Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... means a handker- chief . Cant . Any pocket handkerchief except a silk one . CLOUTED SHOON . Shoes tipped with iron . CLOUTING LAY . Picking pockets of handkerchiefs . CLOVER . To be , or live , in clover ; to live luxuriously . Clover ...
... means a handker- chief . Cant . Any pocket handkerchief except a silk one . CLOUTED SHOON . Shoes tipped with iron . CLOUTING LAY . Picking pockets of handkerchiefs . CLOVER . To be , or live , in clover ; to live luxuriously . Clover ...
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... means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tub , which being turn- ed about , agitates and cleanses the linen put into it , with soap and water . DOMINE DO LITTLE . An impotent old fellow . DOMINEER . To reprove or command in an insolent or ...
... means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tub , which being turn- ed about , agitates and cleanses the linen put into it , with soap and water . DOMINE DO LITTLE . An impotent old fellow . DOMINEER . To reprove or command in an insolent or ...
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... means of a platform , which drops from un- der them : this is also called the last drop . See LEAF . See MORNING DROP . DROP A COG . To let fall , with design , a piece of gold or silver , in order to draw in and cheat the person who ...
... means of a platform , which drops from un- der them : this is also called the last drop . See LEAF . See MORNING DROP . DROP A COG . To let fall , with design , a piece of gold or silver , in order to draw in and cheat the person who ...
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... mean to deafen with importunate demands : some derive it from the word donnez , which signifies give . But the true ... means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors ' wages , therefore deemed by the ...
... mean to deafen with importunate demands : some derive it from the word donnez , which signifies give . But the true ... means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors ' wages , therefore deemed by the ...
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... . TO FAG . To beat . Fag the bloss ; beat the wench . Cant . A fag also means a boy of an inferior form or class , who acts as a servant to one of a superior , who is said to fag him , FAS him , he is my fag ; whence ,
... . TO FAG . To beat . Fag the bloss ; beat the wench . Cant . A fag also means a boy of an inferior form or class , who acts as a servant to one of a superior , who is said to fag him , FAS him , he is my fag ; whence ,
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