Number: 1250.

DUB:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 30 May 2018), May 1781, trial of JOHN M’NEIL WILLIAM JOHN RIDGELY , otherwise RICHLEY (t17810530-55); The Argus, 31 July 1893: 5; The Age, 3 August 1893: 6; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823.

DUB AT A KNAPPING-JIGGER:
Colonial Advocate, and Tasmanian Monthly Review and Register, 1 July 1828: 48; Colonial Times, 4 July 1828: 2; Barnard, Simon, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014: 46.

DUB-COVE, or DUBSMAN:
Tipperary Vindicator, 2 April 1845: 2; James Ryan per Ratcliffe CON27/1/11.

DUB UP:
Sydney Free Press, 19 April 1842: 3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

DUCE:
Kendal Mercury, 24 January 1852: 6 & 17 April 1852: 6.

DUDS:
Convict Lives: Women at Cascades Female Factory: 150; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 28 January 2018), May 1787, trial of ELIZABETH FARRELL (t17870523-31); Nicol, John, The life and adventures of John Nicol, T. Cadell, London, 1822: 121-122.

DUES:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 July 2018), September 1829, trial of RICHARD CHICK CHARLES WILLIAM ELLIOTT MARY CHICK MARY ELLIOTT (t18290910-112).

DUMMY:
Weekly Times, 17 August 1872: 12; The Argus, 20 August 1872: 7; Hotten, John Camden, The Slang Dictionary, Etymological, Historical and Anecdotal, Chatto and Windus, London, 1874: 153.

DUMMY-HUNTERS:
Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court, 5 January 1835: 51-57. Drogheda Journal, or Meath & Louth Advertiser, 27 December 1834: 2; Thomas Swindle per Mangles CON18/1/16: 139; The Cornwall Chronicle, 20 May 1837: 2; The Cornwall Chronicle, 17 February 1838: 1.

EARWIG:
Morning Advertiser, 17 April 1849: 4; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 April 2018), April 1849, trial of MARY KINSDALE ALBERT PRIOR (t18490409-993).

FADGE:
Spedding, Patrick, Watt, Paul, Cray, Ed, Gregory, David, Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Vol. 4, Routledge, 2012: 280-81; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 25 July 2018), May 1831, trial of LAURA WHITTAKER (t18310512-152); Laura Whittaker per Mary CON40/1/9.

FAKE:
Bristol Mirror 3 April 1819: 3; James Mason per Dromedary CON31/1/29; James Mason per Dromedary CON31/1/20.

FAKE AWAY, THERE’S NO DOWN:
The Tasmanian Colonist, 26 October 1854: 2.

FAKEMAN-CHARLEY; FAKEMENT:
The Australian, 8 March 1845: 4; The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 1845: 2.

FAM:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; The Hobart Town Courier, 18 September 1830: 3; Farmer, William, Henley, William, ed., Historical Dictionary of Slang. Three Hundred Years of Colloquial, Unorthodox and Vulgar English. Book 1. A-K., Wordsworth, Ware, 1987.

FAMILY:
Hitchcock, Tim, Shoemaker, Robert, London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015: 206; 229; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 14 February 2018), December 1749, trial of Earret Lawler (t17491209-6); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 14 February 2018), August 1839, trial of JAMES HOGAN JOHN AMES (t18390812-2167); James Hogan per Runnymede CON31/1/22; James Charles Gunyon per Woodford CON31/1/15; Sophia Gunyon per Mermaid CON40/1/3.

FAMILY-MAN, or WOMAN:
Colonial Times, 15 January 1839: 7; The Hobart Town Courier, 11 January 1839: 4; John Rossiter per Atlas CON31/1/37 & CON18/1/3; Colonial Times, 23 October 1838: 8.

FANCY:
The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 1845: 2; Commercial Journal and General Advertiser, 16 July 1845: 3; Commercial Journal and General Advertiser, 16 July 1845: 3 Empire; 14 September 1855: 5.

FAWNEY:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 April 2018), August 1878, trial of JAMES FITZGERALD (24) (t18780806-724); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 April 2018), September 1878, trial of WILLIAM COLLINS (28) (t18780916-812); Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

FAWNIED, or FAWNEY-FAM’D:
Wotherspoon, Garry, ‘Moonlight and… Romance?: The death-cell letters of Captain Moonlite and some of their implications,’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 78, 1992; Sparrow, Jeff, A Queer Bushranger, The Monthly, 2015.

FEEDER:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 13 February 2018), December 1828, trial of JOHN POWERS (t18281204-91); The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 6 April 1827: 3; Regulations for the Penal Settlement at Port Arthur, General Prison Regulations, House of Correction for Males, Situate within the Police District of Hobart In accordance with the Provisions of 8th Vict. No. 16, Tasmania, 1866.

FENCE:
The Sydney Monitor, 17 March 1830: 4; Sharman, R.C., Australian Dictionary of Biography, Isaac (Ikey) Solomon.

FIB:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 18 August 1832: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

FIBBING-GLOAK:
Caledonian Mercury 27 January 1834: 4; The Sydney Herald, 12 December 1831: 2.

FIBBING-MATCH:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 23 June 1860: 4; Thomas Way per Susan CON33/1/24; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 8 January 1814: 2.

FILE:
Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court, 4 September 1834: 62. ; The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 23 November 1848: 3. ; The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 1 July 1854: 2; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 17 July 1858: 3.

FINGER-SMITH:
Lennox, Geoff, Richmond Gaol: and Richmond Police District, Dormaslen Publications, Rosetta, 1993: 35; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 07 February 2018), October 1832, trial of MARY ANN WATSON RICHARD PARKINSON (t18321018-260); Mary Ann Watson per Jane CON19/1/13; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

FI’PENNY:
Mount Alexander Mail, 17 June 1887: 2; Chester Courant, 25 February 1800: 3.

FLASH:
The Cornwall Chronicle, 30 May 1846: 408; Stockdale, John, A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles Round Manchester: Containing Its Geography, Natural and Civil; Principal Productions; River and Canal Navigations … Buildings, Government, &c, Self, London, 1795: 437; Clark, Julia, ed., The Career of William Thompson, Convict. Port Arthur Historic Sites, Port Arthur, 2009: 80-81; Tasmanian Weekly Dispatch, 24 January 1840: 6; Morning Chronicle, 20 September 1845: 3; Colonial Times, 16 November 1844: 3.

FLASH-COVE, or COVESS:
Wills, Rob, Alias Blind Larry: The Mostly True Memoir of James Laurence The Singing Convict, Australian Scholarly, Victoria, 2016; The Sydney Herald, 22 January 1835: 2; The Sydney Monitor, 14 October 1835: 3.

FLASH-CRIB, FLASH-KEN, or FLASH-PANNY:
Morning Chronicle, 11 April 1831: 2; Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 10 April 1831: 2; The Sydney Herald, 29 August 1831: 4.

FLASH-MAN:
The Argus, 7 May 1857: 5.

FLASH-MOLLISHER:
Transcript of The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Female Convict Prison Discipline, CSO 22/1/50 AOT, femaleconvicts.org.

FLASH-SONG:
Kilkenny Journal, and Leinster Commercial and Literary Advertiser, 18 January 1832: 3.

FLESH-BAG:
Stamford Mercury, 15 March 1844: 1; William Bates per Agincourt CON33/1/83.

FLAT:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 March 2018), June 1818, trial of THOMAS SAUNDERS (t18180617-42); Thomas Saunders per Surrey CON31/1/38.

FLAT-MOVE:
Cowley, Trudy Mae, A Drift of ‘Derwent Ducks’: Lives of the 200 Female Irish Convicts Transported on the Australasia from Dublin to Hobart in 1849, Research Tasmania, New Town, 2005: 245 – 246. The Mercury, 20 August 1879: 2.

FLATS:
John Glanville per Susan CON33/1/24.

FLIP:
Farmer, William, Henley, William, ed., Historical Dictionary of Slang. Three Hundred Years of Colloquial, Unorthodox and Vulgar English. Book 1. A-K., Wordsworth, Ware, 1987; South Australian Register, 2 November 1881: 6; Yorke’s Peninsula Advertiser, 9 December 1881: 3.

FLOOR:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 7 January 1837: 3; The Sydney Monitor, 4 January 1837: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

FLOOR’D:
The Sydney Herald, 29 October 1832: 2.

FLUE-FAKER:
Worcestershire Chronicle, 8 September 1841: 3; Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 30 July 1817: 1; Joseph Rae per Lady Castlereagh CON31/1/34.

FLY:
Shaw, William, The Land of Promise; or, My Impressions of Australia. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London, 1854: 31-34; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

FLY THE MAGS:
Victorian Express, 3 August 1889: 6.

FOGLE:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 09 April 2018), June 1818, trial of HENRY TAYLOR JOHN HOLLAND HENRY FEATHERS JOHN GLOVER (t18180617-77); The Digital Panopticon Henry Taylor b. 1800, Life Archive ID obpt18180617-77-defend679 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18180617-77-defend679 consulted 10th May 2018); The Digital Panopticon John Holland b. 1796, Life Archive ID obpt18180617-77-defend681 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18180617-77-defend681 consulted 10th May 2018); The Digital Panopticon Henry Feathers b. 1800, Life Archive ID obpt18180617-77-defend683 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18180617-77-defend683 consulted 10th May 2018); The Digital Panopticon John Glover b. 1798, Life Archive ID obpt18180617-77-defend685 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18180617-77-defend685 consulted 10th May 2018); Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

FORKS:
Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court, 20 September 1852: 85.

FOSS, or PHOS:
Collier Bakewell, Frederick, Great Facts: A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the Present Century, Houlston and Wright, 1859: 213; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 30 May 2018), April 1800, trial of EDWARD DAVIS (t18000402-4); The Digital Panopticon Edward Davis b. 1777, Life Archive ID obpt18000402-4-defend61 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18000402-4-defend61 consulted 30th May 2018).

FRISK:
The Australian 24 July 1829: 3.

GAFF:
Empire, 29 December 1857: 2 & 20 January 1858: 5; The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 January 1858: 3; Elijah Molineux per York CON31/1/30.

GALANEY:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 April 2018), June 1831, trial of BENJAMIN TAYLOR (t18310630-49); Laugensen, Amanda, Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia, Oxford University Press, 2002: 30; 39-40; State Archives NSW; Roll: 854; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

GALLOOT:
Ancestry.com. UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1857, Waterloo, 1833; The Sydney Herald, 5 August 1833: 2.

GAME:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 17 January 2018), October 1826, trial of LEWIS MERRY WEBLEY JAMES SAWYER CHARLES CORNWELL (t18261026-44).

GAMMON:
The Sydney Herald, 16 January 1832: 2; The Cornwall Chronicle, 5 November 1850: 770; Stratmann, Francis Henry, A Dictionary of the Old English Language of the XIII., XIV and XV. Centuries, author, Krefeld, 1867: 232.

