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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... thing for hire . AFTER - CLAP . A demand after the first given in has been discharged ; a charge for pretended omissions ; in short , any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end ...
... thing for hire . AFTER - CLAP . A demand after the first given in has been discharged ; a charge for pretended omissions ; in short , any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end ...
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... thing , it was a decided thing from the beginning . See HOLLOW . ALL NATIONS . A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram - shop , collected in a vessel into which the drainingsof the bottles and quartern pots are emptied ...
... thing , it was a decided thing from the beginning . See HOLLOW . ALL NATIONS . A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram - shop , collected in a vessel into which the drainingsof the bottles and quartern pots are emptied ...
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... thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is proffered , like offering a bandbox for a seat . BANBURY STORY OF A COCK AND A BULL . A round- about , nonsensical story . BANDOG . A bailiff or his follower ; also a very fierce . mastiff ...
... thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is proffered , like offering a bandbox for a seat . BANBURY STORY OF A COCK AND A BULL . A round- about , nonsensical story . BANDOG . A bailiff or his follower ; also a very fierce . mastiff ...
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... thing , and are generally blest with a pretty family of daughters : who unmake the beds , as fast as they are made by their mothers . BEEF . To cry beef ; to give the alarm . They have cried beef Cant . To be in a man's beef ; to wound ...
... thing , and are generally blest with a pretty family of daughters : who unmake the beds , as fast as they are made by their mothers . BEEF . To cry beef ; to give the alarm . They have cried beef Cant . To be in a man's beef ; to wound ...
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... thing . The kid- dey bounced the swell of the blowen ; the lad bullied the gentleman out of the girl . BOUNCER . A large man or woman ; also a great lie . BOUNCING CHEAT . A bottle ; from the explosion in drawing the cork . Cant . BOUNG ...
... thing . The kid- dey bounced the swell of the blowen ; the lad bullied the gentleman out of the girl . BOUNCER . A large man or woman ; also a great lie . BOUNCING CHEAT . A bottle ; from the explosion in drawing the cork . Cant . BOUNG ...
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a-se allusion appellation bailiff bawdy-house beat beef beer beggars blow bottle BOX THE JESUIT brandy breeches BROWN BESS bull bully called Cambridge Cant cant language canting crew cheat child clothes cock cove cuckold cull darkmans Devil dice DOG LATIN dram drink drunk Exchange Alley eyes fellow flash Fleet prison formerly French frequently gallows gentleman girl give guinea guts hand hanged head highwayman horse Irish JACK jocular king's lame duck legs link-boy liquor married mistress MORT mouth Newgate nick name nose officers one's person pickpocket piece pillory play pocket practised pretend prison prostitute QUEER rogue sailors saying Sea phrase Sea term sham sharper signify soldier steal story sword tail taylor thief thieves thing trick venereal venereal disease vulgar wench whipped whore wife wine woman women word young