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[UK] H. Brandon ‘Dict. Flash or Cant Lang.’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857) 4: Bonnetter – one who entices another to play.
at bonnetter, n.
[UK] H Brandon ‘Dict. Flash or Cant Lang.’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857).
at case, n.3
[UK] H Brandon ‘Dict. Flash or Cant Lang.’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857).
at case, n.4
[UK] H. Brandon ‘Dict. Flash or Cant Lang.’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857) 162: To Speel the drum to run away with the stolen property.
at speel (on) the drum (v.) under drum, n.3
[UK] H. Brandon ‘Dict. Flash or Cant Lang.’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857).
at family people (n.) under family, n.1
[UK] H. Brandon Dict. of the Flash or Cant Lang. in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857) [note] To Poll – to cheat of one’s share.
at poll, v.
[UK] H. Brandon ‘Dict. Flash or Cant Lang.’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857).
at sheen, n.1
[UK] H. Brandon ‘Dict. Flash or Cant Lang.’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857) 37: Tied up prigging given over thieving.
at tie up, v.1
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at jack (a) dandy, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 38: [Specimen of Flash] Bill had flimped a yack [...] He sent the yack to church [Translation] Bill had hustled a person and obtained a watch [...] The watch he sent to have the works taken out and put into another case.
at church a yack, v.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 37: Three-Quarters of a Peck. Neck [...] ‘Take the measure, Charley, from his three-quarters.’.
at three quarters (of a peck), n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 5: Cain and Abel n. Table.
at Cain and Abel, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at long acre, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at albonized, adj.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at alderman, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at all-hot, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at amputate one’s mahogany, v.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at cat and mouse, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 9: Cows and Kisses Miss, or the ladies.
at cow-and-kisses, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at lath and plaster, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at lean and fat, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at lean and lurch, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at east and south, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at flounder (and dab), n.
[UK] ‘Leary Man’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857) 45: Harris’s [...] Slap Up Tog, And Out And Out Kicksies Builder.
at out-and-out, adj.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at apples (and pears), n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 16: read and write v. Flight. He took to read-and-write.
at read and write, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at rogue (and villain), n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue We will go to frog and toe. Thieves coming up to London with plunder.
at frog and toe, n.
[UK] ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
at oats and chaff, n.
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