Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket EloquenceC. Chappel, 1811 - 221 pagine |
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... playing on fiddles , & c . BLINDMAN'S BUFF . A play used by children , where one being blinded by a handkerchief bound over his eyes , attempts to seize any one of the company , who all endea- vour to avoid him ; the person caught must ...
... playing on fiddles , & c . BLINDMAN'S BUFF . A play used by children , where one being blinded by a handkerchief bound over his eyes , attempts to seize any one of the company , who all endea- vour to avoid him ; the person caught must ...
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... plays with her tail ; also an impotent man , or an eunuch . Tag , rag , and bob - tail ; a mob of all sorts of low people , To shift one's bob ; to move off , or go away . To bear a bob ; to join in chorus with any singers . Also a term ...
... plays with her tail ; also an impotent man , or an eunuch . Tag , rag , and bob - tail ; a mob of all sorts of low people , To shift one's bob ; to move off , or go away . To bear a bob ; to join in chorus with any singers . Also a term ...
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... play booty ; cheating play , where the player purposely avoids winning . BO - PEEP . One who sometimes hides himself , and some- times appears publicly abroad , is said to play at bo - peep , Also one who lies perdue , or on the watch ...
... play booty ; cheating play , where the player purposely avoids winning . BO - PEEP . One who sometimes hides himself , and some- times appears publicly abroad , is said to play at bo - peep , Also one who lies perdue , or on the watch ...
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... play booty , or pur- posely to avoid winning . BRIM . ( Abbreviation of Brimstone . ) An abandoned wo- man ; perhaps ... player . BUNG . A brewer . CoIF . A serjeant at law . GUSSET . A pimp . QUILL . An author . STRING . A fiddler ...
... play booty , or pur- posely to avoid winning . BRIM . ( Abbreviation of Brimstone . ) An abandoned wo- man ; perhaps ... player . BUNG . A brewer . CoIF . A serjeant at law . GUSSET . A pimp . QUILL . An author . STRING . A fiddler ...
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... played off ; and who serves as a butt for all the shafts of wit and ridicule . BUTTER BOX . A Dutchman , from the great quantity of butter eaten by the people of that country . BUTTERED BUN . One lying with a woman that has just lain ...
... played off ; and who serves as a butt for all the shafts of wit and ridicule . BUTTER BOX . A Dutchman , from the great quantity of butter eaten by the people of that country . BUTTERED BUN . One lying with a woman that has just lain ...
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