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[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: Bellswagger a swaggering Fellow, a hectoring Blade, a Bully.
at bellswagger, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: To Poop, to break Wind backwards softly.
at poop, v.2
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. II n.p.: Tiff, a small Quantity of potable Liquor, as a Tiff of Punch, etc.
at tiff, n.1
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. II n.p.: Tiff, [...] also a small Fit of Anger, etc .
at tiff, n.2
[UK] in Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: arsy-versey, topsy-turvy, preposterously, perversely without order.
at arsey-varsey, phr.
[UK] in Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
at mump, v.
[UK] Bailey Universal; Etym. Eng. Dict.
at pack up one’s alls and be gone (v.) under pack, v.1
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: Cute, sharp, quick-witted.
at cute, adj.
[UK] in Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
at tittery, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: To have an aking tooth at one, to be angry at, to have a mind to rebuke or chastise one.
at have an aching tooth (v.) under tooth, n.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
at blow with a French faggot-stick, n.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
at bing a waste, v.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
at hot and heavy like a tailor’s goose, phr.
[UK] ‘Canting Words and Terms’ in Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
at abram, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
at abram, adj.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict n.p.: abram cove, a lusty Rogue, with hardly any Cloaths on his Back; a Tatterdemallion. [...] abram-men, otherwise called Toms of Bedlam, shabby beggars, patched and trick’d up with Ribbons, Red-Tape, Rags of various Colours; pretending to be besides themselves, to palliate their thefts of Poultry, Linnen, &c. A sort of itinerant Hedge-Robbers, and Strippers of Children, &c.
at abram-man, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: academy, a Bawdy House; a Receptacle for all sorts of Villains, where the young Ones are initiated in the Canting Language, and all manner of cheats and impostures, and sorted into Tribes and Bands, according to their several Capacities for Mischief.
at academy, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: adam tiler, the Comerade of a Pick pocket, who receives stolen Goods or Money, and scours off with them. [Ibid.] n.p.: Tip the cole to adam tiler; i.e. give the Money, Watch, &c. to a running Companion, that the Pick-Pocket may have nothing found upon him, when he is apprehended.
at adam tiler, n.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
at Jack Adams, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: affidavit men, Knights of the Post; mercenary and abandoned Wretches, who used to frequent the Temple and other Inns of Court, in order to be in Readiness to swear anything that was proposed to them.
at affidavit man, n.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
at nappy (ale), n.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
at Sir Timothy (Treat-all), n.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: alsatians the Inhabitants of these two Places [i.e. Higher and Lower Alsatia] broken Tradesmen, extravagant Spendthrifts.
at Alsatian (n.) under Alsatia, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: alsatia the Higher; White Fryars, once a privileged Place, as the Mint was lately; but suppressed, on Account of the notorious Abuses committed in it. [...] alsatia the Lower, the Mint in Southwark.
at Alsatia, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
at altamel, n.
, , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: ambidexter, one that goes snacks in gaming with both Parties.
at ambidexter, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: ambidexter, [...] a Lawyer that takes Fees of Plaintiff and Defendant at once.
at ambidexter, n.
[UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: To amuse [in a Canting sense] [...] to invent strange Tales to delude Shop-keepers and others, from being upon their Guard.
at amuse, v.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
at half-an-ounce, n.
, , , [UK] Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
at yea and nay (man), n.
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