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Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

acilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]

he common whelk. See Buccinum. [Scot.] Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]

buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns.

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility. And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, i…

tion or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [Slang, U.S.]

One who bulldozes. [Slang]

A brisk, dashing fellow. [Slang Obs.] Shak.

A bully. [Slang Obs.] Shak.

e, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

c applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show. [Cant or Slang, U.S.] All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popu…

am lottery. [Written also bunco.] Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]

To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. Stillingfleet.

A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.

frican nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.

Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

To use cabalistic language. [R] Dr. H. More.

collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. Golden cadence of poesy. Shak. If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence." Dr. Guest.

To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. [Prov. or Slang, Eng.] Wright.