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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 TỤk . 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 TỤk . A Quakers ' meeting - house . Cant . AWAKE . Acquainted with , knowing the business .
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To ride in any one's old boots ; to marry or keep his cast - off mistress . Booty . To play booty ; cheating play , where the player purposely avoids winning . BO - PEEP . One who sometimes hides himself , and sometimes appears publicly ...
To ride in any one's old boots ; to marry or keep his cast - off mistress . Booty . To play booty ; cheating play , where the player purposely avoids winning . BO - PEEP . One who sometimes hides himself , and sometimes appears publicly ...
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Matthew Buckinger was born without hands and legs ; notwithstanding which he drew coats of arms very neatly , and could write the Lord's Prayer within the compass of a shilling ; he was married to a tall handsome woman , and traversed ...
Matthew Buckinger was born without hands and legs ; notwithstanding which he drew coats of arms very neatly , and could write the Lord's Prayer within the compass of a shilling ; he was married to a tall handsome woman , and traversed ...
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To be like a butcher's dog , i . e . lie by the beef without touching it ; a simile often applicable to married men . BUTCHER's Horse . That must have been a butcher's horse , by his carrying a calf so well ; a vulgar joke on an awkward ...
To be like a butcher's dog , i . e . lie by the beef without touching it ; a simile often applicable to married men . BUTCHER's Horse . That must have been a butcher's horse , by his carrying a calf so well ; a vulgar joke on an awkward ...
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To live like dog and cat ; spoken of married persons who live unhappily together . As many lives as a cat ; cats , according to vulgar naturalists , have nine lives , that is one less than a woman . No more chance than a cat in hell ...
To live like dog and cat ; spoken of married persons who live unhappily together . As many lives as a cat ; cats , according to vulgar naturalists , have nine lives , that is one less than a woman . No more chance than a cat in hell ...
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beat beggars blow breeches called Cant carried cheat child church clothes cock cold common cull derived Devil door draw dressed drink drop drunk expression eyes face fellow figuratively fire formerly French frequently give given hand hanged head horse Irish iron JACK keep kind king lady legs liquor live London look man's married means mouth nick nose officers one's originally perhaps person phrase pick pickpocket piece play pocket practised pretend prison queer rogue saying shilling side signify soldier stand steal story sword tail taken taylor term thieves thing town trick turn vulgar walk watch wench wife woman women young
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| Titolo | Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence |
| Autore | Francis Grose |
| Curatori | Francis Grose, Hewson Clarke |
| Editore | C. Chappel ... sold, 1811 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 28 feb 2006 |
| Lunghezza | 276 pagine |
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