Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence |
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... tricks . Cow's SPOUSE . A bull . Cow's THUMB . Done to a cow's thumb ; done exactly . COXCOMB . Anciently , a fool . Fools , in great families , wore a cap with bells , on the top of which was a piece of red cloth , in the shape of a ...
... tricks . Cow's SPOUSE . A bull . Cow's THUMB . Done to a cow's thumb ; done exactly . COXCOMB . Anciently , a fool . Fools , in great families , wore a cap with bells , on the top of which was a piece of red cloth , in the shape of a ...
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... tricks ; per- haps because they lure the people , as a faulconer does his hawks . Cant . FAYTORS , Or FATORS . Fortune tellers . FAWNEY RIG . A common fraud , thus practised : A fellow drops a brass ring , double gilt , which he picks ...
... tricks ; per- haps because they lure the people , as a faulconer does his hawks . Cant . FAYTORS , Or FATORS . Fortune tellers . FAWNEY RIG . A common fraud , thus practised : A fellow drops a brass ring , double gilt , which he picks ...
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... trick , wheedle , or invention to deceive , FEUTERER . A dog - keeper : from the French vautrier , or vaultrier , one that leads a lime hound for the chase . To FIB . To beat . Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his ...
... trick , wheedle , or invention to deceive , FEUTERER . A dog - keeper : from the French vautrier , or vaultrier , one that leads a lime hound for the chase . To FIB . To beat . Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his ...
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... trick or cheat . He flung me fairly out of it : he cheated me out of it . FLINTS . Journeymen taylors , who on a late occasion refus- ed to work for the wages settled by law . Those who sub- mitted , were by the mutineers styled dungs ...
... trick or cheat . He flung me fairly out of it : he cheated me out of it . FLINTS . Journeymen taylors , who on a late occasion refus- ed to work for the wages settled by law . Those who sub- mitted , were by the mutineers styled dungs ...
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... trick , or contrivance . I will not be fobbed off I will not be thus deceived with false pretences . The fob is also a small breeches pocket for holding a watch . FOG . Smoke . Cant . FOGEY . Old Fogey . A nick name for an invalid ...
... trick , or contrivance . I will not be fobbed off I will not be thus deceived with false pretences . The fob is also a small breeches pocket for holding a watch . FOG . Smoke . Cant . FOGEY . Old Fogey . A nick name for an invalid ...
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