Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... look blank ; to appear disappointed or con- founded . BLANKET HORNPIPE . The amorous congress . BLARNEY . He has licked the blarney stone ; he deals in the wonderful , or tips us the traveller . The blarney stoneis a triangular stone on ...
... look blank ; to appear disappointed or con- founded . BLANKET HORNPIPE . The amorous congress . BLARNEY . He has licked the blarney stone ; he deals in the wonderful , or tips us the traveller . The blarney stoneis a triangular stone on ...
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... look blue ; to be confounded , terrified , or disap- pointed , Blue as a razor ; perhaps , blue as azure , BLUE BOAR , A venereal bubo , " BLUE DEVILS , Low spirits . BLUE FLAG . He has hoisted the blue flag ; he has com- menced ...
... look blue ; to be confounded , terrified , or disap- pointed , Blue as a razor ; perhaps , blue as azure , BLUE BOAR , A venereal bubo , " BLUE DEVILS , Low spirits . BLUE FLAG . He has hoisted the blue flag ; he has com- menced ...
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... Ben Johnson ! why you look as if you could not say Boh to a goose ! " " Boh ! " replied the wit . 66 BOLD . Bold as a miller's shirt , which every day takes a rogue by the collar . C 2 BOLT . BOLT . A blunt arrow . BOLT UPRIGHT . As BOL.
... Ben Johnson ! why you look as if you could not say Boh to a goose ! " " Boh ! " replied the wit . 66 BOLD . Bold as a miller's shirt , which every day takes a rogue by the collar . C 2 BOLT . BOLT . A blunt arrow . BOLT UPRIGHT . As BOL.
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... look like bull beef , or as bluff as bull beef ; to look fierce or surly . Town bull , a great whore - master . BULL . A crown piece . A half bull ; half a crown . BULL BEGGAR , or BULLY BEGGAR . An imaginary being with which children ...
... look like bull beef , or as bluff as bull beef ; to look fierce or surly . Town bull , a great whore - master . BULL . A crown piece . A half bull ; half a crown . BULL BEGGAR , or BULLY BEGGAR . An imaginary being with which children ...
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... look out , the bailiffs know where our house is si tuated . BUM BAILIFF . A sheriff's officer , who arrests debtors ; so called perhaps from following his prey , and being at their bums , or , as the vulgar phrase is , hard at theira ...
... look out , the bailiffs know where our house is si tuated . BUM BAILIFF . A sheriff's officer , who arrests debtors ; so called perhaps from following his prey , and being at their bums , or , as the vulgar phrase is , hard at theira ...
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