budget
A wallet. To open the budget; a term used to signify the notification of the taxes required by the minister for the expences of the ensuing year; as To-morrow the minister will go to the house, and open the budget.
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budgy
Drunk.
budju
The vagina.
bufe
A dog. Bufe's nob; a dog's head. CANT.
bufe nabber
A dog stealer. CANT.
buff
All in buff; stript to the skin, stark naked.
buff
The bare skin; "stripped to the BUFF."
buff the muffin
to engage in self-pleasuring activity
buff up
to improve or strengthen something
Buffalo Bill
This was the name made famous by William Frederick Cody (1846- 1917), one of the world's greatest showmen. He was born in Iowa and when little more than a boy was a rider of the Pony Express (#.v.). In 1861 he became a scout and guide for the U.S. army, and fought in the Civil War. In 1867 he made a contract to supply the labourers constructing the Kansas Pacific railway with buffalo meat, hence his sobriquet.
buffer
A boxer.
buffer
One that steals and kills horses and dogs for their skins; also an inn-keeper: in Ireland it signifies a boxer.
buffer
A navy term for a boatswain’s mate, one of whose duties it is—or was—to administer the "cat."
Buffer State
A small, self-governing state separating two larger states, and thus tending to prevent hostilities between the two. The term seems to have originated on the north- west frontiers of India.
buffle-head
A stupid or obtuse person.—Miege. German, BUFFELHAUPT, buffalo-headed. Occurs in Plautus’ Comedies made English, 1694.
buffs
The Third Regiment of Foot in the British army. From their facings.
bufl sessions
In U.S.A. this phrase is applied to long talks, among men only, about life in general or some particular problem.
bufo
toad, frog
bug
A nick name given by the Irish to Englishmen; bugs having, as it is said, been introduced into Ireland by the English.
bug off
to go away and leave someone alone
bug storm
a sudden, intense period of criticism or controversy
bug-hunter
A low wretch who plunders drunken men.
bug-walk
A bed.
bug-walk
A coarse term for a bed.
bugaboe
A scare-babe, or bully-beggar.
bugaroch
Comely, handsome. IRISH.
bugfuck
mad; crazy
bugger
A blackguard, a rascal, a term of reproach. Mill the bloody bugger; beat the damned rascal.
bugger off
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
buggins's turn
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
buggish
Crazy.
buggy
A gig, or light chaise. Common term in America and in India, as well as in England.
bughouse
A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc.
Bugs Bunny
Money.
build
Applied in fashionable slang to the make or style of dress, &c. "It’s a tidy BUILD, who made it?" A tailor is sometimes called a "trousers’ BUILDER."
build a better mousetrap
Improve something that already exists
build a case
Gather evidence to support an argument or claim
build bridges
To establish connections or improve relationships between people or groups
build character
Develop strength and personality through experience and challenges
build on sand
To base something on a weak or unstable foundation
build the plane while flying it
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
build up
to increase or strengthen something
built different
Exceptionally talented or skilled
built like a brick outhouse
Very sturdy or strong
built like a brick shipyard
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
built like a brick shithouse
Exceptionally strong or sturdy
bujj
heroin
bulger
Large; synonymous with BUSTER.
bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.
bulk billing
a payment system where a doctor bills a patient's insurance directly
bulker
One who lodges all night on a bulk or projection before old-fashioned shop windows.
bulkies
The police.
bull
An Exchange Alley term for one who buys stock on speculation for time, i.e. agrees with the seller, called a Bear, to take a certain sum of stock at a future day, at a stated price: if at that day stock fetches more than the price agreed on, he receives the difference; if it falls or is cheaper, he either pays it, or becomes a lame duck, and waddles out of the Alley. See LAME DUCK and BEAR.
bull
One who agrees to purchase stock at a future day, at a stated price, but who simply speculates for a rise in public securities to render the transaction a profitable one. Should stocks fall, the BULL is then called upon to pay the difference. See BEAR, who is the opposite of a BULL, the former selling, the latter purchasing—the one operating for a fall, the other for a rise.
bull and boar
A butcher shop or meat market
Bull and Gate
Bull and Mouth. Public- house signs. A corruption of Boulogne Gate or Mouth, adopted out of compliment to Henry VIII, who took Boulogne in 1544. The public-house sign consisting of a plain (or coloured) bull is usually with reference to the cognizance of the house of Clare. The sign of the famous Bull and Mouth Inn in Alders- gate St.
bull butter
bullshit
bull calf
A great hulkey or clumsy fellow. See HULKEY.
bull gravy
Nonsense; bullshit.
bull hankers
Persons who over-drive bulls, or frequent bull baits.
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