GAMMON THE TWELVE:
Morning Chronicle, 6 March 1830: 4; Globe, 9 March 1830: 4.

GAMS:
Morning Post, 26 December 1836: 4.

GARNISH:
The Australian, 19 May 1829: 3; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 26 May 1829: 3; The Australian, 12 May 1829: 3.

GARDEN:
John Gardner per Elizabeth Henrietta CON31/1/15: 109; The Cornwall Chronicle, 19 August 1837: 2; The Cornwall Chronicle, 11 November 1837: 2.

GARRET:
Kyneton Guardian, 31 December 1873: 3; The Argus, 29 June 1859: 6; Gippsland Times, 16 April 1870: 3.

GEORGY:
The Queenslander, 23 November 1872: 10; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

GILL:
Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 21 November 1835: 3.

GIVE IT TO:
The Ballarat Star, 25 Mar 1865: 2; Mount Alexander Mail, 8 Apr 1865: 2.

GLAZE:
The Sydney Herald, 26 Dec 1831: 4; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 1150; Item: [SZ115]; Microfiche: 624.

GLIM:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 4 April 1835: 2.

GLIM-STICK:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 17 November 1836: 3; Karskens, Grace, The Rocks, Sydney Journal. 2009, UTS ePress.

GNARL:
Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 18 January 2018), December 1788, trial of THOMAS THRUSH , otherwise THRUST JOHN MERRYMAN THOMAS CHAFFY (t17881210-4); Flynn, Michael, The Second Fleet: Britain’s Grim Convict Armada of 1790, Library of Australia, 1993: 106; Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen’s Land Gazette, 11 June 1841; Davis, Richard, The Tasmanian Gallows: A Study of Capital Punishment, Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart, 1974: 55.

GO-ALONGER:
The Hobart Town Courier, 2 May 1829: 2; William Edwards per Georgina CON31/1/9; CON18/1/8.

GO OUT:
Jonathan Stead per William Metcalfe CON31/1/40; Fanny Stead per Edward CON40/1/9.

GOOD:
Hotten, John Camden, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, London, 1860; Bell’s New Weekly Messenger, 4 January 1846: 6; Kendal Mercury, 24 January 1852: 6; Kendal Mercury, 24 January 1852: 6; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 6 April 1837: 3; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

GRAB; GRAB’D:
Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier, 22 March 1825: 4; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4011]; Microfiche: 660; State Archives NSW; Roll: 851; The Sydney Herald, 20 August 1832: 3; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 3 November 1832: 2 & 6 November: 3.

GRAY:
The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 January 1874: 5; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

GROCERY:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 20 November 1847: 3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 December 1847: 2; State Archives NSW; Roll: 857; State Archives NSW; Roll: 854; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

GRUB:
Select Committee on Transportation, ‘Report from the Select Committee on Transportation…’, 1837, House of Commons, London, 1838; The Hobart Town Courier, 7 Nov 1834: 2; The Sydney Herald, 7 May 1832: 2; The Sydney Monitor, 2 May 1832: 2; Australian Convict Sites, World Heritage Nomination, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra, 2008: 217-218; The Sydney Herald, 1 August 1833: 3.

GUN:
The Mercury 3 November 1880: 3.

HADDOCK:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 10 April 2018), September 1793, trial of MARY CARTY otherwise MACARTHY (t17930911-103); The Digital Panopticon Mary Carty b. 1773, Life Archive ID obpt17930911-103-defend1121 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt17930911-103-defend1121 consulted 10th April 2018); Trench Chenevix, Richard, Notes on the Miracle of Our Lord, D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1857: 309.

HALF A BEAN, HALF A QUID:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 06 March 2018), July 1804, trial of GADALIAH PHILIPS (t18040704-64); Saunders’s News-Letter, 16 July 1804: 1; Hotten, John Camden, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, London, 1860.

HALF A BULL:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 May 2018), November 1843, trial of ROBERT HOWARD WILLIAM JEROME JOHN STEVENS (t18431127-243); The Digital Panopticon Robert Howard b. 1826, Life Archive ID obpdef1-243-18431127 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef1-243-18431127 consulted 31st May 2018); The Digital Panopticon William Jerome b. 1826, Life Archive ID obpdef2-243-18431127 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef2-243-18431127 consulted 31st May 2018); The Digital Panopticon John Stevens b. 1826, Life Archive ID obpdef3-243-18431127 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef3-243-18431127 consulted 31st May 2018); Bradley, Howard, A Handbook of Coins of the British Isles, Robert Hale, London, 1978: 15.

HALF-FLASH AND HALF-FOOLISH:
Rogers, Thomas, Correspondence relating to the dismissal of the Rev. T. Rogers, from his Chaplaincy at Norfolk Island, Henry Dowling, Launceston, 1849: 76, 169; John V. Barry, ‘Price, John Giles (1808–1857)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/price-john-giles-2563/text3497, published first in hardcopy 1967, accessed online 23 January 2018.

HANG IT ON:
The Sydney Monitor, 25 June 1834: 4. Clark, C. M. H., Select Documents in Australian History, 1788-1850, Angus and Robertson, Australia, 1975: 141.

HANK:
Morning Post, 13 December 1825: 2; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 22 January 2018), December 1825, trial of JAMES PINKETT (t18251208-41); James Pinkett per Earl St. Vincent CON31/1/34.

HIGH-TOBY:
Morning Advertiser, 28 November 1840: 2; Sportsman, 31 May 1882: 3; The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 23 Dec 1882: 1123; The Sydney Herald 10 December 1840, Australasian Chronicle 25 February 1841; Levi, John, Bergman, G.F.J., Australian Genesis, Jewish Convicts and Settlers 1788-1860, Melbourne University Press, 2002: 242-243.

HIGH-TOBY-GLOAK:
The Herald, 24 October 1898: 1; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 23 January 2018), January 1789, trial of MARY WADE JANE WHITING (t17890114-58); Mary Wade to Us, 1778-1986: A Family History, ebook.

HIS-NABS:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 28 April 1855: 2-3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 April 1855: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

HOBBLED:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; The Cornwall Chronicle, 17 December 1864: 3 & 21 December 1864: 4; James Duck per Jupiter CON31/1/10.

HOG:
Dublin Morning Register, 26 June 1841: 3; Dublin Monitor, 26 June 1841: 3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

HOIST:
The Australian, 21 September 1847: 3; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 25 September 1847: 2.

HOPPER-DOCKERS:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 16 September 1824: 1; State Archives NSW, Butts of Certificates of Freedom. NRS 1165, 1166, 1167, 12208, 12210, reels 601, 602, 604, 982-1027; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 26 January 1827: 3.

HORNEY:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; The Sydney Herald, 24 September 1832: 2.

HOXTER:
The Argus, 6 August 1888: 7; The Herald, 6 August 1888: 3.

IN IT:
The Queenslander, 27 December 1890: 1234.

IN TOWN:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 06 February 2018), October 1830, trial of MARY ANN BROWN (t18301028-57); Colonial Times, 9 January 1838: 8; Colonial Times, 16 January 1838: 8; Mary Ann Brown per America CON40/1/1.

JACOB:
The Herald, 10 Aug 1867: 2

JACK:
Kerr, James, Design for convicts… Library of Australian History in association with the National Trust of Australia and the Australian Society for Historical Archaeology, Sydney 1984: 63; Mortlock, John, Frederick, Experiences of a Convict, Sydney University Press, London, 1965. First printed in 1864: 110.

JACK-BOY:
State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Title: Phoenix Hulk: Weekly Transportation Entrance Books, 1838-1846; Volume: 4/4538; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X633]; Microfiche: 696; Robert Callaghan per Louisa CON37/1/3; Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania, 11 August 1847:3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 June 1847: 3.

JACKET:
AOT, CSO 22/50.

JASEY:
Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser, 19 October 1844: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

JEMMY, or JAMES:
Launceston Examiner, 8 September 1847: 3 & 429 September 1847: 4; Rheuben Underhayes per Henry Porcher CON31/1/44; Charles Chapple, per Lady Raffles CON27/1/8.

JERRY:
Freeman’s Journal, 26 May 1877: 17.

JERVIS:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February 1847: 2; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 24 July 1847: 2 & 10 July 1852: 3.

JERVIS’S UPPER BENJAMIN:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 7 June 1856: 3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 June 1856: 5 & 27 June 1856: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

JIGGER:
Haggart, David, The Life of David Haggart … Written by Himself, James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1821: 88-98; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

JOB:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 24 January 2018), July 1830, trial of JOHN NASH JOHN HURLEY (t18300708-1); Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 6 June 1830: 6; London Courier and Evening Gazette, 1 June 1830: 4. John Nash per Red Rover CON31/1/33.

JOGUE:
The True Colonist, 26 May 1837: 6.

JOSKIN:
The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 April 1859: 5; 30 April 1859: 5; 8 June 1859: 5.

JUDGE:
Hainsworth, D.R., Simeon Lord, Australian Dictionary of Biography; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 16 February 1811: 2.

JUDGEMENT:
Holt, Joseph, ed., Croker, Thomas Crofton, Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798, Henry Colburn, London, 1838: 121.

JUDY:
The Australian, 1 November 1833: 3; Cruikshank, George, Cruikshank, Robert, Gallery of Comicalities; Embracing Humorous Sketches, Charles Hindley, London, 1880: 93.

JUGELOW:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 10 May 1831: 3; Cheltenham Chronicle, 3 March 1831: 2; Morning Advertiser, 14 January 1831: 4; Leeds Intelligencer, 18 November 1830: 3; Morning Star and Commercial Advertiser, 24 March 1835: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

JUMP:
Fielding, John, Thieving Detected: Being a True and Particular Description, of the Various Methods and Artifices, used by Thieves and Sharpers, to take in and Deceive the Public; With Proper Cautions to Guard Against Such Destructive Measures. Addressed (By Permission) To Sir John Fielding, and Very Necessary to re Read by all Magistrates, Merchants, Tradesmen, Inn-Keepers, Book-Keepers, Proprietors of Waggons, Machines, &C. And Those in Private Life. Author, London, 1777: 21; Monmouthshire Beacon, 18 November 1848: 2; Monmouthshire Merlin, 31 March 1849: 1.

KELP:
The Whole Art of Thieving and Defrauding Discovered: Being a Caution to all House-Keepers, Shop-Keepers, Salesmen, and Others, to Guard Against Robbers of Both Sexes, and The Best Methods to Prevent Their Villainies. To Which is Added, an Explanation of Most of the Cant Terms in the Thieving Language. London, 1786: 6-7; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 July 2018), September 1828, trial of MARTHA TURNER (t18280911-103); Derrincourt, William, Becke, Louis, ed., Old Convict Days, Penguin, Blackburn, 1975. First published in 1889: 47.

