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Excerpt from Slang and Its Analogues, Past and Present, Vol. 7: A Dictionary Historical and Comparative of the Heterodox Speech of All Classes of Society for More Than Three Hundred Years, With Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, Etc
II. 47. [he] was stumped and hard up. 48. My trusty Old crony, do stump UP three thousand once more as a loan.
Hood, Tale ofa Trumpet. But common prudence would bid you stump it, For not to enlarge, It's the regular charge At a Fancy Fair for a penny trumpet.
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