Ramper (ramp, or rampsman); ranger; rank-rider; rapparee; rascal (Grose); reader-hunter; reader-merchant; repeater and revolver (American tramps'); resurrectionist; ring-dropper; ring-faller; river-rat; road-agent; roberd's-man (or knave); rob-*thief; rogue; rook; rover; royal scamp; royal foot-scamp; rumbler; runner; running glasier; running-snavel.
Saint Peter's son; St Nicholas's clerk; St Nicholas's clergyman; salter; satyr (= cattle thief); sawny-hunter; scamp; scamps-*man; screwsman; scuffle-hunter; setter; shark; sharp; sharper; shaver; sheep-biter; sheep-*napper; sheep-shearer; she-*napper; shifter; shoful-pitcher; shop-bouncer; shop-lift; shop-*lifter; shoulderer; shoulder-*sham; shover; shark; shutter-*racket worker; shyce; shyster; silk-snatcher; silver cooper; skylarker; slink; smasher; smugger; snabbler; snaffle; snaffler; snaggler; snakesman; snammer; snap; snapper; snapper-up; snatch-cly; snatcher; sneak; sneak-thief; sneaking-*budge; sneaksman; sneck-drawer; sneeze-lurker; snick-*fudger; snide-pitcher; snow-*dropper; snow-gatherer; snudge; soaper; sourplanter; son of St Peter; spice-gloak; stall (or stale); stallsman; stander-up; standing-*budge; stook-hauler; sutler; swags-*man; sweetener; swigman; swimmer; swindler.
Tail-buzzer; thimble-rigger; thimble-twister; till-sneak; tinny-hunter; toby-gill; toby-*man; tool; tooler; top-sawyer; tosher; toy-getter; tradesman; traveller; tripper-up; Tyburn-*blossom.
Uncorn; unregenerate; up-*right-man.
Vamper; village bustler; voucher.
Walking poulterer; watchmaker; waterpad; water-sneak; water-sneaksman; welcher; wheedle; whipster; whispering dudder; whyo; wild rogue; wipe-drawer; workman; wrong 'un.
Ziff.
Thief-takers, subs. (old).—Fellows
who associate with all kinds
of villains, in order to betray them,
when they have committed any
of those crimes which entitle the
persons taking them to a handsome
reward, called blood money.
It is the business of these thief-takers
to furnish subjects for a
handsome execution at the end of
every sessions' (Grose). Also
(B. E.), 'who make a Trade of
helping People (for a gratuity) to
their lost Goods, and sometimes
for Interest or Envy snapping the
Rogues themselves; being usually
in fee with them and acquainted
with their Haunts.'
Thieves. Thieves' Latin, subs.
phr. (old).—The cant terms and
slang used by thieves; St Giles'
Greek; Peddlar's French
(q.v.) etc.
1855. Kingsley, Westward Ho. '"Go away," I heard her say, . . . And then something about a "queer cuffin," that's a justice in these carters' thieves' Latin.'
The Murdering Thieves, subs. phr. (military).—The Military Train; the title from 1857 to 1860 of The Army Service Corps.
