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[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 19: Jack-a-dandy – a little impertinent fellow.
at jack-a-dandy, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at abbess, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at abbot, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 3: Abram, to sham, – to slum, to pretend sickness.
at sham abram, v.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 3: Abram Cove, a naked or poor man. [...] Abram men, fellows dressing themselves in various rags, old ribbons, fox tails, begging in the streets, pretending to be mad.
at abram-man, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 3: Abram Cove, a naked or poor man, a sturdy beggar in rags.
at abram-man, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 3: Academician – a scholar at an academy.
at academician, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 3: Academician – [...] a whore at a brothel.
at academician, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at academy, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at acquainted, adj.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at adam tiler, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at adam tiler, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at adam, n.1
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 18: Jack Adams – a muff, stupid fellow.
at Jack Adams, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at alderman in chains (n.) under alderman, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at alive, adj.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 3: All set – desperate fellows, ready for any kind of mischief.
at all set, adj.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 3: All out, the reckoning drank out, ‘How stands the account ’twixt me and vengeance’.
at all out, adj.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 32: String, to – to impose on a person’s belief by some joke or lie.
at string (along), v.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at ambidexter, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at amen-curler (n.) under amen, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at putty and soap, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at six-and-eightpence, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at angelic, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at angler, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at angling-cove, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at anointed, adj.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 3: Ark ruffians – rogues who in conjunction with watermen sometimes rob and murder on the water. Ack pirates – fresh water theives [sic] who steal on navigable rivers.
at ark-ruff, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at arm-props (n.) under arm, n.
[UK] G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
at astronomer, n.
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