Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... BULL . A round- about , nonsensical story . BANDOG . A bailiff or his follower ; also a very fierce mastiff : likewise , a bandbox . Cant . BANG UP . ( Whip . ) Quite the thing , hellish fine . Well done . Compleat . Dashing . In a ...
... BULL . A round- about , nonsensical story . BANDOG . A bailiff or his follower ; also a very fierce mastiff : likewise , a bandbox . Cant . BANG UP . ( Whip . ) Quite the thing , hellish fine . Well done . Compleat . Dashing . In a ...
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... bull beef . BLUFFER . An inn - keeper . Cant . BLUNDERBUSS . A short gun , with a wide bore , for car- rying slugs ; also a stupid , blundering fellow . BLUNT . Money . Cant . TO BLUSTER . To talk big , to hector or bully . BOARDING ...
... bull beef . BLUFFER . An inn - keeper . Cant . BLUNDERBUSS . A short gun , with a wide bore , for car- rying slugs ; also a stupid , blundering fellow . BLUNT . Money . Cant . TO BLUSTER . To talk big , to hector or bully . BOARDING ...
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... to be robbed , and the file does the business . BULKER . One who lodges all night on a bulk or projection before old - fashioned shop windows . BULL . An Exchange Alley term for one who buys stock on BUM on speculation for time , i . e .
... to be robbed , and the file does the business . BULKER . One who lodges all night on a bulk or projection before old - fashioned shop windows . BULL . An Exchange Alley term for one who buys stock on BUM on speculation for time , i . e .
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... BULL . A blunder ; from one Obadiah Bull , a blundering lawyer of London , who lived in the reign of Henery VII .: by a bull , is now always meant a blunder made by an Irish- man . A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much ...
... BULL . A blunder ; from one Obadiah Bull , a blundering lawyer of London , who lived in the reign of Henery VII .: by a bull , is now always meant a blunder made by an Irish- man . A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much ...
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... BULL STORY . A roundabout story , without head or tail , i . e . beginning or ending . COCK OF THE COMPANY . A weak man , who from the de- sire of being the head of the company associates with low people , and pays all the reckoning ...
... BULL STORY . A roundabout story , without head or tail , i . e . beginning or ending . COCK OF THE COMPANY . A weak man , who from the de- sire of being the head of the company associates with low people , and pays all the reckoning ...
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