Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... term feeing life , may not be unamufing to our readers.The friends of the perfon on trial , anxious for his fate , had employed accomplices to go to and from the Sef- fions houfe , merely to report to them the progrefs of the trial ...
... term feeing life , may not be unamufing to our readers.The friends of the perfon on trial , anxious for his fate , had employed accomplices to go to and from the Sef- fions houfe , merely to report to them the progrefs of the trial ...
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... term for small beer , five pints of which , by an act of parliament , a landlord was for- merly obliged to give to each soldier gratis . ACTEON . A cuckold , from the horns planted on the head of Acteon by Diana . B Ac- ACTIVE CITIZEN ...
... term for small beer , five pints of which , by an act of parliament , a landlord was for- merly obliged to give to each soldier gratis . ACTEON . A cuckold , from the horns planted on the head of Acteon by Diana . B Ac- ACTIVE CITIZEN ...
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... term used for one burned in the hand . He has got his badge , and piked ; he was burned in the hand , and is at liberty . Cant . BADGE - COVES . Parish Pensioners . Cant . BADGERS . A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers ...
... term used for one burned in the hand . He has got his badge , and piked ; he was burned in the hand , and is at liberty . Cant . BADGE - COVES . Parish Pensioners . Cant . BADGERS . A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers ...
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... 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 , or any other spirits ...
... 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 , or any other spirits ...
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... term of ridicule applied to convicts , who sham illness , to avoid being sent to Botany Bay . BAYARD OF TEN TOES . To ride bayard of ten toes , is to walk on foot . Bayard was a horse famous in old romances . BEAK . A justice of peace ...
... term of ridicule applied to convicts , who sham illness , to avoid being sent to Botany Bay . BAYARD OF TEN TOES . To ride bayard of ten toes , is to walk on foot . Bayard was a horse famous in old romances . BEAK . A justice of peace ...
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