The Routledge Dictionary of Historical SlangRoutledge, 2003. 9. 2. - 1066페이지 Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. |
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... BLOOD: late C.16–17. Greene; Beaumont & Fletcher. Anguagela . Language: central s. (–1909); ob., as all central s. is. angular party . A gathering or social group odd in number: coll, from ca 1870; ob. Animal . The Elephant and Castle ...
... BLOOD: late C.16–17. Greene; Beaumont & Fletcher. Anguagela . Language: central s. (–1909); ob., as all central s. is. angular party . A gathering or social group odd in number: coll, from ca 1870; ob. Animal . The Elephant and Castle ...
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... blood, have at least two . To be of mixed parentage: Anglo-Indian coll (–1886). cf. COFFEE-COLOUR. Anne's fan , properly Queen Anne's fan. Thumb to nose and fingers outspread; intensified by twiddled fingers or by addition of other hand ...
... blood, have at least two . To be of mixed parentage: Anglo-Indian coll (–1886). cf. COFFEE-COLOUR. Anne's fan , properly Queen Anne's fan. Thumb to nose and fingers outspread; intensified by twiddled fingers or by addition of other hand ...
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... blood. Aristotle . A bottle: rhyming s.: late C.19–20; ob. ark *, see ARKMAN. 2. A barrack-room chest: military coll (–1903); ob. A survival ex S.E. ark and win(n)s *. A sculler; a row-boat; c.: late C.18–mid 19. See ARKMAN. ark-floater ...
... blood. Aristotle . A bottle: rhyming s.: late C.19–20; ob. ark *, see ARKMAN. 2. A barrack-room chest: military coll (–1903); ob. A survival ex S.E. ark and win(n)s *. A sculler; a row-boat; c.: late C.18–mid 19. See ARKMAN. ark-floater ...
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... blood-and-thunder tale. ca 1860–1900. awful , adj. A catch-intensive. Apparently C.18 Scottish, then U.S. (see Bartlett), and ca 1840 adopted in England. Lamb, 1834: 'She is indeed, as the Americans would express it, something awful ...
... blood-and-thunder tale. ca 1860–1900. awful , adj. A catch-intensive. Apparently C.18 Scottish, then U.S. (see Bartlett), and ca 1840 adopted in England. Lamb, 1834: 'She is indeed, as the Americans would express it, something awful ...
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... >, by 1870, S.E.; ob. 2. In boxing slang, ca 1860–90, blood. cf. CLARET. Ex the Duke of Beaufort's seat of that name. The former sense has suggested the latter. baffaty . Calico: drapery-trade s. (–1864); ob. Ex S.E. baft, A-Z 165.
... >, by 1870, S.E.; ob. 2. In boxing slang, ca 1860–90, blood. cf. CLARET. Ex the Duke of Beaufort's seat of that name. The former sense has suggested the latter. baffaty . Calico: drapery-trade s. (–1864); ob. Ex S.E. baft, A-Z 165.
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