Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... child , is said to have sprained her ankle . ANODYNE NECKLACE . A halter . ANTHONY OF 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 one's ...
... child , is said to have sprained her ankle . ANODYNE NECKLACE . A halter . ANTHONY OF 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 one's ...
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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 1 . 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 1 . 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 ...
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