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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Pagina
... liquor . Chirping glass , a cheerful glass , that makes the company chirp like birds in spring . CHIT . An infant or baby . CHITTERLINS . The bowels . There is a rumpus among my bowels , i . e . I have the colic . The frill of a shirt ...
... liquor . Chirping glass , a cheerful glass , that makes the company chirp like birds in spring . CHIT . An infant or baby . CHITTERLINS . The bowels . There is a rumpus among my bowels , i . e . I have the colic . The frill of a shirt ...
Pagina
... liquor immediately after having drunk wine . CINDER GARBLER . A servant maid , from her business of sifting the ashes from the cinders . Custom - house wit . CIRCUMBENDIBUS . A roundabout way , or story . He took such a circumbendibus ...
... liquor immediately after having drunk wine . CINDER GARBLER . A servant maid , from her business of sifting the ashes from the cinders . Custom - house wit . CIRCUMBENDIBUS . A roundabout way , or story . He took such a circumbendibus ...
Pagina
... liquors . COCK PIMP . The supposed husband of a bawd . COCK ROBIN . A soft , easy fellow . COCK - SURE . Certain : a metaphor borrowed from the cock of a firelock , as being much more certain to fire than the match . COCK YOUR EYE ...
... liquors . COCK PIMP . The supposed husband of a bawd . COCK ROBIN . A soft , easy fellow . COCK - SURE . Certain : a metaphor borrowed from the cock of a firelock , as being much more certain to fire than the match . COCK YOUR EYE ...
Pagina
... liquor . COKER . A lie . COKES . The fool in the play of Bartholomew Fair : perhaps a contraction of the word coxcomb . COLCANNON . Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a mortar , and then stewed with butter : an Irish dish . COLD ...
... liquor . COKER . A lie . COKES . The fool in the play of Bartholomew Fair : perhaps a contraction of the word coxcomb . COLCANNON . Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a mortar , and then stewed with butter : an Irish dish . COLD ...
Pagina
... liquor , in imitation of chocolate , made of milk and gingerbread . CONTRA DANCE . A dance where the dancers of the different sexes stand opposite each other , instead of side by side , as in the minuet , rigadoon , louvre , & c . and ...
... liquor , in imitation of chocolate , made of milk and gingerbread . CONTRA DANCE . A dance where the dancers of the different sexes stand opposite each other , instead of side by side , as in the minuet , rigadoon , louvre , & c . and ...
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