Burlington Arcade, The—Piccadilly, London, opened 20th March, 1814.
Burster.—A small loaf. A burster and beeswax, bread and cheese.
Bustle.—Money of any sort or quantity.
Buzz—Buzzers.—Pickpockets.
Buzz Napper.—A young pickpocket.
Buzz Napper’s Academy.—A school in which young thieves are trained to the art. Stow informs us that in 1585 a person named Wotton kept an Academy for the education and perfection of pickpockets and cut-purses: two devices were hung up—one was a pocket, and the other was a purse; the pocket had in it certain counters, and was hung about with hawk’s bells, and over the top did hang a little scaring bell; the purse had silver in it, and he that could take out a counter without noise of any of the bells was adjudged a judicial napper!
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Cabbage.—Cloth, stuff, or silk, purloined by tailors and sempstresses, who are for ever, snip! snip!! snipping!!! Cuttings that serve for trimmings to an occasional merry-making leg of mutton.
Cadge, Cadger, Cadging.—To beg, a beggar, begging of the lowest degree; a mean sort of thief. Very indefatigable persons in their vocation.
Cads of the Aristocracy.—Liveried footman, servants, and all other hangers on upon the nobility and gentry.