Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... trick to duck some ignorant fellow or landsman , frequently played on board ships in the warm la- titudes . It is thus managed : A large tub is filled with water , and two stools placed on each side of it . Over the whole is thrown a ...
... trick to duck some ignorant fellow or landsman , frequently played on board ships in the warm la- titudes . It is thus managed : A large tub is filled with water , and two stools placed on each side of it . Over the whole is thrown a ...
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... trick played by frolicsome country lasses on their sweethearts , male relations , or visitors . APRIL FOOL . Any one imposed on , or sent on a bootless errand , on the first of April ; which day it is the custom among the lower people ...
... trick played by frolicsome country lasses on their sweethearts , male relations , or visitors . APRIL FOOL . Any one imposed on , or sent on a bootless errand , on the first of April ; which day it is the custom among the lower people ...
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... tricks , the property of one Banks . It is mentioned in Sir Wal- ter Raleigh's Hist . of the World , p . 178 ; also by Sir Ke- nelm Digby and Ben Jonson . BANTLING . A young child . BANYAN DAY , A sea term for those days on which no ...
... tricks , the property of one Banks . It is mentioned in Sir Wal- ter Raleigh's Hist . of the World , p . 178 ; also by Sir Ke- nelm Digby and Ben Jonson . BANTLING . A young child . BANYAN DAY , A sea term for those days on which no ...
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... trick often practised on ignorant country fellows , vain of their strength , by laying a wager with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat . The bet being made , a rope is fixed round the waist of the party to be catted ...
... trick often practised on ignorant country fellows , vain of their strength , by laying a wager with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat . The bet being made , a rope is fixed round the waist of the party to be catted ...
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... laid in different layers , and stewed together . TO CHOUSE . To cheat or trick : he choused me out of it . Chouse is also the term for a game like chuck - farthing . CHRIST- CHRIST - CROSS Row . The alphabet in a horn t ...
... laid in different layers , and stewed together . TO CHOUSE . To cheat or trick : he choused me out of it . Chouse is also the term for a game like chuck - farthing . CHRIST- CHRIST - CROSS Row . The alphabet in a horn t ...
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