KEMESA:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 9 February 1850: 3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 February 1850: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

KEN:
Weekly Times, 28 May 1870: 6; The Age, 13 September 1870: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

KENT:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 14 November 1835: 2; The Australian, 24 November 1835: 3; www.law.mq.edu.au; Claypoole, James, Letter Book: London and Philadelphia, 1681-1684, Huntington Library, 1967: 119; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

KICK:
The Sydney Herald, 5 November 1835: 2 & 24 December 1835: 2; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4018]; Microfiche: 691.

KID; KIDDY:
The Colonist and Van Diemen’s Land Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser, 13 August 1833: 4; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

KID-RIG:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 March 2018), April 1827, trial of JOSEPH BISHOP (t18270405-65); The Digital Panopticon Joseph Bishop b. 1812, Life Archive ID obpt18270405-65-defend451 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18270405-65-defend451 consulted 3rd June 2018).

KINCHEN:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle, 1 December 1860: 2; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

KIRK:
The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 5 October 1838: 2.

KNAP:
The Champion, 8 July 1838: 7; The Digital Panopticon James Smith b. 1819, Life Archive ID btr47641 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=btr47641 consulted 4th June 2018).

KNAPPING A JACOB FROM A DANNA-DRAG:
Morning Post, 4 September 1833: 4.

KNUCK, KNUCKLER, or KNUCKLING-COVE; KNUCKLE:
Fielding, John, Thieving Detected: Being a True and Particular Description, of the Various Methods and Artifices, used by Thieves and Sharpers, to take in and Deceive the Public; With Proper Cautions to Guard Against Such Destructive Measures. Addressed (By Permission) To Sir John Fielding, and Very Necessary to re Read by all Magistrates, Merchants, Tradesmen, Inn-Keepers, Book-Keepers, Proprietors of Waggons, Machines, &C. And Those in Private Life. Author, London, 1777: 20; The Sydney Herald, 16 April 1832: 2.

LAG:
SRNSW, Card Index to Letters Received, Colonial Secretary; Reel Number: 774; Roll Number: 1250; Truth, 29 April 1900: 7; Old Times: An Unique Illustrated History of the Early Days, Vol. 1, Issues 1-4, Commercial Publishing Company, Sydney, 1903: 232; The Sydney Herald, 10 March 1836: 2; Northern Standard, 5 April 1845: 1. Baxter, Carol, The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable: A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit, Oneworld Publications, London, 2013.

LAGGER:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 19 October 1830: 3; Hampshire Chronicle, 15 March 1813: 4; Chesterton, George Laval, Revelations of Prison Life: With an Enquiry Into Prison Discipline and Secondary Punishments, Vol. 2., London, 1856: 33.

LAGGING-DUES:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 11 April 2018), September 1826, trial of CORNELIUS McCOY (t18260914-361).

LAGGING MATTER:
Clark, C. M. H., Select Documents in Australian History, 1788-1850, Angus and Robertson, Australia, 1975: 106; Australian Convict Sites, World; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 29 January 2018), September 1851, trial of MARY CUMMINGS (t18510915-1813)’ Mary Cummings per Duchess of Northumberland CON41/1/37.

LAG SHIP:
Flannery, Tim, ed., Watkin Tench 1788, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1996: 127-132: Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, Kippen, Rebecca, ‘Sickness and Death on Convict Voyages to Australia’, Lives in Transition, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Baskerville, Peter & Inwood, Kris, (ed), Canada, 2015: 43-70.h

LAMPS:
Harris, Steve, Solomon’s Noose: The True Story of Her Majesty’s Hangman of Hobart, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, 2015; Broxup, John. The Life of John Broxup: late convict of Van Diemen’s Land, Sullivan’s Cove, Hobart, 1973: 17; Colonial Times, 8 April 1834; Colonist, 3 June 1834.

LARK:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 11 April 2018), June 1847, trial of JOHN SULLIVAN (t18470614-1375); Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

LAWN:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 June 2018), April 1831, trial of ELIZABETH CANE (t18310407-265).

LEATHER-LANE:
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 3 July 1829: 3; Dale, Andrew, Most Honourable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes, Springer, Florida, 2003: 22.

LETTER Q:
Morning Post 10 November 1831: 2; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 29 January 2018), December 1831, trial of JOHN SMITH (t18311201-193); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 29 January 2018), December 1831, trial of JOHN SMITH (t18311201-194); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 29 January 2018), September 1836, trial of HENRY BELL (t18360919-2121).

LETTER-RACKET:
Windsor and Eton Express, 22 September 1838: 1; The Cornwall Chronicle, 20 December 1854: 3; Alfred Tallent per China CON33/1/87; CON37/1.

LEVANTING, or RUNNING A LEVANT:
Gibson, John, Deacon Brodie: Father to Jekyll and Hyde, Paul Harris Publishing, Edinburgh, 1977.; Creech, William, An Account of the Trial of William Brodie…, Author, Edinburgh, 1788.

LIFE:
Goldsmith, Oliver, The Vicar of Wakefield, Oxford University Press, 2006.

LIGHT:
Tasmanian Weekly Dispatch, 27 March 1840: 7; Henry Smart per Sarah CON31/1/40.

LILL:
Haggart, David, The Life of David Haggart … Written by Himself, James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1821: 16-17; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; Groome, Francis Hindes, In Gipsy Tents, William P. Nimmo & Co., Edinburgh, 1881: 251.

LINE:
The Age, 4 May 1857: 6; The Argus, 23 May 1857: 5.

LOB:
North Devon Journal, 16 April 1840: 3; John Day per Lord Lyndoch CON33/1/5; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

LOCK-UP-CHOVEY:
The Telegraph, 27 July 1898: 3.

LODGING-SLUM:
Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 2 March 1833: 8; John Rose per Moffatt CON31/1/15; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 30 January 2018), April 1833, trial of JOHN ROSE (t18330411-140); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 30 January 2018), April 1833, trial of JOHN ROSE (t18330411-156).

LOOK AT A PLACE:
Minchin, Bob, The First; the Worst? Michael Howe and associated bushrangers in Van Diemen’s Land, TADPAC Print, Glenorchy, 2001; Craig, Clifford, ed., Michael Howe, The Last and Worst of the Bushrangers of Van Diemen’s Land, Platypus Publications, Hobart, 1966.

LOUR:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 02 March 2018), February 1786, trial of GEORGE LYONS THOMAS HOPKINS (t17860222-48); Kentish Gazette, 14 April 1786: 3; Northampton Mercury, 4 March 1786: 3; www.nma.gov.au/collections/highlights/holey_dollar; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 10 July 1813: 1; Groome, Francis Hindes, In Gipsy Tents, William P. Nimmo & Co., Edinburgh, 1881: 251; Smart, B.C., & Crofton, H. T., The Dialect of the English Gypsies, Asher and Co., London, 1875: 105; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

LUMBER:
Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 27 February 1833: 4.

LUSH:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 15 March 1827: 3; The Sydney Herald, 1832: 3; Alcohol in Australia: Issues and Strategies, a Background Paper to the National Alcohol Strategy: A Plan for Action 2001 to 2003/04, Canberra, 2001: 1; Ross, James, A Statistical View of Van Diemen’s Land: Comprising Its Geography, Geology…, 1832: 132-133; Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania, 6 April 1853: 3; William Butler Wright per Plymouth CON33/1/111; Barnard, Simon, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014: 29; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

LUSH-CRIB, or LUSH-KEN:
Colonial Times, 5 May 1835: 8, Edward Roberts per Katherine Stewart Forbes CON31/1/37; Colonial Times, 6 August 1839: 6; William Bray per Lady Raffles CON33/1/6; Hobarton Guardian, 12 January 1850: 3.

LUSH, or LUSHY:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 16 April 1835: 2.

LUSHY-COVE:
Esther Holmes per Midas CON40/1/5; CPN32/1/3.

MACE:
The Whole Art of Thieving and Defrauding Discovered: Being a Caution to all House-Keepers, Shop-Keepers, Salesmen, and Others, to Guard Against Robbers of Both Sexes, and The Best Methods to Prevent Their Villainies. To Which is Added, an Explanation of Most of the Cant Terms in the Thieving Language. London, 1786: 41; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 18 February 2018), February 1776, trial of GEORGE LEWIS (t17760221-1); Barnard, Simon, Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016: 54.

MACE-GLOAK:
Stephen Gibbs per Admiral Gambier CON13/1/2; Colonial Times, 27 November 1832: 3; The Tasmanian, 30 November 1832: 6; The Colonist and Van Diemen’s Land Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser, 7 December 1832: 3; George Holmes per Phoenix CON31/1/19.

MAG:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 31 January 2018), September 1831, trial of DANIEL FIELD MARY MEEKING; Hotten, John Camden, The Slang Dictionary or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and ‘Fast’ Expressions of High and Low Society…’, Author, London, 1869.

MANCHESTER:
Colonial Times, 9 May 1837: 7; Janet McDonald per Hydery CON40/1/3.

MANG:
Haggart, David, The Life of David Haggart … Written by Himself, James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1821: 26; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 June 2018), January 1849, trial of WILLIAM HENRY JONES (t18490129-490); Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

MAULEY:
Leamington Spa Courier, 26 May 1832: 4; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 31 January 2018), May 1832, trial of THOMAS GASCOYNE JOHN JONES JOHN HUTCHINS (t18320517-161).

MAX:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 19 June 1858: 3.

MILESTONE:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 26 Jun 1803: 4 & 18 December 1803: 4.

MILL:
The Sydney Herald, 9 May 1831: 3; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 17 July 1803: 4; 23 September 1804: 3.

MILL A GLAZE:
Melbourne Times, 25 March 1843: 3.

MILL-DOLL:
Hitchcock, Tim, Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London, A&C Black, London & New York, 2004, 164, 167; Llive, Jacob, Reasons Offered for the Reformation of the House of Correction in Clerkenwell…, J.Scott, London, 1757.

MILLING-COVE:
The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, 4 October 1817: 1 & 1 November 1817: 2; William Daniels per Indefatigable CON31/1/9; CON35/1/1.

MITTS:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 June 2018), September 1803, trial of JOHN WESTBROOK DANIEL MURPHY (t18030914-74).

MITTENS:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 4 November 1854: 2.

MIZZLE:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 1 January 1835: 2; The Theatrical Album, Or, Comedian at Home: Being an Excellent Collection of Recitations, Comic Tales, New Songs, &c … , Duncombe, 1821; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

MOLLISHER:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 27 February 2018), September 1765, trial of Edward Jones , otherwise Williams (t17650918-60); Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, Vol 1, Cosmo Classics, New York, 2009: 425; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Howson, Gerald, Thief-Taker General: Jonathan Wild and the Emergence of Crime and Corruption As a Way of Life in Eighteenth-Century England, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1970: 167; Schaffer, Irene, A Most Remarkable Woman: Mary Bowater, Schaffer, Rosetta, 2005; Holman, James, Travels in China, New Zealand, New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land, Cape Horn, Etc., Etc., George Routledge, London, 1840: 417; Examiner, 9 February 1903: 7.

