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The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1997-06-30 | Author:Ambrose Bierce [Bierce, Ambrose]

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms July 26,2014 )
Wha's Like Us? by Chris Robinson
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

6 Lust Than lichery, that lathly cors, Come berand lyk a bagit hors; And Idilnes did him leid; Thair wes with him ane vgly sort And mony stynkand fowll tramort ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms July 23,2014 )
Scottish Weather (Say it in Scots!) by Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-12 | Author:Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson [Robinson, Chris]

Flan − gust of wind, especially one blowing smoke down a chimney, back draught; squall. As the following quotations show, flans are not good for housewives, sailors or gardeners. A ...
( Category: Vocabulary July 23,2014 )
Scottish Wildlife by Chris Robinson
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

3 Wee Beasts And lat no small beistis suffir skaith [harm] na skornis This quotation from William Dunbar, writing at the beginning of the sixteenth century, makes him sound like ...
( Category: Linguistics July 23,2014 )
The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Francis Grose [Francis Grose]

K Kate A picklock. ‘’Tis a rum kate’, it is a clever picklock. Keel bullies Men employed to load and unload the coal vessels. Keelhauling A punishment in use among ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms April 19,2014 )
De listige slang by Peter Tremayne
epub |nld | | Author:Peter Tremayne

Fidelma vroeg zich af of abdis Draigen dat lied expres had gekozen. De woorden waren eenvoudig. 'De gezegende gemeenschap van Beara, gesticht op vast Geloof, verfraaid met hoop op redding, ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms March 24,2014 )

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