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A woman's bosom . APPLE - PYE BED . A bed made apple - pye fashion , like what is called a turnover apple - pye , where the sheets are so doubled as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them : a common trick played by ...
A woman's bosom . APPLE - PYE BED . A bed made apple - pye fashion , like what is called a turnover apple - pye , where the sheets are so doubled as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them : a common trick played by ...
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A married woman ; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity . Cant . AUTEM QUAVERS . Quakers . AUTEM QUAVER TUB . A Quakers ' meeting - house . Cant . AWAKE . Acquainted with , knowing the business .
A married woman ; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity . Cant . AUTEM QUAVERS . Quakers . AUTEM QUAVER TUB . A Quakers ' meeting - house . Cant . AWAKE . Acquainted with , knowing the business .
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I'll bring him to his bearings ; I'll bring him to reason . Sea term . BEAST . To drink like a beast , i . e . only when thirsty . BEAST WITH TWO BACKS . A man and woman in the act of copulation . Shakespeare in Othello . BEATER CASES .
I'll bring him to his bearings ; I'll bring him to reason . Sea term . BEAST . To drink like a beast , i . e . only when thirsty . BEAST WITH TWO BACKS . A man and woman in the act of copulation . Shakespeare in Othello . BEATER CASES .
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To be in a woman's beef ; to have carnal know- ledge of her . Say you bought your beef of me , a jocular request from a butcher to a fat man , implying that he cre- dits the butcher who serves him . BEEF EATER .
To be in a woman's beef ; to have carnal know- ledge of her . Say you bought your beef of me , a jocular request from a butcher to a fat man , implying that he cre- dits the butcher who serves him . BEEF EATER .
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A she dog , or doggess ; the most offensive appella- tion that can be given to an English woman , even more provoking than that of whore , as may he gathered from the regular Billinsgate or St. Giles's answer --- " I may be a whore ...
A she dog , or doggess ; the most offensive appella- tion that can be given to an English woman , even more provoking than that of whore , as may he gathered from the regular Billinsgate or St. Giles's answer --- " I may be a whore ...
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beat blow breeches called Cant carried cheat child clothes cock common cull derived Devil door dressed drink drunk expression eyes face fair fellow figuratively fire formerly French frequently girl give given hand hanged head hold horse Irish iron JACK keep kind king legs liquor live London look man's married means mouth never nick nose officers one's originally perhaps person phrase pick pickpocket piece play pocket practised pretend prison QUAKER QUEER rogue saying shilling side signify soldier stand steal story sword tail taken term thieves thing town trick turn vulgar wench whipped wife woman women young
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| Titolo | Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence Mary De Renne collection |
| Autore | Francis Grose |
| Curatore | Hewson Clarke |
| Illustrato da | George Cruikshank |
| Editore | C. Chappel, 1811 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Oxford University |
| Digitalizzato | 18 lug 2007 |
| Lunghezza | 221 pagine |
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