BOUNCE, a showy swindler.
BOUNCE, to boast, cheat, or bully.—Old cant.
BOUNCER, a person who steals whilst bargaining with a tradesman; a lie.
BOUNDER, a four-wheel cab. Lucus a non lucendo?
BOUNETTER, a fortune-telling cheat.—Gipsey.
BOW-CATCHERS, or KISS-CURLS, small curls twisted on the cheeks or temples of young—and often old—girls, adhering to the face as if gummed or pasted. Evidently a corruption of BEAU-CATCHERS. In old times these were called love-locks, when they were the marks at which all the puritan and ranting preachers levelled their pulpit pop-guns, loaded with sharp and virulent abuse. Hall and Prynne looked upon all women as strumpets who dared to let the hair depart from a straight line upon their cheeks. The French prettily term them accroche-cœurs, whilst in the United States they are plainly and unpleasantly called SPIT-CURLS. Bartlett says:—“Spit Curl, a detached lock of hair curled upon the temple; probably from having been at first plastered
into shape by the saliva. It is now understood that the mucilage of quince seed is used by the ladies for this purpose.”
“You may prate of your lips, and your teeth of pearl,
And your eyes so brightly flashing;
My song shall be of that SALIVA CURL