Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... thing for hire . AFTER - CLAP . A demand after the first given in has been discharged ; a charge for pretended omissions ; in short , any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end ...
... thing for hire . AFTER - CLAP . A demand after the first given in has been discharged ; a charge for pretended omissions ; in short , any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end ...
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... thing , it was a decided thing from the beginning . See HOLLOW . ALL NATIONS . A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram - shop , collected in a vessel into which the drainingsof the bottles and quartern pots are emptied ...
... thing , it was a decided thing from the beginning . See HOLLOW . ALL NATIONS . A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram - shop , collected in a vessel into which the drainingsof the bottles and quartern pots are emptied ...
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... thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is proffered , like offering a bandbox for a seat . BANBURY STORY OF A COCK AND A BULL . A round- about , nonsensical story . BANDOG . A bailiff or his follower ; also a very fierce mastiff ...
... thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is proffered , like offering a bandbox for a seat . BANBURY STORY OF A COCK AND A BULL . A round- about , nonsensical story . BANDOG . A bailiff or his follower ; also a very fierce mastiff ...
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... things from them . TO CREEME . To slip or slide any thing into the hands of another . Cant . CREEPERS . Gentlemen's companions , lice . CREW . A knot or gang ; also a boat or ship's company . The canting crew are thus divided into ...
... things from them . TO CREEME . To slip or slide any thing into the hands of another . Cant . CREEPERS . Gentlemen's companions , lice . CREW . A knot or gang ; also a boat or ship's company . The canting crew are thus divided into ...
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... thing unlikely to hap- pen . It rains whilst the sun shines , the Devil is beating his wife with a shoulder of mutton : this phenomenon is also said to denote that cuckolds are going to heaven ; on being informed of this , a loving wife ...
... thing unlikely to hap- pen . It rains whilst the sun shines , the Devil is beating his wife with a shoulder of mutton : this phenomenon is also said to denote that cuckolds are going to heaven ; on being informed of this , a loving wife ...
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