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A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett.

ce organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army. -- Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] Carlyle. -- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verditer. See Verditer. -- Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copp…

A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

me for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]

Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]

One who works up a "boom". [Slang, U. S.]

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [Slang, U. S.]

The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses. [Slang, U. S.]

A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." Thackeray. To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]

A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides. [Slang]

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

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

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

ation 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.

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

ic 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 pop…