Lexicon Balatronicum. A dictionary of Buckish slang, University wit, and Pick Pocket eloquence. ... Altered and enlarged ... by a member of the Whip Club1811 |
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... dressed . The cull equipped me with a brace of meggs ; the gentleman furnished me with a couple of guineas . ESSEX LION . A calf ; Essex being famous for calves , and chiefly supplying the London markets . ESSEX STILE . A ditch ; a ...
... dressed . The cull equipped me with a brace of meggs ; the gentleman furnished me with a couple of guineas . ESSEX LION . A calf ; Essex being famous for calves , and chiefly supplying the London markets . ESSEX STILE . A ditch ; a ...
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... DRESSED , with more rags than ribands . FART . He has let a brewer's fart , grains and all ; said of one who has bewrayed his breeches . Piss and fart , Sound at heart . Mingere cum bumbis , Res saluberrima est lumbis . I dare not trust ...
... DRESSED , with more rags than ribands . FART . He has let a brewer's fart , grains and all ; said of one who has bewrayed his breeches . Piss and fart , Sound at heart . Mingere cum bumbis , Res saluberrima est lumbis . I dare not trust ...
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... dressing any suppers on a Friday . TO FRIG . Figuratively used for trifling . FRIG PIG . A trifling , fiddle - faddle fellow . FRIGATE . A well - rigged frigate ; a well - dressed wench . FRISK . To dance the Paddington frisk ; to be ...
... dressing any suppers on a Friday . TO FRIG . Figuratively used for trifling . FRIG PIG . A trifling , fiddle - faddle fellow . FRIGATE . A well - rigged frigate ; a well - dressed wench . FRISK . To dance the Paddington frisk ; to be ...
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... dressed man . Mung kiddey . Mung the gorger ; beg child beg , of the gentle- mán . GOSPEL SHOP . A church . GOREE . Money , chiefly gold : perhaps from the traffic carried on at that place , which is chiefly for gold dust . Cant . GOR ...
... dressed man . Mung kiddey . Mung the gorger ; beg child beg , of the gentle- mán . GOSPEL SHOP . A church . GOREE . Money , chiefly gold : perhaps from the traffic carried on at that place , which is chiefly for gold dust . Cant . GOR ...
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... dressed , is said to look like a hog in armour . To hog a horse's mane ; to cut it short , so that the ends of the hair stick up like hog's bristles . Jonian hogs ; an appellation given to the members of St. John's College , Cambridge ...
... dressed , is said to look like a hog in armour . To hog a horse's mane ; to cut it short , so that the ends of the hair stick up like hog's bristles . Jonian hogs ; an appellation given to the members of St. John's College , Cambridge ...
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a-se allusion appellation bailiff bawdy-house beat beef beer beggars blow bottle BOX THE JESUIT brandy breeches BROWN BESS bull bully called Cambridge Cant cant language canting crew cheat child clothes cock cove cuckold cull darkmans Devil dice DOG LATIN dram drink drunk Exchange Alley eyes fellow flash Fleet prison formerly French frequently gallows gentleman girl give guinea guts hand hanged head highwayman horse Irish JACK jocular king's lame duck legs link-boy liquor married mistress MORT mouth Newgate nick name nose officers one's person pickpocket piece pillory play pocket practised pretend prison prostitute QUEER rogue sailors saying Sea phrase Sea term sham sharper signify soldier steal story sword tail taylor thief thieves thing trick venereal venereal disease vulgar wench whipped whore wife wine woman women word young