Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... CAMBRIDGE FORTUNE . A wind - mill and a water - mill , used to signify a woman without any but personal endow- ments . CAMBRIDGE OAK . A. willow . CAMBRADE . A chamber fellow ; a Spanish military term . Soldiers were in that country ...
... CAMBRIDGE FORTUNE . A wind - mill and a water - mill , used to signify a woman without any but personal endow- ments . CAMBRIDGE OAK . A. willow . CAMBRADE . A chamber fellow ; a Spanish military term . Soldiers were in that country ...
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... Cambridge , where fellow commoners are not in general considered as over full of learning . At Oxford an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner for the same reason . They pay at Cambridge 2501. a year for the privilege of wearing a ...
... Cambridge , where fellow commoners are not in general considered as over full of learning . At Oxford an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner for the same reason . They pay at Cambridge 2501. a year for the privilege of wearing a ...
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... Cambridge , called at Oxford a scout . See Scout . GYPSIES . A set of vagrants , who , to the great disgrace of our police , are suffered to wander about the country . They pretend that they derive their origin from the an- cient ...
... Cambridge , called at Oxford a scout . See Scout . GYPSIES . A set of vagrants , who , to the great disgrace of our police , are suffered to wander about the country . They pretend that they derive their origin from the an- cient ...
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... Cambridge . HOG GRUBBER . A mean stingy fellow . HOGGISH . Rude , unmannerly , filthy . HOGO . Corruption of haut goust , high taste , or flavour ; com- monly said of flesh somewhat tainted . It has a confoun- ded hogo ; it stinks ...
... Cambridge . HOG GRUBBER . A mean stingy fellow . HOGGISH . Rude , unmannerly , filthy . HOGO . Corruption of haut goust , high taste , or flavour ; com- monly said of flesh somewhat tainted . It has a confoun- ded hogo ; it stinks ...
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... Cambridge term . Јов . Any robbery . To do a job ; to commit some kind of robbery . JOCK , OF CROWDY - HEADED JOск . A jeering appellation for a north country seaman , particularly a collier ; Jock being a common name , and crowdy the ...
... Cambridge term . Јов . Any robbery . To do a job ; to commit some kind of robbery . JOCK , OF CROWDY - HEADED JOск . A jeering appellation for a north country seaman , particularly a collier ; Jock being a common name , and crowdy the ...
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