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Esteemed Cant and Victorian Argot
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- 1. To impose upon with falsehoods or nonsense in slang
- 2. A card game often slangily referenced, also meaning a sly trick
- 3. A quick move or a trick, also early slang for someone quick on the uptake
- 5. Old-timey term for insincere or nonsensical speech
- 7. A clumsy or foolish person, a term of Victorian disparagement
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- 4. Describes lively or jaunty behavior, sometimes sarcastic
- 6. Coined Victorian-inspired term for specialized or obscure speech
- 8. Victorian’s polite word for pointless or trivial talk
- 9. An insult for a clumsy or silly person
- 10. Fanciful or impossible idea, often used to lampoon grand claims
- 11. Slang for a street sweeper’s tool or the sweeper themselves
- 12. Victorian trickster's jargon for deceptive nonsense
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