Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... thing for hire . AFTER - CLAP . A demand after the first given in has been discharged ; a charge for pretended omissions ; in short , any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end ...
... thing for hire . AFTER - CLAP . A demand after the first given in has been discharged ; a charge for pretended omissions ; in short , any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end ...
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... thing from the beginning . See HOLLOW . ALL NATIONS . A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram ... thing ; he agreed to every thing . AMINADAB . A jeering name for a Quaker . AMES ACE . Within ames ace ; nearly ...
... thing from the beginning . See HOLLOW . ALL NATIONS . A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram ... thing ; he agreed to every thing . AMINADAB . A jeering name for a Quaker . AMES ACE . Within ames ace ; nearly ...
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... thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is proffered , like offering a bandbox for a seat . BANBURY STORY OF A COCK AND A BULL . A round- about , nonsensical story . BANDOG . A bailiff or his follower ; also a very fierce mastiff ...
... thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is proffered , like offering a bandbox for a seat . BANBURY STORY OF A COCK AND A BULL . A round- about , nonsensical story . BANDOG . A bailiff or his follower ; also a very fierce mastiff ...
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... thing , and are generally blest with a pretty family of daughters : who unmake the beds , as fast as they are made by their mothers . BEEF . To cry beef ; to give the alarm . They have cried beef Cant . To be in a man's beef ; to wound ...
... thing , and are generally blest with a pretty family of daughters : who unmake the beds , as fast as they are made by their mothers . BEEF . To cry beef ; to give the alarm . They have cried beef Cant . To be in a man's beef ; to wound ...
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... thing . The kid- dey bounced the swell of the blowen ; the lad bullied the gentleman out of the girl . BOUNCER . A large tuan or woman ; also a great lie . BOUNCING CHEAT . A. bottle ; from the explosion in drawing the cork . Cant ...
... thing . The kid- dey bounced the swell of the blowen ; the lad bullied the gentleman out of the girl . BOUNCER . A large tuan or woman ; also a great lie . BOUNCING CHEAT . A. bottle ; from the explosion in drawing the cork . Cant ...
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