Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence |
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... guts , what a clever fellow you would be ! a saying to a stupid fat fellow . To have some guts in his brains ; to know something . BRAN - FACED . Freckled . He was christened by a baker , he carries the bran in his face . BRANDY ...
... guts , what a clever fellow you would be ! a saying to a stupid fat fellow . To have some guts in his brains ; to know something . BRAN - FACED . Freckled . He was christened by a baker , he carries the bran in his face . BRANDY ...
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... gut of a sheep , worn by men in the act of coition , to prevent venereal infection ; said to have been invented by one colonel Cundum . These machines were long prepared and sold by a matron of the name of Philips , at the Green ...
... gut of a sheep , worn by men in the act of coition , to prevent venereal infection ; said to have been invented by one colonel Cundum . These machines were long prepared and sold by a matron of the name of Philips , at the Green ...
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... guts cry cupboard ; i . e . I am hungry CUPID , BLIND CUPID . A jeering name for an ugly blind man : Cupid , the god of love , being frequently painted blind . See BLIND CUPID . CUR . A cut or curtailed dog . According to the forestlaws ...
... guts cry cupboard ; i . e . I am hungry CUPID , BLIND CUPID . A jeering name for an ugly blind man : Cupid , the god of love , being frequently painted blind . See BLIND CUPID . CUR . A cut or curtailed dog . According to the forestlaws ...
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... GUTS , A surveyor's chain : so called by farmers , who do not like their land should be measured by their landlords . DEVILISH . Very : an epithet which in the English vulgar language is made to agree with every quality or thing ; as ...
... GUTS , A surveyor's chain : so called by farmers , who do not like their land should be measured by their landlords . DEVILISH . Very : an epithet which in the English vulgar language is made to agree with every quality or thing ; as ...
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... guts warm ; the Devil loves hot tripes . TO FLASH THE HASH . To vomit . " Cant . FLASH KEN . A house that harbours thieves . FLASH LINGO . The canting or slang language . FLASH MAN . A bully to a bawdy house . A whore's bully . FLAT . A ...
... guts warm ; the Devil loves hot tripes . TO FLASH THE HASH . To vomit . " Cant . FLASH KEN . A house that harbours thieves . FLASH LINGO . The canting or slang language . FLASH MAN . A bully to a bawdy house . A whore's bully . FLAT . A ...
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