Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-ton, and the Varieties of Life, Forming the Completest and Most Authentic Lexicon Balatronicum Hitherto Offered to the Notice of the Sporting World : for Elucidating Words and Phrases that are Necessarily, Or Purposely, Cramp, Mutative, and Unintelligible, Outside Their Respective Spheres : Interspersed with Anecdotes and Whimsies, with Tart Quotations, and Rum-ones, with Examples, Proofs and Monitory Precepts Useful and Proper for Novices, Flats, and Yokels /by Jon Bee, Esq. ...T. Hughes, 35 Ludgate-Street, 1823 - 192 strán (strany) |
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