Meaning of dimber-damber | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“No, Jim, I only piked into Deuceaville with a dimber-damber, who couldn't pad the hoof for a single darkman's without his bloss to keep⟳ him from getting pogy.”

“"He'll make⟳ hisself the dimber-damber in hell," declared another.”

“Renter lifted up a tin mug of lime juice and vinegar, and poured it over William's head, and shouted for all to hear⟳: "I, dimber-damber and upright-man, with this gage of bowse, do Stall thee, Crank Cuffin, to the Rogue!..."”

“Not me, Jerry — there 's one a-coming as will tip⟳ you the lay⟳ — an old pal, Jerry, a flaming buck o' the high pad, a reg'lar dimber-damber, a — hist ! 'T is him at last⟳, I think⟳, but ha' your popps ready in case, Jerry.”

“Then standing up in the middle of the fraternity, and directing his face⟳ to the Dimber-Damber, or prince of the gang, he swears, in this manner, as is dictated to him by one of the most experienced:”

“When each gipsy Dimber-Damber Wraps him in a sheet of amber, When the smiling glow-worm skims O'er the ice-berg, singing hymns, When electric organs roar Round sad Staffa's dismal door, and the mermaid seeks her den, Eating oysters — watch⟳ me then.”

“The Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber.”

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