1736 Canting Dictionary / T / TOM of Bedlam [person]
the same as Abram-Man. Which See.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Tom of Bedlam in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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