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B. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. B subs. (Fenian: obsolete).—1.  See quot.

1   d. 1883.  H. J. BYRON [MS. note to HOTTEN’S Slang Dictionary: now in B. Museum]. The title of a captain in the ‘army of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.’

2   2.  (Harrow).—A standard in Gymnasium the next below A (q.v.).

3   3.  (Felsted).—See A.

4   NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BULL’S FOOT (A BATTLEDORE, A BROOMSTICK, or any alliterative jingle), phr. (old).—To be illiterate or ignorant; to be unable to distinguish ‘which is which’: also affirmatively, see A, BATTLEDORE, CHALK, etc.

5   1401.  Political Poems, II. 57. I know not an A from the wynd-mylne, ne a B FROM A BOLE FOOT.

6   1553–87.  FOXE, Acts and Monuments, II. 474. He KNEW NOT A B FROM A BATTLEDORE nor ever a letter of the book.

7   1592.  NASHE, Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Divell, 30b. Now you TALKE OF A BEE. ILE TELL YOU A TALE OF A BATTLEDORE and write in prayse of vertue. Ibid. (1599), Lenten Stuffe (1885), v. 197. EVERY MAN CAN SAY BEE TO A BATTLEDORE and write in prayse of Vertue.

8   1609.  DEKKER, The Guls Horne-booke, 3. You shall not neede to buy bookes; no, scorne to DISTINGUISH A B FROM A BATTLEDORE.

9   1613.  KING, Halfepennyworth of Wit, ‘Dedication.’ Simple honest dunce, as I am, that CANNOT SAY B TO A BATTLEDORE, it is very presumptuously done of me to offer to hey-passe and repasse it in print so.

10   1621.  MONTAGU, Diatribæ, 118. The clergy of this time were … NOT ABLE TO SAY BO TO A BATTLEDORE.

11   1630.  TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), ‘Dedication.’ For in this age of criticks are such store, That OF A B WILL MAKE A BATTLEDOOR. Ibid., ‘Dedication’ to Odcomb’s Complaint. To the gentlemen readers that UNDERSTAND A B FROM A BATTLEDOOR.

12   1663.  HOWELL, English Proverbs, 16. He KNOWETH NOT A B. FROM A BATTLEDOOR.

13   1672.  RAY, Proverbs, s.v.

14   1677.  G. MIEGE, Dictionary, French and English, 128. BATTLEDORE … formerly a term for a hornbook, and hence no doubt arose the phrase TO KNOW A B FROM A BATTLEDORE.

15   1846.  BRACKENRIDGE, Modern Chivalry, 43. There were members who SCARCELY KNEW B FROM A BULL’S-FOOT.

16   1877.  PEACOCK, Manly (Lincolnshire) Glossary, s.v. BATTLEDOOR. He does N’T KNOW HIS A.B.C. FRA A BATTLEDOOR.

17   1884.  W. BLACK, Judith Shakespeare, xxi. Fools that SCARCE KNOW A B FROM A BATTLEDORE.

18   B FLAT (or B), subs. phr. (common).—A bed bug; a NORFOLK HOWARD (q.v.): cf. F SHARP.

19   1853.  DICKENS, Household Words xx. 326. A stout negro of the flat back tribe—known among comic writers as B FLATS.

20   1867.  Cornhill Magazine, April, 450. That little busy B which invariably improves the darkness at the expense of every offering traveller.

21   1881.  T. HUGHES, Rugby, Tennessee, 58. An insect suspiciously like a British B FLAT.

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