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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... fellow , a boaster . BRAINS . If you had as much brains as guts , what a clever fellow you would be ! a saying to a stupid fat fellow . To have some guts in his brains ; to know something . BRAN - FACED . Freckled . He was christened by ...
... fellow , a boaster . BRAINS . If you had as much brains as guts , what a clever fellow you would be ! a saying to a stupid fat fellow . To have some guts in his brains ; to know something . BRAN - FACED . Freckled . He was christened by ...
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... fellow broke open the trunk , and then ran away . BRUSHER . A bumper , a full glass . See BUMPER . BUB . Strong beer . BUBBER . A drinking bowl ; also a great drinker ; a thief that steals plate from public houses . Cant . THE BUBBLE ...
... fellow broke open the trunk , and then ran away . BRUSHER . A bumper , a full glass . See BUMPER . BUB . Strong beer . BUBBER . A drinking bowl ; also a great drinker ; a thief that steals plate from public houses . Cant . THE BUBBLE ...
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... fellow . See HULKEY . BULL CHIN . A fat chubby child . BULL DOGS . Pistols . BULL HANKERS . Persons who over - drive bulls , or fre- quent bull baits . BULL'S EYE . A crown - piece . BULL'S FEATHER . A horn : he wears the bull's feather ...
... fellow . See HULKEY . BULL CHIN . A fat chubby child . BULL DOGS . Pistols . BULL HANKERS . Persons who over - drive bulls , or fre- quent bull baits . BULL'S EYE . A crown - piece . BULL'S FEATHER . A horn : he wears the bull's feather ...
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... fellow . BUMMED . Arrested . BUMPER . A full glass ; in all likelihood from its convexity or bump at the top : some derive it from a full glass for- merly drunk to the health of the pope - au bon pere . BUMPING . A ceremony performed on ...
... fellow . BUMMED . Arrested . BUMPER . A full glass ; in all likelihood from its convexity or bump at the top : some derive it from a full glass for- merly drunk to the health of the pope - au bon pere . BUMPING . A ceremony performed on ...
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... fellow . A blind buzzard : a pur- blind man or woman . BYE BLOW . A bastard . CAB CABBAGE . Cloth , stuff , or silk purloined by taylors from their employers , which they deposit in a place called hell , or their eye : from the first ...
... fellow . A blind buzzard : a pur- blind man or woman . BYE BLOW . A bastard . CAB CABBAGE . Cloth , stuff , or silk purloined by taylors from their employers , which they deposit in a place called hell , or their eye : from the first ...
Parole e frasi comuni
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