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MACCARONI . An Italian paste made of flour and eggs. Also a fop: which name arose from a club, called the Maccaroni Club, instituted by some of the most dressy travelled gentlemen about town, who led the fashions; whence a man foppishly dressed, was supposed a member of that club, and by contraction styled a Maccaroni.
MACE COVE . A swindler, a sharper, a cheat. On the mace; to live by swindling.
MACHINES . Mrs. Phillips's ware. See CUNDUM.
MACKEREL . A bawd: from the French maquerel. Mackerel-backed; long-backed.
MAD TOM . or TOM OF BEDLAM, otherwise an Abram Man. A rogue that counterfeits madness. CANT.
MADAM . A kept madam; a kept mistress.
MADAM RAN . A whore. CANT.
MADE . Stolen. CANT.
MADGE . The private parts of a woman.
MADGE CULLS . Sodomites. CANT.
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