Whitechapeln.

?1695 Copy of Verses containing Catal. Young Wenches (single sheet) Young Bridget fine and gay, fit for promotion, She has I'll tell you a White-Chappel Portion, Which is a Mark a year her Mother gave her.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew White-chappel-portion, two torn Smocks, and what Nature gave.

?1714 N. Ward Miseries of Whoring 155 For that White-chappel Portion; no, not he; Then what must mournful Miss's Fortune be?

1734 Good News to Distressed 11 In the List of Blanks, are to be included, all such as are known by the Name of Termagants, Teazers, Scolds, Curtain-Lecturers, Whitechapel-Fortunes, &c.

a1791 F. Grose Olio (1792) 73 The inhabitants of Kent-street and St. Giles's, are mentioned by those of Wapping, Whitechapel, Mile End, and the Borough, with sovereign contempt;..nor do the rich citizens of Lombard-street ever lose the opportunity of retailing the joke on a Whitechapel fortune.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Whitechapel Fortune, a clean gown and a pair of pattens.

1890 F. W. Carew No. 747 xxxv. 416 My missus..though she brought me nothink but a Whitechapel fortin', she were worth her weight in gold.

1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 16 Apr. 3/1 Imported in..the late Ships from London..Best white chappel needles, london pins, childrens shoes and pumps cases.

1744 Pennsylvania Gaz. 1 Nov. 4/2 (advt.) Just imported from London,..Whitechapel and glovers needles.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 129 A tailor with the frame of a Samson handling a piece of cloth and a small Whitechapel needle.

1901 Atlantic Monthly June 754/1 My mother sent me for a paper of Whitechapel needles, and two of manikin pins.

2007 C. A. Leslie Needlework through Hist. 130 An invoice reveals that the settlers in early Virginia specifically asked for Whitechapel needles when ordering goods from England.

1755 Connoisseur (ed. 2) No. 60. II. 196 Many ladies..know no more of the game [sc. whist], than what is called White-Chapel play!

1798 Monthly Mag. Mar. 164/2 How we played, I shall not say, but we discovered in no long time, that it was not Whitechapel play.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Whitechapel-play [= Bungay-play, a simple straightforward way of playing the game of whist, by leading all the winning cards in succession, without endeavouring to make the best of the hand.]

1866 Notes & Queries 26 May 440/2 All billiard players know, that when an adversary ‘pockets’ your ball, it is called ‘Whitechapel play’, the act of doing so being considered anything but etiquette.

1911 Encycl. Sport & Games (new ed.) I. 277/2 There is a very widespread prejudice..against ‘potting the white,’ such a stroke being frequently described as ‘Whitechapel play’.

1981 P. Wright Cockney Dial. & Slang 50 Whitechapel play for cheating in billiards and hence any game.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Whitechapel breed, fat, ragged, and saucy. Whitechapel beau, who dresses with a needle and thread, and undresses with a knife.

1856 London Jrnl. 6 Sept. 6/3 That gentleman appeared, dressed in the height of Whitechapel fashion, with a cigar in his mouth and a profusion of gold chains.

1886 J. P. Hore Hist. Newmarket II. vii. 53 When only a kid—if such a plebeian Whitechapel phrase may be applied to a royal Whitehall prince.

1903 F. Miltoun Dickens' London (1904) 281 A ‘Whitechapel bird’ and a ‘Whitechapel butcher’ were once synonymous phrases, used to denote a character the very reverse of a gentleman.

1912 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 May 410/1 'E jumps up, usin' proper Whitechapel language, sir; an' I says to 'im, ‘If ye don't stop swearin' I shall 'ave to put ye under arrest.’

1918 E. P. Oppenheim Zeppelin's Passenger xvii. 160 I ought to go and tell Henry exactly what I think of him, or pull him away in the approved Whitechapel fashion.

1839 Leeds Mercury 2 Mar. 8/6 Lot 17. A Whitechapel cart, in good order.

1870 M. E. Braddon in Belgravia 150 It was not in the nature of any woman to refuse to be mistress of Wyncomb, and to drive her own whitechapel cart.

1905 E. L. Anderson & P. Collier Racing & Driving xvi. 405 The Whitechapel cart derives its name from a locality in the East End of London..and was originally intended for some practical purpose, such as hawking vegetables or milk.

1996 B. W. Edginton Charles Waterton i. 7 Charles Waterton would return with his sisters-in-law, by train and Whitechapel cart.

1860 Slang Dict. Whitechapel, or Westminster Brougham, a costermonger's donkey-barrow.

1876 All Year Round 16 Sept. 15/1 The cockney must ride on 'bus or coach, on hearse or dray, on Whitechapel brougham or shandrydan.

1892 G. Pitt Misc. Pieces 325 I would..be a purveyor of Oysters on a Whitechapel Brougham in the West End busy streets.

1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 12 Sept. 64/2 What is termed in Albion a ‘Whitechapel shave’ (and which is, in fact, whitening, judiciously applied to the jaws with the palm of the hand).

1966 Western Folklore 25 38 (Gloss.) Jew shave, covering an unshaven face with talcum powder... In England, I believe, the expression is Whitechapel shave.

1842 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. ii. 94 For a minister with a family, a whitechapel is, upon the whole, the best of the open conveyances... It carries six.

1875 Hints to Young Tandem Drivers 6 Whitechapels (from the fact that the passengers sit inside them instead of outside) are dangerous to get out of in any emergency.

1900 T. W. Gunton Brit. Patent 1332/1900 1 (title) Improved seat-shifting fittings for dog-carts, Whitechapels, or any other vehicles.

1932 A. Steel Jorrock's Eng. v. 74 We are working down the social scale and with the gig, the one-horse ‘Whitechapel’ and the dog-cart we are definitely in a plebeian world.

1899 A. E. Mainwaring Cut Cavendish ii. 12 Avoid the hateful ‘Whitechapel,’ i.e. the lead from a single card.