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CLAPPERDUDGEON Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CLAPPERDUDGEON is beggar. www.merriam-webster.com
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clapperdudgeon, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
a beggar who worked with a female companion, posing as man and wife and complete with counterfeit marriage licence; he might deliberately poison himself. greensdictofslang.com
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clapperdudgeon - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From clapper + dudgeon. Noun. edit. clapperdudgeon (plural clapperdudgeons). (UK dialectal, archaic) A beggar who would apply blood or sores to his body ... en.wiktionary.org
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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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Clapper-dudgeon. World English Historical Dictionary - WEHD.com
Here he is, and with him—what? a CLAPPER-DUDGEON! That's a good sign, to have the beggar follow him. So near. 3. wehd.com
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Vagrancy, heresy and treason in the 16th century - Nature of crimes
The Clapper Dudgeon, These people cut their skin to make it bleed and then covered it with dirty rags. Some children were deliberately mutilated by their ... www.bbc.co.uk
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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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clapperdudgeon, n. meanings, etymology and more
A cant name for a beggar born; also used as a term of reproach or insult (cf. beggar n. 6a). 1567 These Palliards be called also Clapperdogens. www.oed.com
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Word of the Day: CLAPPERDUDGEON - Lexicophilia
ETYMOLOGY apparently from clapper (the tongue of a bell) + dudgeon (hilt of a dagger): the origin of the appellation is unknown. lexicophilia.com
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Tuesday Word: clapperdudgeon
A clapperdudgeon, or clapper dudgeon, was a type of con artist common during the Elizabethan era. In order to appear as pitiful and deserving of alms as ... 1word1day.livejournal.com
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CLAPPERDUDGEON - WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE PAST
CLAPPERDUDGEON ... from E-TOO: " a cant word for a class of beggars....they travelled in patched cloaks and made artificial sores on their bodies to excite pity." www.wordsandphrasesfromthepast.com
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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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