A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words / Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.

by John Camden Hotten

PUT THE POT ON, to bet too much upon one horse.—Sporting.

PUT UP, to suggest, to incite, “he PUT me UP to it;” to have done with; PUT IT UP, is a vulgar answer often heard in the streets. Put Up, to stop at an hotel or tavern for entertainment.

PUT UPON, cheated, deluded, oppressed.

PYGOSTOLE, the least irreverent of names for the peculiar “M.B.” coats worn by Tractarian curates.—

“It is true that the wicked make sport

Of our PYGOSTOLES, as we go by;

And one gownsman, in Trinity Court,

Went so far as to call me a ‘Guy,’”

QUARTEREEN, a farthing.—Gibraltar term. Ital., QUATTRINO.

QUEAN (not QUEEN), a strumpet.