Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... Dice . BONE BOX . The mouth . Shut your bone box ; shut your mouth . BONE PICKER . A footman . BONED . Seized , apprehended , taken up by a constable . Cant . BOLUS . A nick name for an apothecary . BONE SETTER , A hard - trotting horse ...
... Dice . BONE BOX . The mouth . Shut your bone box ; shut your mouth . BONE PICKER . A footman . BONED . Seized , apprehended , taken up by a constable . Cant . BOLUS . A nick name for an apothecary . BONE SETTER , A hard - trotting horse ...
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... 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 conceal or secure a.
... 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 conceal or secure a.
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... DICE . The names of false dice : A bale of bard cinque deuces A bale offlat cinque deuces A bale of flat sice aces A bale of bard cater traes A bale of flat cater traes A bale of fulhams A bale of light graniers A bale of langrets ...
... DICE . The names of false dice : A bale of bard cinque deuces A bale offlat cinque deuces A bale of flat sice aces A bale of bard cater traes A bale of flat cater traes A bale of fulhams A bale of light graniers A bale of langrets ...
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... dice . DISTRACTED DIVISION . Husband and wife fighting . DIVE . To dive ; to pick a pocket . To dive for a dinner ; to go down into a cellar to dinner . A dive , is a thief who stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little ...
... dice . DISTRACTED DIVISION . Husband and wife fighting . DIVE . To dive ; to pick a pocket . To dive for a dinner ; to go down into a cellar to dinner . A dive , is a thief who stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little ...
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... dice , that will run but two or three chances . They put the doctors upon him ; they cheated him with loaded dice . DODSEY . A Woman : perhaps a corruption of Doxey . Cant . DOG BUFFERS . Dog stealers , who kill those dogs not ad ...
... dice , that will run but two or three chances . They put the doctors upon him ; they cheated him with loaded dice . DODSEY . A Woman : perhaps a corruption of Doxey . Cant . DOG BUFFERS . Dog stealers , who kill those dogs not ad ...
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a-se allusion appellation bailiff bawdy-house beat beef beer beggars blow bottle brandy breeches BROWN BESS bull bully called Cambridge Cant cant language canting crew cheat child clothes cock cove cuckold cull darkmans Devil dice DOG LATIN dram drink drunk Exchange Alley eyes fellow flash Fleet prison formerly French frequently gallows gentleman girl give guinea guts hand hanged head highwayman horse Irish JACK King's lame duck legs link-boy liquor married mistress MORT mouth Newgate nick name nose officers one's person pickpocket piece pillory play pocket Pot valiant practised pretend prison prostitute QUEER rogue sailors saying Sea phrase Sea term sham sharper signify soldier steal story sword tail taylor thief thieves thing trick Tyburn venereal venereal disease vulgar wench whipped whore wife wine woman women word young