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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... child , is said to have sprained her ankle . ANODYNE NECKLACE . A halter . " ANTHONY Or TANTONY PIG . The favourite or smallest pig . in the litter . - To follow like a tantony pig , i . e . St. An- thony's pig ; to follow close at ...
... child , is said to have sprained her ankle . ANODYNE NECKLACE . A halter . " ANTHONY Or TANTONY PIG . The favourite or smallest pig . in the litter . - To follow like a tantony pig , i . e . St. An- thony's pig ; to follow close at ...
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... children , and servants , by drop- ping empty papers carefully doubled up , sending persons on absurd messages , and such like contrivances , to impose on every one they can , and then to salute them with the title of April Fool . This ...
... children , and servants , by drop- ping empty papers carefully doubled up , sending persons on absurd messages , and such like contrivances , to impose on every one they can , and then to salute them with the title of April Fool . This ...
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... children hired or borrowed to excite charity . Cant . AUTEM QUAVERS . Quakers .. AUTEM QUAVER TUB . A Quakers ' meeting - house . Cant . AWAKE . Acquainted with , knowing the business . Stow the books , the culls are awake ; hide the ...
... children hired or borrowed to excite charity . Cant . AUTEM QUAVERS . Quakers .. AUTEM QUAVER TUB . A Quakers ' meeting - house . Cant . AWAKE . Acquainted with , knowing the business . Stow the books , the culls are awake ; hide the ...
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... children . Also a familiar epithet for a woman ; as , cunning baggage , wanton baggage , & c . BAKERS DOZEN . Fourteen ; that number of rolls being al- lowed to the purchasers of a dozen . BAKER - KNEE'D . One whose knees knock together ...
... children . Also a familiar epithet for a woman ; as , cunning baggage , wanton baggage , & c . BAKERS DOZEN . Fourteen ; that number of rolls being al- lowed to the purchasers of a dozen . BAKER - KNEE'D . One whose knees knock together ...
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... child . BANYAN DAY , A sea term for those days on which no meat is allowed to the sailors : the term is borrowed from the Banyans in the East Indies , a cast that eat no- thing that had life . BAPTIZED , OR CHRISTENED . Rum , brandy ...
... child . BANYAN DAY , A sea term for those days on which no meat is allowed to the sailors : the term is borrowed from the Banyans in the East Indies , a cast that eat no- thing that had life . BAPTIZED , OR CHRISTENED . Rum , brandy ...
Parole e frasi comuni
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