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Bulk. World English Historical Dictionary

Bulk. 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. Bulk subs. (old).—See quots.: also BULKER: see FILE and BULKER, sense 2.

1   3.  See quots., and FILE.

2   1669.  The Nicker Nicked, in Harleian Miscellany (ed. PARK), II., 108. BULKER occurs in a list of names of thieves.

3   1674.  R. HEAD, Canting Academy, 35. BULK and File. The one jostles you, whilst the other picks your pocket.

4   1678.  Four for a Penny, in Harleian Miscellany (ed. PARK), IV., 147. He is the treasurer of the thieves’ exchequer, the common fender of all BULKERS and shop-lifts in the town.

5   c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BULK and File, c. one jostles while the other Picks the Pocket.

6   d. 1704.  T. BROWN, Works, iii., 60. In comparison of whom (cheating gamesters) the common BULKERS and pickpockets are a very honest society.

7   1725.  A New Canting Dictionary. BULK, an assistant to a File or Pickpocket, who jostles a Person up against the Wall, while the other picks his Pocket.

8   1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. BULK and file, two pickpockets; the BULK jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.

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