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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... officer. id. Ex refusals 'to give food to the dying outcast'. accident . An untimely, or accidental, call of nature: coll: 1899. accident-maker . A report dealing with accidents and disasters: London journalists' (–1887). accommodation ...
... officer. id. Ex refusals 'to give food to the dying outcast'. accident . An untimely, or accidental, call of nature: coll: 1899. accident-maker . A report dealing with accidents and disasters: London journalists' (–1887). accommodation ...
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... officer: naval coll: C.19–20. Granville, 'the officers' quarters are in the after-part of the ship'. aft through the hawse-hole . (Of an officer) who has gained his commission by promotion from the lower deck: Navy: mid-C.19–20 ...
... officer: naval coll: C.19–20. Granville, 'the officers' quarters are in the after-part of the ship'. aft through the hawse-hole . (Of an officer) who has gained his commission by promotion from the lower deck: Navy: mid-C.19–20 ...
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... Officer Commanding the Straits Fleet always referred to his chaplain as Ballocks. Often as ballocks the rector. 2. Nonsense: late C.19– 20. Now gen. bollocks, cf. BALLS, and CODS; very rarely with all. ballocky , adj. Naked: c. and low ...
... Officer Commanding the Straits Fleet always referred to his chaplain as Ballocks. Often as ballocks the rector. 2. Nonsense: late C.19– 20. Now gen. bollocks, cf. BALLS, and CODS; very rarely with all. ballocky , adj. Naked: c. and low ...
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... officer taking command of a ship when notabilities visited it: naval: ca 1880. barge-pole . The largest stick in a faggot; hence any large piece of wood. Winchester College, from ca 1850;†. cf. BARBER, n. barge-pole, wouldn't touch with ...
... officer taking command of a ship when notabilities visited it: naval: ca 1880. barge-pole . The largest stick in a faggot; hence any large piece of wood. Winchester College, from ca 1850;†. cf. BARBER, n. barge-pole, wouldn't touch with ...
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... officer who hangs on to the job to which his juniors hope to be appointed': naval: late C.19–20. Bowen. barnacled. , adj. Wearing spectacles: from ca 1690; coll. barnacles . Spectacles: in mid-C.16–17, gen. coloured; in C.18–19, any ...
... officer who hangs on to the job to which his juniors hope to be appointed': naval: late C.19–20. Bowen. barnacled. , adj. Wearing spectacles: from ca 1690; coll. barnacles . Spectacles: in mid-C.16–17, gen. coloured; in C.18–19, any ...
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