Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of All Classes of Society for More Than Three Hundred Years. With Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, Etc, Volume 2subscribers only, 1891 |
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AINSWORTH allusion Almanack American BARHAM Broadside Ballad CABBAGE called cards CHALK cheat CHUCK COCK collo colloquial common common).-To COVE CRACK CRIB Crib's Daily Telegraph DEAD DEVIL DICKENS Dict Dictionary drink drunk DUCK ENGLISH SYNONYMS fellow female pudendum FRENCH SYNONYMS G. R. SIMS GERMAN SYNONYMS GROSE HALIBURTON head horse Ingoldsby Legends intj ITALIAN SYNONYMS Jack Jerry Lexicon Balatronicum LIBRARIES STANFORD UNIVERSITY literally London Figaro London Lab Martin Chuzzlewit MATSELL MAYHEW Notes and Queries nyms ONE'S phrase Pickwick Pickwick Papers play Poor popular prison pudendum Punch quot R. H. BARHAM Rogue Rogue's Lexicon SCOTT sense SHAKSPEARE signifies slang SPANISH SYNONYMS STANFORD UNIVERSITY syno term THACKERAY thieves thing tion Tom and Jerry Tongue venery verb verbal phr verbal subs Vocabulum Vulg W. E. HENLEY Winchester College woman word
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Pagina 368 - The parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be FARMED, or, in other words, that he should be despatched to a branch workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poorlaws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing,
Pagina 264 - The gallows. [A corruption of Theodoric, the name of the public hangman at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries.] Now the name of an apparatus, resembling a crane. Also,
Pagina 51 - a city shower (1710). Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they go. . . . Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.]
Pagina 347 - His own HEAD in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting, to put entirely out of the question a very thick coating of powder.
Pagina 347 - This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made ; and it was the more singular in his case because, even admitting, tor the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being ever brought to that pass which will enable a man to
Pagina 154 - Veil, sir,' rejoined Sam, after a short pause, ' I think I see your drift ; and if I do see your drift, it's my 'pinion that you're a COMIN' IT A GREAT DEAL TOO STRONG, as the mail-coachman said to the snow-storm, ven it overtook him.
Pagina 128 - that beautiful feat of fancy sliding which is currently called KNOCKING AT THE COBBLER'S DOOR, and which is achieved by skimming over the ice on one foot and occasionally giving a postman's knock upon it with the other.
Pagina 158 - of which I understand to be a particular species of marbles much prized by the youth of this town), made use of this remarkable expression—' How should you like to have another father?
Pagina 112 - Love may transform me to an oyster ; but I'll take my oath on it, till he hath made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such
Pagina 129 - Service to the knight. Sir Andrew is grown the COCK OF THE CLUB since he left us, and if he does not return quickly will make every mother's son of us commonwealth's men.