MONKEY:
The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 January 1845: 2 & 10 February 1835: 1; John Adams per Louisa CON39/1/2; William Smith per Louisa CON39/1/2.

MONKERY:
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 21 January 1864: 2 & 1 October 1867: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

MONTRA:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 16 April 2018), September 1794, trial of LOUISA LESAGE (t17940917-75); Walsh, G.P., Australian Dictionary of Biography, Suffolk, Gabriel Louis Marie Huon de Kerilleau.

MORNING-SNEAK:
Morning Advertiser, 19 November 1825: 3; Sheffield Independent, 26 November 1825: 4; Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier, 24 November 1825: 4.

MOTT:
Leppard-Quinn, Christine, The Unfortunates: prostitutes transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1822–1843. PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania. 2013: 307; Elizabeth Carlisle per Borneo CON40/1/1; RGD36/1/2 no 3013; Tyne Mercury; Northumberland and Durham and Cumberland Gazette, 21 August 1827: 3; West, John, The History of Tasmania, Angus and Robertson, London, 1981: 211; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

MOUNT; MOUNTER:
Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 15 June 1829: 6; Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal, 15 June 1819: 3. Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Parker, George, Life’s Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life, Author, London: 169; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 16 April 2018), May 1819, trial of WILLIAM MILLNER (t18190526-107).

MOUTH:
Eastern Districts Chronicle, 10 November 1877: 2; Convict Biographies, Fremantle Prison, Department of Treasury and Finance, Fremantle, 2009: 7.

MOVE:
The Tasmanian, 5 October 1832: 5; Thomas Bowler per Red Rover CON37/1/4; Mary Ann Barnard per Atwick CON52/1/2; The Cornwall Chronicle, 13 October 1847: 3.

MUG:
The Sydney Herald, 24 May 1832: 3; State Archives NSW

MURPHY’S COUNTENANCE:
NSWSA: 4/4423; Reel 601; Class: HO 10; Piece: 8; The Sydney Herald, 26 December 1831: 4; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

NAIL:
Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 23 May 1840: 3; The Sydney Herald, 25 May 1840: 7; Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 24 June 1840: 2; State Archives NSW; Roll: 854; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4015]; Microfiche: 676.

NANCY:
Isaac Bailey per Minerva CON31/1/3.

NAP the BIB:
Select Committee on Transportation, ‘Report from the Select Committee on Transportation…’, 1837, House of Commons, London, 1838; Gates, William, Recollections of Life in Van Diemen’s Land, D.S. Crandall, Lockport, 1850: 148.

NASH:
The Sydney Monitor, 29 July 1835: 2; The Sydney Herald, 6 Aug 1835: 4; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

NE-DASH:
Moncrief, William Thomas, Van Diemen’s Land, or, Tasmania in 1818 : a drama in four acts, John Dicks, London, c. 1852; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

NEEDLE:
Frederick Mortlock, John, Experiences of a Convict, Sydney University Press, London, 1965: 61.

NEEDY-MIZZLER:
State Archives NSW; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 29 August 1846: 2; The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 August 1846: 2 & 21 September: 2.

NIB:
Bonwick, James, The Bushrangers: Illustrating the Early Days of Van Diemen’s Land, George Robinson, Melbourne, 1856: 87; Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 27 January 1826: 3.

NIBB’D:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 11 July 2018), December 1817, trial of JAMES SUMMERS JOHN KNIGHT (t18171203-20); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 11 July 2018), January 1816, trial of JOHN M’CUE (t18160110-112); Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer 25 October 1851: 1; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 June 2018), October 1843, trial of JOHN KENNEDY TIMOTHY BRYAN (t18431023-3060); The Digital Panopticon Timothy Bryan b. 1823, Life Archive ID obpdef2-3060-18431023 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef2-3060-18431023 consulted 7th June 2018).

NIBBLE; NIBBLER:
Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser , 9 February 1850: 17; Evening Mail, 6 February 1850: 3; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 June 2018), February 1850, trial of MARK BENJAMIN (t18500204-457).

NIX, or NIX MY DOLL:
Morning Post, 29 October 1839: 3; Buckley, Matthew, Sensations of Celebrity: Jack Sheppard and the Mass Audience, Victorian Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3, 2002: 423–463; Liverpool Mail, 7 July 1840: 2.

NOB IT:
The Tasmanian, 5 October 1832: 5.

NOB-PITCHERS:
Rockhampton Bulletin, 29 Jul 1874: 3; The Sydney Herald, 22 April 1833: 2; The Star, 4 December 1857: 2.

NOSE:
Cunningham, Peter, Two Years in New South Wales: A Series of Letters, Comprising Sketches…, Henry Colburn, London, V.2. 1828: 228-229; The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, 12 February 1820: 1; Mortlock, John, Frederick, Experiences of a Convict, Sydney University Press, London, 1965. First printed in 1864: 78; Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 12 October 1839: 3.

NULLING-COVE:
London Daily News, 17 October 1846; Geelong Advertiser, 28 March 1867; Illawarra Mercury 26 March 1867; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

NUT:
Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser, 12 May 1896: 2; The Age, 3 July 1896: 6.

NUTS UPON IT:
Bunbury Herald, 15 April 1899: 3.

NUTS UPON YOURSELF:
The Sydney Herald, 21 April 1836: 2; Atkinson, Alan, The Europeans in Australia: Volume Two: Democracy, Oxford University Press, Sydney, 2016; Laugesen, Amanda, Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2002: 32.

OFFICE:
Harris, Alexander, Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years’ Labour in the Australian Backwoods, C. Cox, London, 1847: 92.

OLD LAG:
Colonial Times, 16 January 1838: 7; The Hobart Town Courier, 23 November 1838: 4; Colonial Times, 15 January 1839: 7; Henry James Witton per Circassian CON31/1/46.

OLIVER; OLIVER IS IN TOWN:
The Newcastle Chronicle, 13 August 1872: 4; Mount Alexander Mail, 11 May 1869: 3; Launceston Examiner, 22 May 1869: 2.

OLIVER’S UP:
Broxup, John. The Life of John Broxup: late convict of Van Diemen’s Land, Sullivan’s Cove, Hobart, 1973.

OLIVER WHIDDLES:
Hugh Smith per Moffatt CON18/1/15; Barnard, Simon, Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016.

ONE UPON YOUR TAW:
Cheltenham Chronicle, 14 June 1827: 2; Bristol Mirror, 8 September 1827: 2; Williams, Samuel, The Boy’s Treasury of Sports, Pastimes, and Recreations, D. Bogue, London, 1844: 28.

ONION:
Sussex Advertiser, 30 June 1834: 4.

ORDER-RACKET:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 27 May 1815: 2; Hereford Journal, 21 August 1811: 3; Rienits, Rex, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Joseph Lycett; Staffordshire Advertiser, 24 November 1827: 4; Birmingham Journal, 16 February 1828: 3.

OUT-AND-OUT:
Colonial Times, 7 December 1847: 3; Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 7 March 1838: 3; Joseph Lawrence per Moffatt CON31/1/25; CON37/1/4; Colonial Times, 7 December 1847: 3.

OUT-AND-OUTER:
The Hobart Town Courier, 22 December 1827: 4.

OUT OF THE WAY:
1828 Census: Householders’ returns [Population and Statistics, Musters and Census Records, Census, Colonial Secretary] . Series 1273, Reels 2551-2552, 2506-2507; The Australian, 20 October 1825: 1; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 11 August 1828: 2. Historical Records of Australia, Ser. 1, Vol. XIV, March, 1828-May, 1829, Library of committee of the commonwealth parliament, 1922.

OUT OF TWIG:
The Sydney Herald, 23 July 1832: 2.

PALL:
Port Phillip Gazette and Settler’s Journal, 20 September 1848: 2; The Argus, 22 September 1848: 2; The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser, 20 September 1848: 2.

PALM:
London Evening Standard, 29 August 1843: 4; London Evening Standard, 11 September 1843: 4; Morning Advertiser, 25 September 1843: 4.

PALMING-RACKET:
The Sydney Herald, 22 November 1832: 2; Worcestershire Chronicle, 8 February 1843: 4; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

PANNY:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 02 March 2018), February 1786, trial of GEORGE LYONS THOMAS HOPKINS (t17860222-48); Kentish Gazette, 14 April 1786: 3; Northampton Mercury, 4 March 1786: 3.

PANNUM:
Richard Bruin per Coromandel CON31/1/1; Nepean Times, 27 August 1887: 7.

PATTER:
The Melbourne Daily News, 22 November 1848: 2; The Argus, 22 December 1848: 2.

PATTER’D:
London Courier and Evening Gazette, 9 May 1833: 4.

PEAR-MAKING:
Barnard, Simon, Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016: 54-55; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

PENSIONER:
Adelaide Times, 6 May: 3 & 24 May: 3; Adelaide Observer, 21 June 1856:1.

PETER:
South Australian Register, 9, 13, 26 October 1885.

PETER-HUNTING:
Cunningham, Peter, Two Years in New South Wales: A Series of Letters, Comprising Sketches…, Henry Colburn, London, V.2. 1828: 231; Heard, Dora, ed., The Journal of Charles O’Hara Booth, Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement, THRA, Hobart, 1981: 166.

PETER-HUNTING-JEMMY:
Morning Post, 13 November 1822: 2; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 02 March 2018), December 1822, trial of JOHN SOUTHTON (t18221204-35).

PICK-UP:
Examiner 12 December 1860: 3; Freeman’s Journal, 22 December 1860: 3.

PIGS, or GRUNTERS:
Newman, Gerald, Brown, Leslie, Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopaedia, Garland Publishing, New York & London, 1997: 69-70; London Evening Standard, 21 January 1828: 4; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

PINS:
The Sydney Herald, 2 May 1833: 2.

PINCH:
The Star, 16 May 1863: 2 ; 19 May: 4; 21 May: 4; 8 June: 2.

PINCH-GLOAK:
Colonial Times, 13 August 1839: 7; The Tasmanian, 13 September 1839: 6.; John Hansell per Sir Charles Forbes CON31/1/19.

PIPES:
Port Phillip Gazette and Settler’s Journal, 19 August 1846: 2.

PIT:
Chesterton, George Laval, Revelations of Prison Life: With an Enquiry Into Prison Discipline and Secondary Punishments, Vol. 2., London, 1856: 138; Birmingham Journal, 4 May 1839: 7; Manchester Times, 30 October 1847: 7.

PIT-MAN:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Ellen O’Neill per Emma Eugenia CON41/1/29; John O’Neill per London, CON33/1/101; Westmorland Gazette, 2 March 1850: 4; Preston Chronicle, 7 September 1850: 3.

