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Elgin Courier (Moray, Scot.) 27 Feb. 2/2: I dinna profess [...] to hae the rumgumption needit to fully expound knotty subjects.at rumgumption, n.
Elgin Courier (Moray, Scot.) 27 Feb. 2/2: I dinna profess [...] to hae the rumgumption needit to fully expound knotty subjects. Elgin Courier 23 Apr. 2/2: Paddy [...] said that if the promised doucer was handed over he would give the required information.at doucer, n.
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Elgin Courier 30 Nov. 1/7: The fox-hunting parson [...] who saw with unmuddled brain his flock sink one by one under the table. ‘Drunk!’.at under the table, adj.
Elgin Courier 12 Mar. 2/5: ‘That’s what I call a fair shake,’ as the Lincolnshire man said.at fair shake, n.
Elgin Courier (Scot.) 2 Jan. 4/1: Child’s Dissolving Views [...] That pigeon’s milk is a marketable commodity. That strap-oil is good for sharpening penknives.at pigeon’s milk (n.) under pigeon, n.1
Elgin Courier 9 Feb. 4/6: Hob-a-Nobbing at the Canon’s Mouth [...] the Russians hold up to the French bottles and glasses, as if they invited them to drink each other’s health.at hob nob, v.
Elgin Courier 25 Sept. 3/5: It was ‘hard cheese’ at her time of life to be turned out of her living.at hard cheese (n.) under hard, adj.
Elgin Courier 8 Jan. 2/5: A Free tunker has forgotten to send in his name.at tunker, n.
Elgin Courier 9 Sept. 3/4: A ‘whang doodle,’ hard-shell preacher wound up a flaming sermon [etc.].at hard-shell, adj.
Elgin Courier 9 Sept. 3/4: A ‘whang doodle,’ hard-shell preacher wound up a flaming sermon [etc.].at whangdoodle, n.1
Elgin Courier 8 June 7/4: A takilor, being reproached by a silly fellow as only a ninth part of a man, retorted by saying [etc.].at ninth part of a man, n.
Elgin Courier (Scot.) 31 May 7/5: ‘Snakes!’ you will bellow, ‘how could we have been such ’tarnal fools?’.at snakes (alive)!, excl.
Elgin Courier (Scot.) 31 May 7/5: All fired gonies soft-horned pair, each will you lick? / You everlastin’ dolts, forbear!at soft-horned, adj.
Elgin Courier (Moray, Scot.) 19 Sept. 6/3: Her son was the last whop was what would now be called a ‘whip-the-cat’ tailor, or one who had no shop of his own, but went to the houses of his employers.at whip-the-cat, n.
Elgin Courier 22 Dec. 2/5: he had two wigs [...] The one serene, smiling, powdered [...] The other, an old discoloured, unkept and angry caxon.at caxon, n.
Elgin Courier 20 Apr. 8/3: Dear Sir [...] Your two correspondents ‘A Countryman’ and ‘A Countryman’s Son’ remind me of [...] I am yours, Country Carle.at country, adj.
Elgin Courier 24 Aug. 7/3: Will nobody stop that — double-dashed — little barber’s clerk on the whitey-brown rocking horse? Hold hard!at dashed, adj.
Elgin Courier 24 Aug. 7/3: I say! you — dashed — tallow-faced, herring-gutted — —.at herring-gutted, adj.
Elgin Courier (Scot.) 16 Nov. 5/2: He prefers ‘British electoral gin to Irish Parliamentary whisky’.at parliamentary whisky, n.
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