Barrikin

jargon, speech, or discourse; “We can’t tumble to that BARRIKIN ,” i.e. , we don’t understand what he says. “Cheese your BARRIKIN ,” shut up. Miege calls it “a sort of stuff;” Old French , BARACAN . Bash , to beat, thrash; “ BASHING a dona,” beating a woman; originally a provincial word, applied to the practice of beating walnut trees, when in bud, with long poles, to increase their productivene . Hence the West country proverb— “A woman, a whelp, and a walnut tree, The more you BASH ’em, the better they be.” The word BASH , among thieves, signifies to flog with the cat or birch. The worst that can happen to a brutal ruffian is to receive “a BASHING in, and a BASHING out,”—a flogging at the commencement and another at the close of his term of enforced virtue.