Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... lame duck , and waddles out of the Alley . See LAME DUCK and BEAR . 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 ...
... lame duck , and waddles out of the Alley . See LAME DUCK and BEAR . 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 ...
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... lame duck ; an Exchange - alley phrase for a stock - jobber , who either cannot or will not pay his losses , or ... DUCKS AND DRAKES . To make ducks and drakes : a school - boy's amusement , practised with pieces of tile , oyster ...
... lame duck ; an Exchange - alley phrase for a stock - jobber , who either cannot or will not pay his losses , or ... DUCKS AND DRAKES . To make ducks and drakes : a school - boy's amusement , practised with pieces of tile , oyster ...
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... ducks and drakes of one's money ; to throw it idly away . DUCK F - CK - R . The man who has the care of the poultry ... lame arm . DUMB - FOUNDED . Silenced , also soundly beaten . DUME GLUTTON . A woman's privities . DUMB WATCH ...
... ducks and drakes of one's money ; to throw it idly away . DUCK F - CK - R . The man who has the care of the poultry ... lame arm . DUMB - FOUNDED . Silenced , also soundly beaten . DUME GLUTTON . A woman's privities . DUMB WATCH ...
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... duck . To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck ; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts , called his differences , on the Stock Exchange , and therefore absents himself from it . WAG . WAR WAG . Anarch ...
... duck . To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck ; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts , called his differences , on the Stock Exchange , and therefore absents himself from it . WAG . WAR WAG . Anarch ...
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... duck . To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck ; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts , called his differences , on the Stock Exchange , and therefore absents himself WAG . from it . Ꮃ Ꭺ Ꭱ WAG . An arch ...
... duck . To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck ; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts , called his differences , on the Stock Exchange , and therefore absents himself WAG . from it . Ꮃ Ꭺ Ꭱ WAG . An arch ...
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