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1. alickadoo, n. View full entry 1961
...A person who is attached to or associated with a rugby game or club but does not play, esp. an administrative official or committee member....
2. Babel, n. View full entry a1529
...A confused or discordant medley of sounds, esp. of voices; a hubbub, a din. Perh. influenced by babble2 in later use....
3. Babylon, n.2 View full entry 1530
...derogatory. The city of Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church; (more generally) the Roman Catholic Church, its institutions, practices, etc....
4. Babylonish, adj. (and n.) View full entry eOE
...Of, from, or relating to the ancient city of Babylon (now in Iraq), or to the ancient Babylonian Empire (hist.). Also: resembling (that of) Babylon or Babylonia. In Old English...
5. Babylonism, n. View full entry 1610
...derogatory. The doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism. See Babylon1. Obs.rare....
6. badge, n. View full entry 1440
...Originally: a heraldic symbol worn as an identifying mark by a knight and his retainers (= cognizance5a; sometimes more fully badge of arms). In later use: any...
7. baffle, v. View full entry 1548
...To subject to public disgrace or infamy; spec. to disgrace a perjured knight with infamy. Obs....
8. ballahoo, n. View full entry 1815
...A type of fast-sailing two-masted schooner. Also used as a term of contempt for a sluggish, slovenly, or ungainly vessel (cf. ballyhoo, ballyhoo of blazes). Now rare...
9. bellow, v. View full entry c1000
...prop. To roar as a bull, or as a cow when excited. (Ordinarily, a cow lows.)...
10. blooter, n. View full entry c1600
...A fool; an oaf, a blunderer; a noisy or babbling person (cf. blatter). Also as a general term of abuse....
11. bluff, adj. View full entry 1627
...Presenting a broad flattened front; esp....
12. bogan, n. View full entry 1985
...An unfashionable, uncouth, or unsophisticated person, esp. regarded as being of low social status....
13. bog-standard, adj. View full entry 1968
...Ordinary, basic, standard; without extra features or modification; unexceptional or uninspired. Cf. box-standard...
14. † boss, n.3 View full entry c1375
...A cask; esp. a small cask; a leathern butt or bottle for wine, etc....
15. † broll, n. View full entry a1325
...Offspring, child; contemptuously, a brat, an ‘imp’, a little wretch....
16. brush, n.5 View full entry 1941
...A girl, a young woman; freq. derogatory Also collect....
17. bum, n.1 View full entry a1387
...‘The buttocks, the part on which we sit’ (Johnson); the posteriors....
18. charver, n.1 View full entry 1846
...A promiscuous woman; a prostitute. Hence: women considered sexually; (also) an act of sexual intercourse with a woman....
19. Chelsea, n. View full entry 1711
...a kind of rolled currant-bun originally made in Chelsea....
20. chime, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A cymbal. Obs....
