Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... jocular punishment among seamen , who sometimes play at cards for wackets , the loser suffering as many strokes as he has lost games . ABIGAIL . A lady's waiting - maid . ABRAM . Naked . Cant . ABRAM COVE . A cant word among thieves ...
... jocular punishment among seamen , who sometimes play at cards for wackets , the loser suffering as many strokes as he has lost games . ABIGAIL . A lady's waiting - maid . ABRAM . Naked . Cant . ABRAM COVE . A cant word among thieves ...
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... are in his ballocks , a cant saying to designate a fool . BALUM RANCUм . A hop or dance , where the women are all prostitutes . N. B. The company dance in their birth- day suits . BALSAM . # BALSAM . Money . BAM . A jocular imposition , ...
... are in his ballocks , a cant saying to designate a fool . BALUM RANCUм . A hop or dance , where the women are all prostitutes . N. B. The company dance in their birth- day suits . BALSAM . # BALSAM . Money . BAM . A jocular imposition , ...
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... jocular imposition , the same as a humbug . See HUMBUG . TO BAM . To impose on any one by a falsity ; also to jeer or make fun of any one . TO BAMBOOZLE . To make a fool of any one , to humbug or impose on him . BANAGHAN . He beats ...
... jocular imposition , the same as a humbug . See HUMBUG . TO BAM . To impose on any one by a falsity ; also to jeer or make fun of any one . TO BAMBOOZLE . To make a fool of any one , to humbug or impose on him . BANAGHAN . He beats ...
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... jocular request from a butcher to a fat man , implying that he cre- dits the butcher who serves him . BEEF EATER . A yeoman of the guards , instituted by Henry VII . Their office was to stand near the bouffet , or cup- board , thence ...
... jocular request from a butcher to a fat man , implying that he cre- dits the butcher who serves him . BEEF EATER . A yeoman of the guards , instituted by Henry VII . Their office was to stand near the bouffet , or cup- board , thence ...
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... jocular name for a baker . BURN THE KEN . Strollers living in an alehouse without pay . ing their quarters , are said to burn the ken . Cant . BURNING SHAME . A lighted candle stuck into the parts of a woman , certainly not intended by ...
... jocular name for a baker . BURN THE KEN . Strollers living in an alehouse without pay . ing their quarters , are said to burn the ken . Cant . BURNING SHAME . A lighted candle stuck into the parts of a woman , certainly not intended by ...
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