scaldrum dodge
English
Etymology
(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
scaldrum dodge (plural scaldrum dodges)
- (Britain, 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
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary