Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence |
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... queer game ; to rob on the highway is now a bad mode of act- ing . This observation is frequently made by thieves ; the roads being now so well guarded by the horse patrole ; and gentlemen travel with little cash in their pockets . GAME ...
... queer game ; to rob on the highway is now a bad mode of act- ing . This observation is frequently made by thieves ; the roads being now so well guarded by the horse patrole ; and gentlemen travel with little cash in their pockets . GAME ...
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... queer lamp . The man has a blind or squinting eye . LAND . How lies the land ? How stands the reckoning ? Who has any land in Appleby ? a question asked the man at whose door the glass stands long , or who does not cir- culate it in due ...
... queer lamp . The man has a blind or squinting eye . LAND . How lies the land ? How stands the reckoning ? Who has any land in Appleby ? a question asked the man at whose door the glass stands long , or who does not cir- culate it in due ...
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... queer lay ; i . e . he is in danger . Cant . LAYSTALL . A dunghill about London , on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied ; or , in more technical terms , where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom t - d man ...
... queer lay ; i . e . he is in danger . Cant . LAYSTALL . A dunghill about London , on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied ; or , in more technical terms , where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom t - d man ...
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... queer lock ; he bore but an indifferent character . A lock is also a buyer of stolen goods , as well as the receptacle for them . LOCK HOSPITAL . An hospital for venereal patients . LOCK UP HOUSE . A spunging house ; a public house kept ...
... queer lock ; he bore but an indifferent character . A lock is also a buyer of stolen goods , as well as the receptacle for them . LOCK HOSPITAL . An hospital for venereal patients . LOCK UP HOUSE . A spunging house ; a public house kept ...
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... Queer pins ; ill shapen legs . PIPER . A broken winded horse . Irish . PISCINARIANS . A club or brotherhood , A.D. 1743 . PISS . He will piss when he can't whistle ; he will be hanged . He shall not piss my money against the wall ; he ...
... Queer pins ; ill shapen legs . PIPER . A broken winded horse . Irish . PISCINARIANS . A club or brotherhood , A.D. 1743 . PISS . He will piss when he can't whistle ; he will be hanged . He shall not piss my money against the wall ; he ...
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