dimber-damber
Collocations
4ADJ.
gipsy
VERB + DIMBER-DAMBER
face, hear, make
DIMBER-DAMBER + NOUN
pad, prince, upright-man
PREP.
in, with, with
Definitions
noun
Alternative form of dimber damber.
No, Jim, I only piked into Deuceaville with a dimber-damber, who couldn't pad the hoof for a single darkman's without his bloss to keep him from getting pogy.
"He'll make hisself the dimber-damber in hell," declared another.
noun
Alternative form of dimber damber.
Then standing up in the middle of the fraternity, and directing his face to the Dimber-Damber, or prince of the gang, he swears, in this manner, as is dictated to him by one of the most experienced:
When each gipsy Dimber-Damber Wraps him in a sheet of amber, When the smiling glow-worm skims O'er the ice-berg, singing hymns, When electric organs roar Round sad Staffa's dismal door, and the mermaid seeks her den, Eating oysters — watch me then.
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6No, Jim, I only piked into Deuceaville with a dimber-damber, who couldn't pad the hoof for a single darkman's without his bloss to keep him from getting pogy.
Wiktionary"He'll make hisself the dimber-damber in hell," declared another.
WiktionaryRenter lifted up a tin mug of lime juice and vinegar, and poured it over William's head, and shouted for all to hear: "I, dimber-damber and upright-man, with this gage of bowse, do Stall thee, Crank C
WiktionaryThen standing up in the middle of the fraternity, and directing his face to the Dimber-Damber, or prince of the gang, he swears, in this manner, as is dictated to him by one of the most experienced:
WiktionaryWhen each gipsy Dimber-Damber Wraps him in a sheet of amber, When the smiling glow-worm skims O'er the ice-berg, singing hymns, When electric organs roar Round sad Staffa's dismal door, and the mermai
WiktionaryThe Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber.
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