Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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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 Cou . To cheat with dice ; also to coax or wheedle . To cog COL 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 COL 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 DUC DROP IN THE EYE . Almost drunk . DROPPING.
... 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 DUC DROP IN THE EYE . Almost drunk . DROPPING.
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... DROP IN THE EYE . Almost drunk . DROPPING MEMBER . A man's yard with a gonorrhoea . DROP COVES . Persons who practice the fraud of drop- ping a ring or other article , and picking it up before the person intended to be defrauded , they ...
... DROP IN THE EYE . Almost drunk . DROPPING MEMBER . A man's yard with a gonorrhoea . DROP COVES . Persons who practice the fraud of drop- ping a ring or other article , and picking it up before the person intended to be defrauded , they ...
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... drops a brass ring , double gilt , which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated , and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed , and ten times more than its real , value . See MONEY DROPPER . FAWNEY . A ring ...
... drops a brass ring , double gilt , which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated , and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed , and ten times more than its real , value . See MONEY DROPPER . FAWNEY . A ring ...
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