Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... drop ; or , it would be a dead leg , viz . tranfportation for life . The fe- cond reported that things did not go on fo rumly with him as at firft , for the Counfel had gammon- ed for him , and fo bothered , viz . cross - examined the ...
... drop ; or , it would be a dead leg , viz . tranfportation for life . The fe- cond reported that things did not go on fo rumly with him as at firft , for the Counfel had gammon- ed for him , and fo bothered , viz . cross - examined the ...
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... 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 is also practised in Scot ...
... 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 is also practised in Scot ...
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... drop to draw in a bubble . COG . A tooth . A queer cog ; a rotten tooth . How the cull flashes his queer cogs ; how the fool shews his rotten teeth . To Coa , To cheat with dice ; also to coax or wheedle . To cog cog a die ; to conceal ...
... drop to draw in a bubble . COG . A tooth . A queer cog ; a rotten tooth . How the cull flashes his queer cogs ; how the fool shews his rotten teeth . To Coa , To cheat with dice ; also to coax or wheedle . To cog cog a die ; to conceal ...
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... drop to draw in a bubble . COG . A tooth . A queer cog ; a rotten tooth . How the cull flashes his queer cogs ; how the fool shews his rotten teeth . To Cou , To cheat , with dice ; also to coax or wheedle . To cog cog a die ; to ...
... drop to draw in a bubble . COG . A tooth . A queer cog ; a rotten tooth . How the cull flashes his queer cogs ; how the fool shews his rotten teeth . To Cou , To cheat , with dice ; also to coax or wheedle . To cog cog a die ; to ...
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... DROP . DROP A COG . To let fall , with design , a piece of gold or silver , in order to draw in and cheat the person who sees it picked up ; the piece so dropped is called a dropt cog . DROP DROP IN THE EYE . Almost drunk . DROPPING MEMBER ...
... DROP . DROP A COG . To let fall , with design , a piece of gold or silver , in order to draw in and cheat the person who sees it picked up ; the piece so dropped is called a dropt cog . DROP DROP IN THE EYE . Almost drunk . DROPPING MEMBER ...
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