Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... DROP IN THE EYE . Almost drunk . DROPPING MEMBER . A man's yard with a gonorrhea . DROP COVES . Persons who practice the fraud of drop- ping a ring or other article , and picking it up before the person intended to be defrauded , they ...
... DROP IN THE EYE . Almost drunk . DROPPING MEMBER . A man's yard with a gonorrhea . DROP COVES . Persons who practice the fraud of drop- ping a ring or other article , and picking it up before the person intended to be defrauded , they ...
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... drops a brass ring , double gilt , which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated , and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed , and ten times more than its real , value . See MONEY DROPPER . FAWNEY . A ring ...
... drops a brass ring , double gilt , which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated , and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed , and ten times more than its real , value . See MONEY DROPPER . FAWNEY . A ring ...
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... dropped in the streets , and found , and educated at the parish expence . FOUSIL . The name of a public house , where the Eccen- trics assemble in May's Buildings , St. Martin's Lane . Fox . A sharp , cunning fellow . Also an old term ...
... dropped in the streets , and found , and educated at the parish expence . FOUSIL . The name of a public house , where the Eccen- trics assemble in May's Buildings , St. Martin's Lane . Fox . A sharp , cunning fellow . Also an old term ...
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... drop coves maced the joskins at the gaff ; the ring - droppers cheated the countryman at the fair . To GAFF . To game by tossing up halfpence . GAG . An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers and thieves , for propping open the mouth ...
... drop coves maced the joskins at the gaff ; the ring - droppers cheated the countryman at the fair . To GAFF . To game by tossing up halfpence . GAG . An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers and thieves , for propping open the mouth ...
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... drop a piece of gold , which they pick up in the presence of some unexperienced person , for whom the trap is laid , this they pretend to have found , and , as he saw them pick it up , they invite him to a public house to partake of it ...
... drop a piece of gold , which they pick up in the presence of some unexperienced person , for whom the trap is laid , this they pretend to have found , and , as he saw them pick it up , they invite him to a public house to partake of it ...
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