Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence |
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... dram - shop , collected in a vessel into which the drainingsof the bottles and quartern pots are emptied . ALLS . The five alls is a country sign , representing five hu- man figures , each having a motto under him . The first is a king ...
... dram - shop , collected in a vessel into which the drainingsof the bottles and quartern pots are emptied . ALLS . The five alls is a country sign , representing five hu- man figures , each having a motto under him . The first is a king ...
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... dram drinker . Cant . BINGO MORT . A female dram drinker . Cant . BINNACLE WORD . A fine or affected word , which sailors jeeringly offer to chalk up on the binnacle . BIRD AND BABY . The sign of the eagle and child . BIRD - WITTED ...
... dram drinker . Cant . BINGO MORT . A female dram drinker . Cant . BINNACLE WORD . A fine or affected word , which sailors jeeringly offer to chalk up on the binnacle . BIRD AND BABY . The sign of the eagle and child . BIRD - WITTED ...
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... drams , & c . commonly rowed by a woman ; a kind of floating chandler's shop . BUM FODDER . Soft paper for the ... dram ; strictly speaking , to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed . BUNT . An apron . BUNTER . A low dirty ...
... drams , & c . commonly rowed by a woman ; a kind of floating chandler's shop . BUM FODDER . Soft paper for the ... dram ; strictly speaking , to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed . BUNT . An apron . BUNTER . A low dirty ...
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... dram . Sea wit . CANTICLE . A parish clerk . CANTING . Preaching with a whining , affected tone , perhaps a corruption of chaunting ; some derive it from Andrew Cant , a famous Scotch preacher , who used that whining manner of ...
... dram . Sea wit . CANTICLE . A parish clerk . CANTING . Preaching with a whining , affected tone , perhaps a corruption of chaunting ; some derive it from Andrew Cant , a famous Scotch preacher , who used that whining manner of ...
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... dram of any spirituous 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 ...
... dram of any spirituous 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 ...
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a-se allusion appellation bailiff bawdy-house beat beef beer beggars blow bottle 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 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 Pot valiant 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 Tyburn venereal venereal disease vulgar wench whipped whore wife wine woman women word young