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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... town discovering them to be Christians , ordered them to be beheaded , about the year 303 ; from which time they have been the tutelar saints of the shoemakers . CRISPIN'S HOLIDAY . Every Monday throughout the year , but most ...
... town discovering them to be Christians , ordered them to be beheaded , about the year 303 ; from which time they have been the tutelar saints of the shoemakers . CRISPIN'S HOLIDAY . Every Monday throughout the year , but most ...
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... town was not well served by her successors , she , out of a patriotic zeal for the public welfare , returned to her occupation ; of which she gave notice by divers hand - bills , in circulation in the year 1776. Also a false scabbard ...
... town was not well served by her successors , she , out of a patriotic zeal for the public welfare , returned to her occupation ; of which she gave notice by divers hand - bills , in circulation in the year 1776. Also a false scabbard ...
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... town , or prosti- tute ; Drury - lane and its environs were formerly the re- sidence of many of those ladies . DRY BOB . A smart repartee : also copulation without emission ; in law Latin , siccus robertulus . DRY BOOTS . A sly humorous ...
... town , or prosti- tute ; Drury - lane and its environs were formerly the re- sidence of many of those ladies . DRY BOB . A smart repartee : also copulation without emission ; in law Latin , siccus robertulus . DRY BOOTS . A sly humorous ...
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... town , particularly about Water - lane , opposite St. Clement's church , in the Strand , and pretend to deal in smuggled goods , stopping all country people , or such as they think they can impose on ; which they frequently do , by ...
... town , particularly about Water - lane , opposite St. Clement's church , in the Strand , and pretend to deal in smuggled goods , stopping all country people , or such as they think they can impose on ; which they frequently do , by ...
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... town of Lincoln , so extremely active , and so dexterous in his business , that it became a proverb , when a man refused to pay , Why do not you Dun him ? that is , Why do not you set Dun to arrest him ? Hence it became a cant word ...
... town of Lincoln , so extremely active , and so dexterous in his business , that it became a proverb , when a man refused to pay , Why do not you Dun him ? that is , Why do not you set Dun to arrest him ? Hence it became a cant word ...
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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