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 Bags — Baked.

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ladies who will blush at the word chemise, but who do not scruple to show themselves in public in such a d4colleU state as to sug- gest that only the lower half of that garment has been retained. To " have the bags off," is to be of age and one's own master, to have plenty of money. To have the bags on would surely be a more appropriate metaphor in this instance.

Bags, to take the (athletic), to go hare in a paper chase.

Ba-ha (tailors), bronchitis.

Bai, by (gypsy), a sleeve, a bough.

Bail (Australian Blackfellows' lingo), no, not. The following is a specimen of the pidgin- English stuffed with Blackfel- lows' words used by the whites on stations in their intercourse with the aborigines : —

" Too much big-fellow water, bail ply (fly), come up ; bail pind (find) him," answers the aboriginal, adding, however, the question, "you patter potchum " (eat possum).

" Yohi" (yes), said John, rather doubt- fully, for he is not sure how his stomach will agree with the strange meat. — A. C. Grant.

(Society), to give leg bail and land security, a phrase for run- ning away, decamping.

Baist a snarl (tailors), work up a quarrel.

Bait (Winchester), rage, to be in a bait, or in a "swot," to be

angry, him.

To bait a lad is to teaze

Bait-land (nautical), an old word, formerly used to signify a port where refreshments could be procured. — Admiral Smyth.

Bak, bacht (gypsy), luck. A very common word. Bdktalo, lucky.

" Rya del mandy a panjer." " What for?" "For bai." " For bock, kek— but mandy'll dee it to tute to kin a cigarrus."

" Master give me fiver (5 cents)." " What for?" " For bak." " For bock (beer), no — but I'll give it to you to buy a cigar." — Gypsy Notes in America (MS.).

Bake, to (Winchester), to rest, to enjoy "dolce far'niente;" (com- mon), to fumigate a room.

Baked (Australian), tired out. Slang delights in puns. Because meat put in the oven is said to be baked when it is "done," a man who is " done up," or " done," is said to be baked. This distinctly "slang" use of baked is quite different from baked in the sense of " heated " or " hot," in which even ladies often use it. In the English slang only " hatf-baked" means imbecile.

Baked Spanish (common). A Spanish means a large Spanish onion.

Maria looks very nervous like at this, but told me afterwards if it hadn't been as she tried to forget of the young man, and only to remember there was tripe for supper and a baked Spanish, she'd have fainted right clean away. — Fun: Murdle Visiting.