From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - C

CABBAGE. Cloth, stuff, or silk purloined by taylors from their employers, which they deposit in a place called HELL, or their EYE: from the first, when taxed, with their knavery, they equivocally swear, that if they have taken any, they wish they may find it in HELL; or, alluding to the second, protest, that what they have over and above is not more than they could put in their EYE.—When the scrotum is relaxed or whiffled, it is said they will not cabbage.
CACAFEOGO. A shite-fire, a furious braggadocio or bull huff.
CACKLING FARTS. Eggs.
CALIBOGUS. Rum and spruce beer, American beverage.
CAP ACQUAINTANCE. Persons slightly acquainted, or only so far as mutually to salute with the hat on meeting.
CAPTAIN QUEERNABS. A shabby ill-dressed fellow.
CHALKERS. Men of wit, in Ireland, who in the night amuse themselves with cutting inoffensive passengers across the face with a knife. They are somewhat like those facetious gentlemen some time ago known in England by the title of Sweaters and Mohocks.
CHAP. A fellow; An odd chap; A strange fellow.
CHERRY-COLOURED CAT. A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red.
CHICKEN NABOB. One returned from the East Indies with but a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a diminutive nabob.
CHOAK PEAR. Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was of iron, shaped like a pear; this they forced into the mouths of persons from whom they intended to extort money; and on turning a key, certain interior springs thrust forth a number of points, in all directions, which so enlarged it, that it could not be taken out of the mouth: and the iron, being case-hardened, could not be filed: the only methods of getting rid of it, were either by cutting the mouth, or advertizing a reward for the key, These pears were also called pears of agony.
CLOUD. Tobacco.
CONGO. Will you lap your congo with me? will you drink tea with me?

CREW. A knot or gang. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words:

- MEN. 1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams.

- WOMEN. 1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes.

CRUSTY BEAU. One that uses paint and cosmetics, to obtain a fine complexion.

CUCUMBERS. Taylors, who are jocularly said to subsist, during the summer, chiefly on cucumbers.