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Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for brandy. Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for shandy.
Blood and sand is slang for menstruation.
Snouts (Cigarettes). ere mate, got any ins and outs? (See Salmon and Trout)
Hare and Hound is London Cockney rhyming slang for a round of drinks (round).
Burk is British slang for a fool.
Black box is British slang for a woman wearing a burka.
Burke and Hare is London Cockney rhyming slang for a chair.
Hand and fist is London Cockney rhyming slang for very drunk, intoxicated (pissed).
Black pillar box is British slang for a Muslim woman wearing a burka.
Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. A mild and antiquated curse.
Rain. Any more pleasure and we'll be swimming.
Sand and canvas is nautical slang for clean thoroughly.
Soap. Where's the faith and hope, I wanna wash me 'ands
Back of Bourke is Australian slang for anywhere far away.
An idiot. Local adaptation of the UK "berk" because of "Wills and Burke", two early Australian explorers ... who unfortunately got lost... and died.
An uncertain outlying area beyond the outback town of Bourke in the state of New South Wales. See also Whoop Whoop
Intimate, familiar, closely united as a hand and its glove.
Noun. See 'berk'.
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conj.
It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
n.
A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.
conj.
In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
adv.
Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
n.
A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.
v. t.
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
n.
An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
n.
A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
conj.
If; though. See An, conj.
n.
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
n.
A kind of bazaar.
v. t.
To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
a. & adv.
Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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an.
Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.
conj.
A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
v. t.
An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.
n.
An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.
v. t.
To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
imp. & p. p.
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