subs. (common).—1.  Thick soup. (Because it sticks to the ribs.)

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  ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—Deferred stock; belly-gum; giblets-twist; gut-concrete; rib-tickler; stick-in-the-ribs.

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  FRENCH SYNONYMS.—La menêtre (thieves’); la lavasse (= a mess of pot liquor); la laffe (thieves’); la jaffe (popular); l’ordinaire (popular: soup and boiled beef at an ordinary); le fond d’estomac (= thick soup); la mousse; la mouillante (= the moistener).

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  GERMAN SYNONYMS.—Jauche; Polifke.

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  2.  (common).—Gonorrhœa.

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