Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... dram - shop , collected in a vessel into which the drainingsof the bottles and quartern pots are emptied . ALLS . The five alls is a country sign , representing five hu- man figures , each having a motto under him . The first is a king ...
... dram - shop , collected in a vessel into which the drainingsof the bottles and quartern pots are emptied . ALLS . The five alls is a country sign , representing five hu- man figures , each having a motto under him . The first is a king ...
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... dram drinker . Cant . BINGO MORT . A female dram drinker . Cant . BINNACLE WORD . A fine or affected word , which sailors jeeringly offer to chalk up on the binnacle . BIRD AND BABY . The sign of the eagle and child . BIRD - WITTED ...
... dram drinker . Cant . BINGO MORT . A female dram drinker . Cant . BINNACLE WORD . A fine or affected word , which sailors jeeringly offer to chalk up on the binnacle . BIRD AND BABY . The sign of the eagle and child . BIRD - WITTED ...
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... drams , & c . commonly rowed by a woman ; a kind of floating chandler's shop . BUM FODDER . Soft paper for the ... dram ; strictly speaking , to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed . BUNT . An apron . BUNTER . A low dirty ...
... drams , & c . commonly rowed by a woman ; a kind of floating chandler's shop . BUM FODDER . Soft paper for the ... dram ; strictly speaking , to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed . BUNT . An apron . BUNTER . A low dirty ...
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... dram . Sea wit . CANTICLE . A parish clerk . A CANTING . Preaching with a whining , affected tone , perhaps a corruption of chaunting ; some derive it from Andrew Cant , a famous Scotch preacher , who used that whining manner of ...
... dram . Sea wit . CANTICLE . A parish clerk . A CANTING . Preaching with a whining , affected tone , perhaps a corruption of chaunting ; some derive it from Andrew Cant , a famous Scotch preacher , who used that whining manner of ...
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... dram of any spirituous liquor . COKER . A lie . COKES . The tool in the play of Bartholomew Fair : perhaps a contraction of the word corcomb . COLCANNON . Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a mortar , and then stewed with butter ...
... dram of any spirituous liquor . COKER . A lie . COKES . The tool in the play of Bartholomew Fair : perhaps a contraction of the word corcomb . COLCANNON . Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a mortar , and then stewed with butter ...
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Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and ... Francis Grose Visualizzazione completa - 1811 |
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