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Brewer's: Clapper-dudgeons
Abram-men (q.v.). The clapper is the tongue of a bell, and in cant language the human “tongue.” Dudgeon is a slang word for a beggar.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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