clapperdudgeon

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clapperdudgeon
clapperdudgeon arch. Also 6–7 -dogen, -dogeon. [app. f. clapper n. + dudgeon hilt of a dagger: the origin of the appellation is unknown. Collier suggests ‘from his knocking the clapdish he carried with a dudgeon’.] A cant name for a beggar born; also used as a term of reproach or insult (cf. beggar)... Oxford English Dictionary
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flabergullion
† ˈflaberˌgudgion, ˌflaberˈgullion Obs. [The assonance of these forms with clapperdudgeon, slubberdegullion (also slabber-), and the similarity of sense, suggest that they may either be variants of one word, or at least belong to the same group of experiments in the invention of grotesque words.] (S... Oxford English Dictionary
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jark
† jark Old Cant. A seal.1561 J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. 4 A counterfaite Lisence, which they call a Gybe, and the seales they call Iarckes. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 78 They [counterfeit sailors] have alwaies a Counterfeit Pass or License which they call a Gybe, and the Seals thereunto Jarkes. 1818 Sc... Oxford English Dictionary
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crank
▪ I. crank, n.1 (kræŋk) Forms: 1 cranc-, 5–7 cranke, 7– crank. [OE. cranc in cranc-stæf, ME. crank(e, a word rarely exemplified before the 17th c. App. an ablaut-derivative of the vb. crinc-an, cranc, crunc-en, found (but very rare) in OE. as a by-form of cring-an, crang, crung-en to fall in battle,... Oxford English Dictionary
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