PITCHER:
Globe, 28 August 1843: 4; The Era, 3 September 1843: 4; Barnard, Simon, Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016: 91; Pettifer, Ernest, Punishments of Former Days, Waterside Press, London, 1992: 103; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

PLANT:
Colonial Times, 18 April 1843: 3 & 25 April: 2.

PLAY A-CROSS:
South Australian Register, 16 August 1881: 6; Port Augusta Dispatch and Flinders’ Advertiser, 26 August 1881: 5.

PLUMMY:
The West Australian, 31 December 1888: 3.

POGUE:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 June 2018), January 1879, trial of CORNELIUS SULLIVAN (20) (t18790113-162); ‘Ian Brand’s Macquarie Harbour Historical Research’, Department of Primary Industry and Water, http://library.dpipwe.tas.gov.au

POST, or POST THE PONEY:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 18 August 1849: 2 & 13 October 1849: 2. Pony derives from the Latin Legem Pone, meaning ‘payment of money, cash down’. See: Anglican prayer-book of the psalm appointed for Matins on the 25th of the month; it was consequently associated especially with March 25, the new year of the old calendar and a quarter day, when payments and debts came due and money changed hands generally. www.etymonline.com. Thanks to Rob Waterhouse.

POUNDABLE:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 11 August 1805: 2.

POUND IT:
The Sydney Herald, 18 August 1834: 4: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 28 June 1834: 2 & 2 July 1835: 4.

PRAD:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 June 2018), January 1825, trial of WILLIAM MACRAE (t18250113-179); Knowles, Julian B., The Abolition of the Death Penalty in the United Kingdom How it Happened and Why it Still Matters, The Death Penalty Project, London, 2015: 12; The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Reference Number: ADM 101/52/8.

PRADBACK:
The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle, 22 November 1865: 2; Nan Phillips, ‘Clarke, Thomas (1840–1867)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clarke-thomas-3226/text4861, published first in hardcopy 1969, accessed online 6 March 2018; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823.

PRIG:
Colonial Times, 19 May 1846: 3; John Finlaytor per Aurora CON31/1/14; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

PRIME:
The Cornwall Chronicle, 28 November 1840: 2.

PULL:
Bell’s New Weekly Messenger, 24 June 1838: 7; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 06 March 2018), June 1838, trial of ELIZABETH MANNING CAROLINE ANN LUCAS FREDERICK JOHN SPRING (t18380618-1459); Caroline Ann Lucas per Majestic CON40/1/6.

PULL, or PULL UP; PULLED, PULLED UP, or IN PULL:
Davey, Richard, ed., The Travails of Jimmy Porter: A Memoir 1802-1842, Round Earth Company, Hobart, 2003: 21-23.

PUSH:
First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary Force in the Counties of England and Wales, Charles Knight & Co., London, 1839: 400; Leeds Intelligencer, 15 January 1848: 5; The Sydney Monitor, 11 September 1830: 3.

PUT UP:
Bell’s New Weekly Messenger, 9 November 1834: 11; Morning Advertiser, 18 June 1835: 1; Morning Advertiser, 26 August 1834: 3.

PUT UP AFFAIR; PUTTER UP:
Sydney Chronicle, 15 July 1846: 2; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 8 August 1846: 3.

PUZZLING-STICKS:
Laugensen, Amanda, Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia, Oxford University Press, 2002: 200; Nepean Times, 27 August 1887: 7; Barnard, Simon, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014: 56.

QUEER; QUEER, or QUEER-BIT:
Riverina Recorder, 3 May 1899: 2; The Australian Star, 6 May 1899: 6.

QUEER SCREENS:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 March 2018), October 1816, trial of ANN WOODMAN (t18161030-3); Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware’s Whitehaven Advertiser, 11 March 1817: 4; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823; Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 20 July 1817: 6.

QUEER-BAIL:
Evening Mail, 17 June 1829: 1; Newcastle Courant, 2 February 1828: 2; Morning Post, 25 January 1828: 3.

QUID:
Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823; Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 28 August 1809: 2; Hampshire Chronicle – Monday, 4 September 1809: 3; Perthshire Courier, 31 August 1809: 2-3.

QUOD:
The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 12 August 1840: 2.

QUOD-COVE:
Lennox, Geoff, Richmond Gaol: and Richmond Police District, Dormaslen Publications, Rosetta, 1993:17; https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Speed-926; CSO 24/87/1812:101-229. Report on the Gaols. Prepared by J. Burnett, Sheriff’s Office, Hobart Town, 1849.

RACKET:
Petrow, Stefan, ‘Drawing lots: murder at the Port Arthur penal settlement in 1835’,Papers and Proceedings THRA, v.45, no.3, 1998:186-188; The Tasmanian, 6 November 1835: 7; John Bennett per Arab CON32/1/1.

RAG:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 10 May 1851: 3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 May 1851: 3.

RAG-GORGY:
The Australian, 27 May 1841: 3; Boxall, George E., History of the Australian Bushrangers, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1908: x; The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 9 July 1841: 3; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 28 November 1846: 1.

RAMP:
John Bull, 29 August 1825: 3. George Metham per Woodman CON31/1/29; Hobart Town Gazette, 29 July 1826: 3; Hobart Town Gazette, 2 September 1826: 2.

RANK:
Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania, 13 August 1853: 3.

RATTLER:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 06 March 2018), October 1821, trial of SAMUEL HAYWARD HENRY JUDD (t18211024-7); Glasgow Herald, 3 December 1821: 1; Inverness Courier, 6 December 1821: 2.

READER:
Jones, George Henry, Account of the Murder of the Late Mr. William Weare, J. Nichols & Son, London, 1824.

REGULARS:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 25 September 1847: 3; The Sentinel, 23 September 1847: 2.

REIGN:
Morning Post, 1 January 1818: 4; Saunders’s News-Letter, 8 January 1818: 2; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 17 June 2018), January 1818, trial of MICHAEL FOX (t18180114-160).

RESURRECTION-COVE:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Leeds Intelligencer 8 December 1831; Newgate Calendar VOL5 1831, James May per Katherine Stewart Forbes CON18/1/10 & CON31/1/30; Johnson, Ben, Digging in the Dark: A History of the Yorkshire Resurrectionists, Pen and Sword, South Yorkshire, 2017: 109.

RIBBAND:
Mortlock, John, Frederick, Experiences of a Convict, Sydney University Press, London, 1965. First printed in 1864: 90.

RIDGE:
Hereford Times, 14 August 1841: 3.

RINGING, or RINGING-IN:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 18 June 2018), April 1817, trial of MICHAEL DUFFEY JOSEPH CARTER (t18170416-123); The Digital Panopticon Michael Duffey b. 1792, Life Archive ID obpt18170416-123-defend954 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18170416-123-defend954 consulted 18th June 2018); The Sydney Morning, 18 December 1845: 2; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 20 December 1845: 2; The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 February 1846: 2; State Archives NSW; Roll: 854.

ROCK’D:
Launceston Examiner, 5 July 1856: 4; Brand, Ian, Penal Peninsula. Port Arthur and its outstations 1827-1898, Regal Press, Launceston, 1998: 172; Minchin, Bob, Bolters for the Bush, Author, Hobart, 1996: 60-67; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823.

ROLLERS:
Hobart Town Gazette, 17 December 1825: 3; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 8 September 1825:1; Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 2 November 1828: 1; Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 23 October 1828: 96.

ROMANY:
Perthshire Courier, 15 January 1818: 3-4.

ROOK:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 18 June 2018), May 1801, trial of RICHARD WRIGHT JOHN SMITH , alias PARKER THOMAS JOHNSTONE (t18010520-52); The Digital Panopticon Richard Wright b. 1778, Life Archive ID obpt18010520-52-defend404 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18010520-52-defend404 consulted 18th June 2018); The Digital Panopticon John Smith b. 1776, Life Archive ID obpt18010520-52-defend405 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18010520-52-defend405 consulted 18th June 2018); The Digital Panopticon Thomas Jackson b. 1773, Life Archive ID obpt18010520-52-defend408 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18010520-52-defend408 consulted 18th June 2018).

ROUGH-FAM, or ROUGH-FAMMY:
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 9 September 1818: 8-9; Hirst, Warwick, The Man Who Stole The Cyprus, Rosenberg, Australia, 2008: 36.

ROW IN THE BOAT:
Bury and Norwich Post, 30 May 1792: 1; Kentish Gazette, 1 June 1792: 4; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 14 March 2018), May 1792, trial of WILLIAM RANDALL JAMES LEMAN BAKER MARY, wife of Paul Randall MARY RANDALL (t17920523-78); The Digital Panopticon Mary Paul Randall , Life Archive ID obpt17920523-78-defend715 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt17920523-78-defend715 consulted 14th March 2018).

RUFFLES:
The Australian, 31 October 1840: 3; The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 11 January 1841: 2.

RUGGINS’S:
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 22 June 1875: 2; The Sydney Morning Herald 11 June 1875: 9.

RUM:
The Sydney Herald, 19 March 1832: 4.

RUMBLE-TUMBLE:
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 28 March 1829: 3; The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Medical Journals; Reference Number: ADM 101/69/1.

RUMP’D:
The Moreton Bay Courier, 8 March 1860: 4; Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, Minutes of Proceedings, 1788 to 1794, SRNSW, 5/1147A; Hughes, Robert, The Fatal Shore, Vintage Books, London, 2003: 115; Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, ed.,‘Memoranda by Convict Davis Servant to Mr Foster, Suprintt of Convicts, Norfolk Island – 1843 – Relating principally to Macquarie Harbour’ The International Centre for Convict Studies.

RUMPUS:
Lott, Eric, Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, Oxford University Press, 2013; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 29 January 1839: 2; The Australian, 29 January 1839: 2; Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 30 January 1839: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Morning Post, 18 November 1829: 3.

RUSH:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 14 April 1825: 3.

RUSSIAN COFFEE-HOUSE:
Larwood, Jacob & Hotten, John Camden, The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Chatto and Windus, London, 1867: 152; Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 9 January 1822: 4; Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 6 March 1817: 3; Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 24 April 1808: 9.

SACK:
The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser, 5 April 1887: 4; The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser, 6 May 1887: 4.

SALT-BOXES:
Dickens, Charles, Cruickshank, George, Sketches by ‘Boz’, John Macrone, London, 1836; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 20 April 2018), September 1788, trial of MICHAEL CONNER (t17880910-23); The Digital Panopticon Michael Conner b. 1748, Life Archive ID obpt17880910-23-defend235 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt17880910-23-defend235 consulted 20th April 2018).

SALT-BOX-CLY:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 20 April 2018), April 1843, trial of JOHN ASBURY ISAAC GREENSLADE (t18430403-1175). Isaac Greenslade per Anson CON33/1/49.

SAND:
Pybus, Cassandra, Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia’s First Black Settlers, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006: 149; Park, Margaret, Australian Dictionary of Biography, William (Billy) Blue.

