Selected slang from Victorian London, A-C

Abram: to sham, to slum, to pretend sickness

Academy: a brothel, bagnio

Academican: a scholar at an academy, a whore at a brothel

Affair of honour: killing an innocent man in a duel

Angelics: young unmarried ladies

Bag the swag: pocket your portion, hide your whack

Bar that: forget it, stow it, don’t mention it

Bob: a shoplifter’s assistant

Buss: a kiss

Buttock and file: to pickpocket

Cake: an easy, stupid fellow

Cat: a drunken, fighting prostitute

Cheeks: an imaginary person nobody; as in, Who does that belong to? Cheeks.

Chere amie: a sweetheart; friend-with-benefits

Clean shirt day: Sunday

from victorianlondon.org

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