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BADGE,

is used in a Canting Sense, for Burning in the Hand or Cheek (as it used to be) as he has got his Badge and piked away; He has been burned in the Hand, &c. and is just set at Liberty.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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BACK'ED
BACON
BADGE
BADGE-COVES
BADGERS
BAGGAGE
BALSOM
A BAM

Nearby:

Badge in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).