SAWNEY:
Morning Chronicle, 30 March 1839: 40; Mary Moriarty per Phoebe CON41/1/5; Steele, Jody, Site Report Second Hospital Site Excavation, Port Arthur Historic Site, Port Arthur, 2005; Brand, Penal Peninsula. Port Arthur and its outstations 1827-1898; The Sydney Monitor, 19 Dec 1835: 3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

SCAMP; SCAMP, or SCAMPSMAN:
Sussex Advertiser, 18 April 1785: 1; Ipswich Journal, 18 January 1783: 2; Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 6 April 1785: 97-99; Cobley, John, ed., The Crimes of he First Fleet Convicts, Angus and Robertson, 1989: 222-223; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

SCHOOL:
Elijah Molyneux per York CON31/1/30; CON32/1/4; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 16 July 1859: 3.

SCOT; SCOTTISH:
Henderson, John, Observations on the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta,1832: 9; Wilkie, Benjamin, ‘Scottish convicts in Australia’, History Scotland, Vol. 14, No. 6, 2014: 23; TNA; Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Medical Journals; Reference Number: ADM 101/54/6A; The Digital Panopticon John Julius Mcdonald b. 1772, Life Archive ID fasai45017 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=fasai45017 consulted 7th March 2018).

SCOUT; SCOUT-KEN:
Morning Post, 4 February 1822: 3; Edward Rainsford per John Barry CON 31/1/37; The Courier, 26 December 1854: 2.

SCRAG’D; SCRAGGING-POST:
Globe, 25 December 1849: 4;London Daily News, 27 December 1849: 5; Gloucestershire Archives; Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; Reference: Q/Gc/6/2; Alfred Dancy per Equestrain CON33/1/111; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

SCREEN:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 27 May 2018), January 1814, trial of WILLIAM ATKINSON MARY ATKINSON (t18140112-64); The Digital Panopticon William Atkinson b. 1780, Life Archive ID obpt18140112-64-defend588 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18140112-64-defend588 consulted 27th May 2018); Thomas Bock per Asia CON31/1/1; Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen’s Land Advertiser, 16 April 1824: 2; 10 Dec 1824: 2; 1 April 1825.1.

SCREEVE:
http://gutenberg.net.au Historical Records of Australia. Vol. II: 128; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

SCREW:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 03 July 2018), December 1817, trial of JAMES SUMMERS JOHN KNIGHT (t18171203-20); The Digital Panopticon James Summers b. 1800, Life Archive ID obpt18171203-20-defend208 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18171203-20-defend208 consulted 3rd July 2018); The Digital Panopticon John Knight b. 1800, Life Archive ID obpt18171203-20-defend210 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18171203-20-defend210 consulted 3rd July 2018).

SCREWSMAN:
The Ballarat Star, 5 April 1866: 4; Bendigo Advertiser, 10 April 1866: 2.

SCURF’D:
Globe, 7 October 1805: 4; Bury and Norwich Post, 23 October 1805: 4.

SEEDY:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 10 September 1853: 2; Empire, 29 September 1853: 3.

SELL:
The Mercury, 7 Sep 1860: 3; Kalof, Linda, Looking at Animals in Human History, Reaktion Books, London, 2007: 138.

SERVE:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 19 October 1839: 2; The Australian, 19 October 1839: 2; The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 21 October 1839: 2.

SHAKE:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 6 March 1847: 2.

SHALLOW:
Tardiff, Phillip, Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1990: 1660.

SHAN:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 23 April 2018), September 1828, trial of ROBERT WHITE (t18280911-216); Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 23 August 1828: 4; The Digital Panopticon Robert White b. 1799, Life Archive ID obpt18280911-216-defend1236 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18280911-216-defend1236 consulted 23rd April 2018).

SHARP:
Gippsland Guardian, 24 March 1865: 2; The Australasian, 6 May 1865: 12; The Argus, 23 March 1865: 5.

SHARPING:
The Argus, 21 September 1859: 6; The Age, 23 September 1859: 6; The Argus, 10 February 1860:1.

SHIFTER:
The Brisbane Courier, 2 May 1883: 6; The Cornwall Chronicle, 21 April 1847: 312; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 18 August 1835: 2; Colonial Times, 23 July 1839: 6; The Age, 2 September 1881: 2.

SHINER:
Flora McInnes per Duchess of Northumberland CON41/1/37; London Evening Standard, 11 September 1827; 3.

SHOVE-UP:
The Northern Miner, 17 January 1893: 3; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823; The North Queensland Register, 25 Jan 1893: 28.

SHUTTER-RACKET:
Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 23 April 2018), May 1839, trial of JAMES BRADY HENRY TYRRELL (t18390513-1500).

SINGLE-HANDED:
David Leyshon per Tortoise CON33/1/17; Australian Convict Sites, World Heritage Nomination, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra, 2008: 215.

SIR SYDNEY:
Wells, Thomas, Michael Howe: The Last and Worst of the Bushrangers of Van Diemen’s Land: A Facsimile Reproduction, Platypus Publications, Hobart, 1966: 33; Clarke, Marcus, Old Tales of a Young Country, Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, Melbourne, 1871: 57; The Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama, J. Francis, London, 1854, 680.

SKIN:
Derbyshire Courier, 6 November 1841: 2; Morning Advertiser, 23 April 1840: 4; Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 5 August 1838: 2; Caledonian Mercury, 13 August 1838: 4; Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 15 September 1838: 4; Gore’s Liverpool General Advertiser, 29 October 1840: 1; Liverpool Mercury, 16 April 1841: 3; Class: HO 27; Piece: 55; Page: 482; Class: HO 27; Piece: 64; Page: 93; Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

SLANG; SLANG WEIGHTS, or MEASURES; SLANGING-DUES:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 March 2018), February 1846, trial of JOHN WILLIAMS JAMES RYAN CATHARINE WOOD (t18460223-718); Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; The Sydney Herald, 20 May 1833: 2; The Sydney Monitor, 8 May 1833: 2; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 11 May 1833: 2; The Australian, 24 May 1833: 3; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 09 March 2018), September 1814, trial of GEORGE GILKES JOHN RADLEY (t18140914-49); The Digital Panopticon George Gilkes b. 1792, Life Archive ID obpt18140914-49-defend483 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18140914-49-defend483 consulted 9th March 2018); Stops, Fredrick, ed., Statutes of Tasmania: From 7th George 4th (1826) to 64th Victoria (1901), Vol., John Vail, Hobart, 1904: 2640.

SLANG’D:
Nepean Times, 27 August 1887: 7; Jeffrey, Mark, A Burglar’s Life. Or, the Stirring Adventures of the Great English Burglar, Mark Jeffrey… J. Walch & Sons, Hobart, 1920. First published in 1893: 65; George Wiggins per Eden CON18/7; Ross, Lynette, Death and Burial at Port Arthur, 1830-1877, honours thesis, University of Tasmania, 2005: 51.

SLANGS:
Hall, Edward Smith, Reply in Refutation of the Pamphlets of Lieut.-Gen. R. Darling … and Maj.-Gen. H.C. Darling … : addressed … to J. Hume, Esq. M.P. & Viscount Goderich …, Benjamin Franklin, London. 1832; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Darling, Sir Ralph.

SLAVEY:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 5 June 1852: 3; Empire, 1 June 1852: 3.

SLIP:
Bury and Norwich Post, 29 October 1823: 4; Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 19 June 1799: 49-50; SANSW; Series: NRS 1151; Item: [4/3999]; Microfiche: 625.

SLOP:
London Evening Standard, 11 September 1827: 3.

SLOP-FEEDER:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 09 March 2018), September 1826, trial of JOHN WILLIAMS THOMAS JONES (t18260914-457).

SLOUR; SLOUR’D, or SLOUR’D UP:
The Age,10 January 1891:10; 15 January: 7; Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinker’s jargon and other irregular phraseology, Ballantyne Press, London, 1889: 259.

SLUM:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 3 March 1825: 3; Hughes, Robert, The Fatal Shore, Vintage Books, London, 2003: 225; The Australian, 12 December 1842: 3; Frost, Lucy, Footsteps and Voices: A Historical Look into the Cascades Female Factory, Female Factory Historic Site, Hobart, 2004: 14; Clark, Julia, ed., The Career of William Thompson, Convict, Port Arthur Historic Sites, Port Arthur, 2009: 161; The Australian, 3 February 1834: 3; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 18 February 1834: 2.

SLY:
L. F., The History of Samuel Terry, in Botany Bay…, Pattie, London, 1838; Rubinstein, William, The All-time Australian 200 Rich List, Allen & Unwin, 2004; Davey, Richard, ed., The Travails of Jimmy Porter: A Memoir 1802-1842, Round Earth Company, Hobart, 2003: 40; Chappel, W., The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time… Chapel and Co., London, Vol 2., 1871: 730; Davey, Richard, ed., The Travails of Jimmy Porter: A Memoir 1802-1842, Round Earth Company, Hobart, 2003: 40.

SMASHER; SMASHING:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 21 June 2018), May 1837, trial of THOMAS OLIVER JAMES BIRCH HARRIET WOOD (t18370508-1345); Bell’s New Weekly Messenger, 30 April 1837: 12 & 7 May 1837: 7; Morning Post, 2 May 1837: 4.

SMISH:
Lempriere, Thomas, The Penal Settlements of Early Van Diemen’s Land, Royal Society of Tasmania, Hobart, 1954: 48; Burn, David, An Excursion to Port Arthur in 1842, H.A. Evans & Son, Melbourne, 1972: 40; Martin Cash, the Bushranger of Van Diemen’s Land in 1843-4, J. Walch & Sons, Hobart, 1911:123; Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, Closing Hell’s Gates: The Death of a Convict Station, Allen and Unwin, New South Wales, 2008: 62, 183.

SMUT:
Morning Chronicle, 12 September 1827: 4; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 13 March 2018), May 1828, trial of MATTHEW BERRY (t18280529-69); Matthew Berry per Roslyn Castle CON31/1/1.

SNEAK:
The Digital Panopticon George Gordon b. 1816, Life Archive ID obpt18331017-116-defend1116 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18331017-116-defend1116 consulted 13th March 2018); The Digital Panopticon Joseph Pearce b. 1816, Life Archive ID obpt18331017-116-defend1114

SNEAKSMAN:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 22 March 1851: 2; The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 1851: 2.

SNEEZER, or SNEEZING-COFER:
Bell’s New Weekly Messenger, 9 March 1851: 6; Clarke, Marcus, Old Tales of a Young Country, Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, Melbourne, 1871: 57.

SNITCH:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 13 March 2018), February 1797, trial of ANN CROCKER SARAH CRUTCHLEY (t17970215-58); The Digital Panopticon Ann Crocker b. 1766, Life Archive ID obpt17970215-58-defend520 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt17970215-58-defend520 consulted 23rd April 2018); Partridge, Eric, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang, Routledge, 2006.

