DADDY. To beat daddy mammy; the first rudiments of drum beating, being the elements of the roll.
DAISY KICKERS. Ostlers at great inns.
DANDY PRAT. An insignificant or trifling fellow.
DARK CULLY. A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery.
DARKMAN'S BUDGE. One that slides into a house in the dark of the evening, and hides himself, in order to let some of the gang in at night to rob it.
DEADLY NEVERGREEN, that bears fruit all the year round. The gallows, or three-legged mare.
DICK. I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me.
DIDDLE. Gin.
DIMBER. Pretty. A dimber cove; a pretty fellow. Dimber mort; a pretty wench.
DIP. To dip for a wig. Formerly, in Middle Row, Holborn, wigs of different sorts were, it is said, put into a close-stool box, into which, for three-pence, any one might dip, or thrust in his hand, and take out the first wig he laid hold of; if he was dissatisfied with his prize, he might, on paying three halfpence, return it and dip again.
DISPATCHERS. Loaded or false dice.
TO DOCK. Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis from a venereal complaint.
DOG'S SOUP. Rain water.
DOMMERER. A beggar pretending that his tongue has been cut out by the Algerines, or cruel and blood-thirsty Turks, or else that he was born deaf and dumb.
DROMEDARY. A heavy, bungling thief or rogue. A purple dromedary; a bungler in the art and mystery of thieving.
DUCK F-CK-R. The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war.
DUDDERING RAKE. A thundering rake, a buck of the first head, one
DUTCH CONCERT. Where every one plays or sings a different tune.
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