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Barley Cap

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To wear the barley cap. To be top-heavy or tipsy with barley-bree. The liquor got into the head.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Barefaced
Barefooted
Bare Poles
Bargain
Bark
Barker
Barktan
Barlaham
Barley
Barley-bree
Barley Cap
Barleycorn
Barley-mow
Barley Sugar
Barmecide
Barmecide’s Feast
Barnabas
Barnabites
Barnaby Lecturers
Barnaby Rudge
Barnacle