Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of All Classes of Society for More Than Three Hundred Years. With Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, Etc, Volumen1subscribers only, 1890 |
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allusion ALSATIA Ameri American thieves applied BAMBOOZLE BEAK BEAT BEEF beer BITE BLACK BLOODY BLOW BLUE BONES BOODLE BRASS Broadside Ballad BROWN BROWN BESS BRUMMAGEM BUCK BUFF BULL bully called cheat colloquial colour common corruption Cuthbert Bede Daily Telegraph derivation DICKENS Dict Dictionary drink equivalent expression eyes faire familiar fellow formerly Fortunes of Nigel FRENCH SYNONYMS G. R. SIMS give Grose hence horse Hotten Hudibras intj Jack Sheppard Jerry ladies literally London MAYHEW meaning nautical nickname nyms old cant one's origin person phrase play Poor popu popular properly prostitute quotation quoted Sam Slick SCOTT sense SHAKSPEARE signifies slang sporting steal Stock Subs syno THACKERAY thief thing tion Tom and Jerry Tongue usage verb verbal phr vulgar Winchester College woman word young
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Página 78 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 11 - scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast...
Página 24 - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said,
Página 63 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Página 238 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit, For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Página 256 - ... of Russia duck; worsted yellow stockings; a leathern girdle; and a little black worsted cap, usually carried in the hand. I believe it was the ordinary dress of children in humble life during the reign of the Tudors. We used to flatter ourselves that it was taken from...
Página 364 - But that such a poem should be TOOTHLESS, I still affirm it to be a bull, taking away the essence of that which it calls itself. For if it bite neither the persons nor the vices, how is it a satyr ? And if it bite either, how is it toothless ? So that TOOTHLESS SATYRS, are as much as if he had said TOOTHLESS TEETH c,
Página 326 - ; a good man is a jolly fellow with non-reading men, ergo, a jolly fellow is a brick. It has, however, been pointed out that dedicatory columns of various forms have been found bearing Greek inscriptions, records of the great and virtuous. Some of these were circular and fluted pillars ; but the Athenians are said to have dedicated square columns, so inscribed, which gave rise to the style tetrag-onos oner (Arist Etb,, i.
Página 44 - HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For Death has broached him to. His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft ; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft.
Página 121 - They told me that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the ship's company had no allowance of meat, and that these meagre days were called banyan-days, the reason of which they did not know; but I have since learned they take their denomination from a sect of devotees in some part of the East Indies, who never taste flesh.