Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence |
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... nick name for a parson . His brains are in his ballocks , a cant saying to designate a fool . BALUM RANCUM . A hop or dance , where the women are all prostitutes . N. B. The company dance in their birth- day suits . BALSAM , BALSAM ...
... nick name for a parson . His brains are in his ballocks , a cant saying to designate a fool . BALUM RANCUM . A hop or dance , where the women are all prostitutes . N. B. The company dance in their birth- day suits . BALSAM , BALSAM ...
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... nick name for a thresher , but applied to all the servants of a farmer . BANKRUPT CART . A one - horse chaise , said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice , from their being so fre- quently used on Sunday jaunts by extravagant shop ...
... nick name for a thresher , but applied to all the servants of a farmer . BANKRUPT CART . A one - horse chaise , said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice , from their being so fre- quently used on Sunday jaunts by extravagant shop ...
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... nick name for spectacles , and also for the gratuity given to grooms by the buyers and sellers of horses . BARREL FEVER . He died of the barrel fever ; he killed himself by drinking . BARROW MAN . A man under sentence of transportation ...
... nick name for spectacles , and also for the gratuity given to grooms by the buyers and sellers of horses . BARREL FEVER . He died of the barrel fever ; he killed himself by drinking . BARROW MAN . A man under sentence of transportation ...
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... nick - named the black - guards . BLACK JACK . A nick name given to the Recorder by the Thieves . BLACK JACK . A jug to drink out of , made of jacked lea- ther . BLACK JOKE . A popular tune to a song , having for the burden , " Her ...
... nick - named the black - guards . BLACK JACK . A nick name given to the Recorder by the Thieves . BLACK JACK . A jug to drink out of , made of jacked lea- ther . BLACK JOKE . A popular tune to a song , having for the burden , " Her ...
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... nick name for an apothecary . BONE SETTER . A hard - trotting horse . BOOBY , or DOG BOOBY . An awkward lout , clodhopper , or country fellow . See CLODHOPPER and LoUT . A bitch booby ; a country wench . BOOBY HUTCH . A one - horse ...
... nick name for an apothecary . BONE SETTER . A hard - trotting horse . BOOBY , or DOG BOOBY . An awkward lout , clodhopper , or country fellow . See CLODHOPPER and LoUT . A bitch booby ; a country wench . BOOBY HUTCH . A one - horse ...
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