scaldrum dodge
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to scald?”) See dodge (“a trick”).
Noun
[edit]scaldrum dodge (plural scaldrum dodges)
- (UK, obsolete, slang) A beggar's trick of burning the body with a mixture of acids and gunpowder, so as to appear to have been injured in an accident.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary