Lexicon Balatronicum. A dictionary of Buckish slang, University wit, and Pick Pocket eloquence. ... Altered and enlarged ... by a member of the Whip Club1811 |
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... drinking . BARROW MAN . A man under sentence of transportation ; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich , who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt . BARTHOLOMEW BABY . A person dressed up in a tawdry manner ...
... drinking . BARROW MAN . A man under sentence of transportation ; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich , who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt . BARTHOLOMEW BABY . A person dressed up in a tawdry manner ...
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... drink like a beast , i . e . only when thirsty . BEAST WITH TWO BACKS . A man and woman in the act of copulation . Shakespeare in Othello . BEATER CASES . Boots . Cant . BEAU - NASTY . Aslovenly fop ; one finely dressed , but dirty ...
... drink like a beast , i . e . only when thirsty . BEAST WITH TWO BACKS . A man and woman in the act of copulation . Shakespeare in Othello . BEATER CASES . Boots . Cant . BEAU - NASTY . Aslovenly fop ; one finely dressed , but dirty ...
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... drink , demanded of any one having a new suit of clothes . BIBLE . A boatswain's great axe . Sea term . BIBLE OATH . Supposed by the vulgar to be more binding than an oath taken on the Testament only , as being the big- ger book , and ...
... drink , demanded of any one having a new suit of clothes . BIBLE . A boatswain's great axe . Sea term . BIBLE OATH . Supposed by the vulgar to be more binding than an oath taken on the Testament only , as being the big- ger book , and ...
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... drink out of , made of jacked lea- ther . BLACK JOKE . A popular tune to a song , having for the burden , " Her black joke and belly so white : " figuratively the black joke signifies the monosyllable . See MONOSYL- LABLE . BLACK INDIES ...
... drink out of , made of jacked lea- ther . BLACK JOKE . A popular tune to a song , having for the burden , " Her black joke and belly so white : " figuratively the black joke signifies the monosyllable . See MONOSYL- LABLE . BLACK INDIES ...
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... drinks brandy , TO BLOW THE GROUNSILS , To lie with a woman on the floor . Cant . TO BLOW THE GAB . To confess , or impeach a confe- derate . Cant . BLOW - UP . A discovery , or the confusion occasioned by one , A BLOWSE , or ...
... drinks brandy , TO BLOW THE GROUNSILS , To lie with a woman on the floor . Cant . TO BLOW THE GAB . To confess , or impeach a confe- derate . Cant . BLOW - UP . A discovery , or the confusion occasioned by one , A BLOWSE , or ...
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