Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence |
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... whipped by the common executioner , for a certain distance : the degree of severity in the execution is left to the discretion of the executioner , who , it is said , has cats of nine tails of all prices . Ham CARTING The punishment ...
... whipped by the common executioner , for a certain distance : the degree of severity in the execution is left to the discretion of the executioner , who , it is said , has cats of nine tails of all prices . Ham CARTING The punishment ...
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... whip - cord , each string having nine knots . CAT'S PAW . To be made a cat's paw of ; to be made a tool or ... WHIPPING , or WHIPPING THE CAT . A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows , vain of their strength , by ...
... whip - cord , each string having nine knots . CAT'S PAW . To be made a cat's paw of ; to be made a tool or ... WHIPPING , or WHIPPING THE CAT . A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows , vain of their strength , by ...
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... whipped ; also smartly poxed or clapped . CLEAR . Very drunk . The cull is clear , let's bite him ; the fellow is very drunk , let's cheat him . Cant . CLEAVER . One that will cleave ; used of a forward or wanton woman . CLEAN , Expert ...
... whipped ; also smartly poxed or clapped . CLEAR . Very drunk . The cull is clear , let's bite him ; the fellow is very drunk , let's cheat him . Cant . CLEAVER . One that will cleave ; used of a forward or wanton woman . CLEAN , Expert ...
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... whipped . Cant . CLYSTER PIPE . A nick name for an apothecary . COACH WHEEL . A half crown piece is a fore coach wheel , and a crown piece a hind coach wheel ; the fore wheels of a coach being less than the hind ones . TO COAX . To ...
... whipped . Cant . CLYSTER PIPE . A nick name for an apothecary . COACH WHEEL . A half crown piece is a fore coach wheel , and a crown piece a hind coach wheel ; the fore wheels of a coach being less than the hind ones . TO COAX . To ...
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... Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders , or Pedlars 14 Abrams , 1 Demanders for Glim- mer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts WOMEN . 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes CRIB ...
... Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders , or Pedlars 14 Abrams , 1 Demanders for Glim- mer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts WOMEN . 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes CRIB ...
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Common terms and phrases
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