10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TATTERDEMALLION»
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tatterdemallion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The nest of plays: consisting of three comedies. Viz. The ...
SCENE V. Tatterdemallion to Severn, Trueman, ; - and Johnson. Tatterdemallion.
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Incourager, and Judge of Arts ! §*j||$i<^ Wisest! wisest! wisest! — ay, wisest will ...
2
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words
Nor/. TATTERDEMALLION. A ragged fellow. The pox and piles shall reverence
thee : one firt strikes out another ; and whole families shall main- taine their
tatterdemallion*, with hanging thee out in a string. Rrathwaite't Smoaking Age,
1617, p.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,
1881
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
(1)] tatterdemallion n. [17C-1920s] 1 (UK Und.) a wandering beggar who
deliberately adopts ragged, filthy clothes in the hope of extracting more money
from the kind-hearted. 2 a rascal. (SE tatterdemallion, a person in ragged clothing
] tattle n.
Just then, up from an alley fronting him at right angles, came suddenly, warily, a
tall, sinewy, ill-boding tatterdemallion figure, and, seeing Darrell's face under the
lamp, halted abrupt at the mouth of the narrow passage from which it had ...
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton,
1852
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The Magazine of the beau monde; or, Monthly journal of ...
I knew that he was dying to come, hut to see him here, twenty miles from home,
with eight good miles hefore us hefore we get to a house, and he all in rags and
without a farthing in his pocket — poor tatterdemallion ! — to pay for a hed or a ...
6
The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly
A big tatterdemallion fellow was in the town spaeing fortunes. He had got into the
Bailie's kitchen, and was practising his impositions on the servant girls. He
affected to be dumb, and with various sorts of mummery he was fleecing his
audience ...
Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson,
1902
7
Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects: Dialogues, Poems, ...
Anudder tatterdemallion says, “ Come buy a full chinse Indy muslin, nobbet
sixpence hawpenny a yard.“ Jenny bought yen, an' it was rotten as muck. Then
theer was bits o' things, wi' their neddys, rwoarin' up t' lanes, “ Bleng~kiship
cwoals 1"' ...
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Analysis of the English language. [&c.].
... 222 Tafety, 177 Taffeta, 164 Taffrail, 163 Talisman, 164 Tallow, 222 Talmud,
164 Tamarind, 164 Tambourine, 164 Tantalise, 180 Tantivy, 222 Target, 190
Tarifa, 174 Tariff, 164, 177, 208 Tarn, 174 Task, 162, 223 Tatterdemallion, 209
Tattoo, ...
Isaac Plant Fleming,
1875
... from the circuit judge to the most tatterdemallion ' cull-boy ' at his counter, and a
favorite alike with all — he is obviously the right man in the right place. Bustling
about his store, in a short kersey pea-jacket, his well-worn slouch hat upon the ...
Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick,
1878
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The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon ...
... his Team of Horses and Cart loaden with Corn to our Town to fell, and being
come about half way, he was met by a lusty tatterdemallion rascal that was on
soot, travelling on the Road, hefirst- asked the Countrey-man to give him
something, ...