SNIPES:
Reading Mercury, 23 May 1831: 2; Morning Advertiser , 26 May 1831: 3; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 13 March 2018), April 1831, trial of JOHN BROACH (t18310407-12).

SNOW:
State Archives NSW; Roll: 854; The Star, 17 April 1846: 1; The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 1846: 2 & 11 May 1846: 2.

SNOOZE:
The Sydney Herald, 10 September 1832: 2.

SNUFFING:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 13 March 2018), October 1834, trial of JOHN JONES (t18341016-39).

SOUND:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 9 August 1826: 3.

SPANGLE:
The Digital Panopticon Robert Butt b. 1777, Life Archive ID obpt18101031-2-defend78 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18101031-2-defend78 consulted 14th March 2018); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 13 March 2018), October 1810, trial of JOSEPH COPE (t18101031-6); Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015.

SPANK:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 14 March 2018), May 1765, trial of Thomas Wilcox , otherwise Cox John Newgent (t17650522-33); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 24 April 2018), May 1765 (s17650522-1); Archbold, John Frederick, Archbold’s Snowden’s Magistrates Assistant, and Police Officers and Constables Guide, Shaw & Sons, London, 1859: 92.

SPEAK; SPEAK TO:
The Digital Panopticon Robert Daniels , Life Archive ID obpt17890909-29-defend270 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt17890909-29-defend270 consulted 24th April 2018); Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 24 April 2018), September 1789, trial of ROBERT DANIELS (t17890909-29).

SPELL:
Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; Vivienne Parsons, ‘Sidaway, Robert (1758–1809)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sidaway-robert-2660/text3681, published first in hardcopy 1967, accessed online 14 March 2018, Jordan, Robert, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia, 1788-1840, Currency House, New South Wales, 2002.

SPICE:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 25 June 2018), January 1785, trial of EDWARD PAYNE MAY COOK ARTHUR JAMESON ROBERT BROWN (t17850112-12); Hereford Journal, 12 July 1787: 1.

SPICE GLOAK:
Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 30 December 1825: 3; Minchin, Bob, Banditti, Beware! Bushranging with Brady in Van Diemen’s Land, TADPAC, Glenorchy, 2000: 79; 83.

SPLIT:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 25 June 2018), January 1833, trial of EDMUND MILLER HENRY HUTCHINSON (t18330103-4); The Digital Panopticon Henry Hutchinson b. 1813, Life Archive ID obpt18330103-4-defend141 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18330103-4-defend141 consulted 25th June 2018); The Digital Panopticon Edmund Miller b. 1805, Life Archive ID obpt18330103-4-defend139 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18330103-4-defend139 consulted 25th June 2018).

SPOIL IT:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 25 June 2018), June 1824, trial of SAMUEL TAYLOR (t18240603-187); John Bull, 7 June 1824: 8; England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 Class: HO 27; Piece: 27: 56.

SPOKE TO:
Select Trials, for Murders: Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, and Other Offences. At the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. … , Gilliver and Huggonson, London, 1742: 55.

SPOONY:
The Age, 18 September 1857: 6; The Argus, 19 September 1857: 6.

SPOUT:
Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court, 10 June 1844: 149; Martha Mclaren per Tasmania, CON41/1/4.

SPREAD:
The Hobarton Mercury, 20 July 1855: 3; John Drew per Sir George Seymour CON37/1/8.

SQUARE:
William Burch per Rodney CON33/1/99; The Tasmanian Colonist, 3 October 1853: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

SQUARE-COVE. See: SQUARE:
The Star and Working Man’s Guardian, 5 July 1845: 2; Commercial Journal and General Advertiser, 2 July 1845: 3.

SQUARE-CRIB:
The Life, Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, Volume I, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014. First printed in 1883; Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, Pelham Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, Volume III, Henry Colburn, London, 1828: 93; 299.

SQUEEZE:
Castles, Alex, ‘The Vandemonian Spirit and the Law’ Papers and Proceedings THRA, v.38, no.3-4, 1991: 118; Bonwick, James, Curious Facts of Old Colonial Days, Sampson Low, Son & Marston, London, 1870: 280; Barnard, Simon, Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016: 106-107.

STAG:
Dublin Evening Mail, 17 July 1862: 3; The Age, 9 September 1862: 6; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823.

STAINES:
Morning Post, 5 December 1833: 3.

STAKE:
Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 27 January 1826: 3.

STALL:
Port Phillip Gazette, 11 December 1841: 3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

STALL OFF:
Peter Curtis per Lady Franklin CON33/1/55; The Cornwall Chronicle, 11 November 1848: 55; Jonathon Ives per Lord Melville CON31/1/23.

STALL UP:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 15 March 2018), February 1819, trial of EDWARD HAWKINS (t18190217-181); The Digital Panopticon Edward Hawkins b. 1799, Life Archive ID obpt18190217-181-defend1502 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18190217-181-defend1502 consulted 26th April 2018).

STAMPS:
Worcester Herald, 28 November 1835: 4 & 26 December 1835: 4 & 5 March 1836: 4; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X639]; Microfiche: 723.

STAR:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 26 April 2018), February 1809, trial of MICHAEL CONNELLY RICHARD EVANS CHARLES EVANS (t18090215-79).

STASH:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 27 April 2018), December 1821, trial of ABRAHAM MYERS ROBERT DAY (t18211205-91); The Digital Panopticon Abraham Myers b. 1800, Life Archive ID obpt18211205-91-defend1067 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18211205-91-defend1067 consulted 27th April 2018); The Digital Panopticon Robert Day b. 1797, Life Archive ID obpt18211205-91-defend1069 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18211205-91-defend1069 consulted 27th April 2018).

STAUNCH:
The Courier, 20 October 1843: 2; The Courier, 20 February 1847: 4; The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser, 12 March 1847: 2; The Courier, 7 April 1847: 2; Launceston Examiner, 6 February 1847: 7; TAHO NAME_INDEXES:1507918; William Francis per Eden CON32/1/14.

STEAMER:
Margaret Gordon per Henry CON40/1/3.

STEVEN:
The Telegraph, 10 February 1885: 5.

STICK:
Graeme L. Pretty, ‘Wakefield, Edward Gibbon (1796–1862)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wakefield-edward-gibbon-2763/text3921, published first in hardcopy 1967, accessed online 26 June 2018; Wakefield, Edward, A Letter from Sydney: The Principal Town of Australasia, Joseph Cross, London, 1829: 106-107; Wakefield, Edward, Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844, Volume I, John Murray, London, 1845: 330.

STICKS:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 5 May 1855: 3.

STING:
Jeffrey, Mark, A Burglar’s Life. Or, the Stirring Adventures of the Great English Burglar, Mark Jeffrey… J. Walch & Sons, Hobart, 1920. First published in 1893: 36-37.

STINK:
The Tasmanian, 27 July 1832: 6; The Hobart Town Courier, 27 July 1832: 4; Isaac Simpson per Commodore Hayes, CON31/1/38; Philip Thomas per Competitor, CON31/1/42.

STOOP; STOOPING-MATCH:
The Sydney Monitor, 23 November 1833: 2; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 28 November 1825: 2; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 28 June 1807:1.

STOW; STOW, STOW IT:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 27 April 2018), December 1792, trial of CHARLES JONES (t17921215-19); The Digital Panopticon Charles Jones b. 1780, Life Archive ID obpt17921215-19-defend290 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt17921215-19-defend290 consulted 19th March 2018).

STOW THAT:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 19 March 2018), August 1843, trial of CATHERINE LOWRIE (t18430821-2258).

STRETCH:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 19 March 2018), July 1872, trial of GEORGE HOLMES (20) GEORGE DENNIS (20), (t18720708-543).

STRUMMEL:
Fitzsymonds, Eustace., ed., A Looking-glass for Tasmania …1808-1845, Sullivan’s Cove, Adelaide, 1980: 104.

STUBBS:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 27 June 2018), July 1807, trial of SARAH SIMPSON (t18070701-15).

SUIT:
Francis McCallum per Minerva CON31/1/8; CON18/1/17.

SWAG:
Jeffrey, Mark, A Burglar’s Life. Or, the Stirring Adventures of the Great English Burglar, Mark Jeffrey… J. Walch & Sons, Hobart, 1920. First published in 1893: 9-10; Mortlock, John, Frederick, Experiences of a Convict, Sydney University Press, London, 1965. First printed in 1864.

SWELL:
Salisbury and Winchester Journal 9 November 1835; The Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen’s Land Gazette 24 January 1840: 4.

SWIMMER:
Globe, 7 October 1805: 4; Bury and Norwich Post, 23 October 1805: 4; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 15 September 1855: 2; Ellen Heath per St Vincent CON41/1/25; NAME_INDEXES:837780; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Mary Christopherson per Garland Grove CON40/1/2; RGD37/1/4 no 2295.

SWODDY, or SWOD-GILL:
Launceston Examiner, 30 August 1845: 4; The Cornwall Chronicle, 3 September 1845: 125. Petrow, Stefan, ‘Military Outrage’: The Riot of the 96th Regiment in Launceston in 1845, Papers and Proceedings, THRA v. 54. No 1, 2007; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

TANNER:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 26 Jun 1858: 3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 1858: 4; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

TAT:
McNab. K.K., Australian Dictionary of Biography, Alexander Green.

TATTS; TATT-BOX:
Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 23 April 1859: 3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 April 1859: 4; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

TEAZE:
Pybus, Cassandra, Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Prison Colony 1839-1850, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002: 109; Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 20 January 1826: 3; Hobart Town Gazette, 7 January 1826: 2; Calder, James, Brady, McCabe… and Their Associates. Bushrangers in Van Diemen’s Land 1824-27, Sullivan’s Cove, Adelaide, 1979: 90.

THIMBLE; THIMBLED:
The Digital Panopticon Thomas Cordwell b. 1800, Life Archive ID obpt18270111-78-defend830 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18270111-78-defend830 consulted 30th April 2018); Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

THRUMS, THRUMBUSKINS, or a THRUM-MOP:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 19 March 2018), April 1767, trial of William Mallett Edward Hull Samuel Stevens (t17670429-71).

THROUGH IT, or THROUGH THE PIECE:
Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 5 January 1827: 3 & 6 April 1827: 3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

THROW OFF:
The Mercury, 16 December 1865: 2.

TILBURY:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Kentish Mercury, 6 June 1840: 2.

TINNY; TINNY-HUNTERS:
Barrier Miner, 7 January 1892: 2; Wagga Wagga Express, 9 January 1892: 2.

TIP:
Miller, Linus, Notes of an Exile to Van Diemen’s Land, McKinstry, Fredonia, 1846: 262; The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 3 December 1838: 2; The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 11 January 1839: 2; http://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=%5CPerson%5C40; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

TITTER:
Mary Ann Lucas per Sir Charles Forbes CON40/1/5; The True Colonist Van Diemen’s Land Political Despatch, and Agricultural and Commercial, 26 May 1837: 6; Frost, Lucy, Footsteps and Voices: A Historical Look into the Cascades Female Factory, Female Factory Historic Site, Hobart, 2004: 22.

TOBY; TOBY-GILL, or TOBY-MAN:
Empire, 24 June 1862: 8; The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 1864:12; The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 April 1862: 4; Penzig, F. Edgar, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Francis ‘Frank’ Gardiner; Macalister, Stewart, The Secret Languages of Ireland, Cambridge University Press, 1937: 22; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

TODDLE:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 13 May 1848: 2 & 10 June 1848: 2; Jeffrey, Mark, A Burglar’s Life. Or, the Stirring Adventures of the Great English Burglar, Mark Jeffrey… J. Walch & Sons, Hobart, 1920. First published in 1893: 92.

TODDLER:
Voss, Barbara, Conlin Casella, Eleanor, The Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012: 38-40; Barnard, Simon, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014: 22-23.

TOG:
The Australian, 19 May 1840: 2; The Sydney Herald, 12 April 1838: 2; Jeffrey, Mark, A Burglar’s Life. Or, the Stirring Adventures of the Great English Burglar, Mark Jeffrey… J. Walch & Sons, Hobart, 1920. First published in 1893: 28; Brand, Ian, The ‘Separate’ Or ‘Model’ Prison, Port Arthur, Regal Press, Launceston, 1990.

TOG’D OUT TO THE NINES:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 13 May 1848: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

TOGS, or TOGGERY:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 13 December 1836: 3.

TOM BRAY’S BILK; TOM BROWN:
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 26 October 1814: 6-10; State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4005]; Microfiche: 636.

TOOLS:
The Argus, 17 October 1854: 5; Hollingsworth, Keith, The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens, Wayne State university Press, Detroit, 1963: 140; The Evening Chronicle, 9 October 1837: 4; Morning Post, 25 August 1824: 3.

TOP:
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1 July 1812: 2-3; Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 2 July 1812: 3; Joseph Lee per Lady Castlereagh CON31/1/27.

TOP’D:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 27 June 2018), May 1828, trial of HENRY JONES WILLIAM RICE (t18280529-17).
; The Digital Panopticon Henry Jones b. 1807, Life Archive ID obpt18280529-17-defend171 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18280529-17-defend171 consulted 27th June 2018); Henry Jones per Rosyln Castle CON31/1/23; The Digital Panopticon William Rice b. 1806, Life Archive ID obpt18280529-17-defend172 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18280529-17-defend172 consulted 27th June 2018); North Devon Journal, 10 July 1828: 3.

TO THE NINES; or, TO THE RUFFIAN:
The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 October 1854: 8; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 14 October 1854: 3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

TOUT:
The Era, 14 March 1847: 10; Mount Alexander Mail, 22 May 1869: 2.

TOW; or, TOWLINE. See: LINE.
Harris, Alexander, Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years’ Labour in the Australian Backwoods, C. Cox, London, 1847: 337-338.

TRAPS:
Colonial Times, 13 February 1846: 3; The Observer, 3 March 1846: 3; William Roach per Marquis of Hastings CON33/1/29; Robert Shanahan per Kinnear CON33/1/28; Henry Byron per Elphinstone CON31/1/3.

TRIG:
The Pilot 18 July 1836: 1.

TRY IT ON:
James Coleman per York CON 31/1/6; Davidson, G. F., Trade and Travel in the Far East; Or, Recollections of Twenty-one Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China, Madden and Malcolm, London, 1846: 137.

TURN UP; TURNED UP:
Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 24 December 1858: 3.

TURNIPS:
Peter Duddy per Coromandel CON31/1/9; Backhouse, James, A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies, Hamilton, Adams and Co., London, 1843: lviii.

TURN UP A TRUMP:
Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 26 May 1838: 2; The Sydney Monitor, 13 July 1838: 3.

TWIG:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 7 April 1835: 2.

TWISTED:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 21 March 2018), February 1829, trial of CHARLES GOODLAD (t18290219-118); Coventry Herald, 27 March 1829: 2; Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette, 28 March 1829: 4.

TYE IT UP:
The Hobart Town Courier, 18 September 1830: 3; Colonial Times, 17 September 1830: 4; Cox, Robert, A Compulsion to Kill: The Surprising Story of Australia’s First Serial Killers, Glasshouse Books, Queensland, 2014. Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

UNBETTY:
The Daily Northern Argus, 26 June 1879: 2. Warwick Examiner and Times, 14 June, 1879: 5.

UNDUB:
The Star, 14 April 1858: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

UNPALLED:
The Mercury, 21 July 1870: 2; The Sydney Herald, 28 December 1841: 2; The Cornwall Chronicle, 4 November 1872: 2.

UNSLOUR:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 02 May 2018), September 1800, trial of ESTHER LAWRENCE CHARLOTTE SMITH (t18000917-74); The Digital Panopticon Esther Lawrence b. 1772, Life Archive ID obpt18000917-74-defend769 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18000917-74-defend769 consulted 2nd May 2018); The Digital Panopticon Charlotte Smith b. 1779, Life Archive ID obpt18000917-74-defend771 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18000917-74-defend771 consulted 2nd May 2018); Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal, 3 October 1800: 3.

UNTHIMBLE; UNTHIMBLED:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 25 March 2018), April 1811, trial of MARY CLARKE (t18110403-6); The Digital Panopticon Mary Clarke b. 1787, Life Archive ID obpt18110403-6-defend86 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18110403-6-defend86 consulted 25th March 2018); Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

UP IN THE STIRRUPS:
State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 1156; Item: [X40]; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 16 February 1830: 3; Egan, Pierce, ed., Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Collected from Tried Authorities, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1823.

UPPER-BEN, UPPER-BENJAMIN, UPPER-TOG:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; The Sydney Monitor, 18 August 1830: 2 & 25 Aug 1830: 2.

VARDO; VARDO-GILL:
Australasian Chronicle, 28 July 1842: 4; The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 February 1844: 2; The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 1851: 3; The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 August 1851: 2; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

WACK:
Adelaide Times, 30 April 1855: 3; 3 May 1855: 3; 28 May 1855: 3.

WANTED:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 26 March 1803: 3 & 4 September 1803: 4 & 25 September 1803: 3. Hall, Rachelll, Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture, University of Virginia Press, 2009.

WATER-SNEAK:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 27 March 2018), July 1810, trial of WILLIAM QUELCH GEORGE BROWN (t18100718-30); The Digital Panopticon William Quelch b. 1772, Life Archive ID obpt18100718-30-defend312 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18100718-30-defend312 consulted 27th March 2018); Gray, Drew, Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914, Bloomsbury, London, 2016;

WEDGE:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 27 March 2018), April 1802, trial of SAMUEL CLARKE (t18020428-48); The Digital Panopticon Samuel Clarke b. 1768, Life Archive ID obpt18020428-48-defend334 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18020428-48-defend334 consulted 27th March 2018); Partridge, Eric, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Routledge, New York, 2015; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

WEED:
Barnard, Simon, Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016: 46-47; The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 1855: 2; Empire, 21 September 1855: 6; Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 22 September 1855: 3; Elizabeth Banks per Woodbridge CON40/1/2; CON19/1/2; Morning Post, 12 May 1843: 7.

WEEDING DUES:
Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania, 31 May 1854: 3; The Tasmanian Colonist, 29 May 1854: 2; The Courier, 27 May 1854: 2.

WEIGH FORTY:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 28 March 2018), April 1783, trial of ANN BURTON (t17830430-10); The Statutes of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, With Notes and References by John Raithby, Vol 7, From A.D. 1817; 57 George III – To A.D. 1819, 59 George IV, George Eyre & Andrew Strahan, London,1819: 526; The Tablet of Memory, Showing Every Memorable Event in History, from the Earliest Period to the year 1817, thirteenth edition, G.Wilkes, Scatchered and Letterman etc, London, 1818: 20; Royal Cornwall Gazette, 5 October 1816: 4; Hull Packet, 6 August 1816: 2.

WHIDDLE; WHIDDLER:
Warung, Price, Tales of the Early Days, Richard Clay & Sons, London & Bungay, 1894: 238; B. G. Andrews, ‘Astley, William (1855–1911)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/astley-william-2906/text4175, published first in hardcopy 1969, accessed online 29 June 2018; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

WIN, or WINCHESTER:
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 29 June 2018), June 1829, trial of MARGARET THOMPSON (t18290611-346); Margaret Thompson per Eliza CON40/1/9; Ancestry.com. UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1857, Eliza, 1830.

WIND:
O’Connell, James, A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands, B. B. Mussey, Boston, 1836: 37-38; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 29 March 2018), May 1836, trial of WILLIAM SEYMOUR (t18360509-1255); The Digital Panopticon William Seymour b. 1815, Life Archive ID obpdef1-1255-18360509 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef1-1255-18360509 consulted 29th March 2018); State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X640]; Microfiche: 726.

WOOLLY-BIRDS:
Hereford Times, 31 July 1847: 7.

WORK:
‘Ian Brand’s Macquarie Harbour Historical Research’, Department of Primary Industry and Water, http://library.dpipwe.tas.gov.au; The Hobart Town Courier, 2 February 1828: 4; Colonial Advocate, and Tasmanian Monthly Review and Register, 1 Mar 1828: 47.

WRINKLE; WRINKLE:
John Jackson per Lady Raffles CON31/1/25.

X:
Cox, Robert, A Compulsion to Kill: The Surprising Story of Australia’s First Serial Killers, Glasshouse Books, Queensland, 2014.

YACK:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 02 May 2018), September 1789, trial of ALEXANDER THOMAS GILDEROY , alias GILROY (t17890909-92); The Digital Panopticon Alexander Thomas Gilderoy , Life Archive ID obpt17890909-92-defend786 (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt17890909-92-defend786 consulted 2nd May 2018).

YARN:
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 21 January 1837: 3.

YELLOW:
State Archives NSW; Roll: 2314

YOKUFF:
Barnard, Simon, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014: 56; Rose Carroll per East London CON40/1/2; McMahon, Anne, Convicts at Sea: the Voyages of the Irish Convict Transports to Van Diemen’s Land, 1840-1853, Author, Canberra, 2011: 40; The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Reference Number: ADM 101/22/1.

YORK:
State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X634]; Microfiche: 700; The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 April 1848: 2; The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 26 April 1848: 3; Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Digital edition, Jonathon Green and Abecedary Limited, 2018.

YOUKELL:
The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser, 24 March 1882: 2-3; South Australian Register, 16 August 1881: 6.

ZOUNDS:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 April 2018), February 1784, trial of GEORGE BARRINGTON (t17840225-6); Hampshire Chronicle, 1 March 1784: 3.