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Essex Standard 24 Dec. 3/3: It now appeared all holiday at Peckham with the Nimrods, but after a trifling check the hunt again rallied.at all holiday at Peckham under Peckham, n.
Essex Standard 24 Dec. 3/3: It now appeared all holiday at Peckham with the Nimrods, but after a trifling check the hunt again rallied. Essex Standard 20 Oct. 2/2: Our Startford Friend is mistaken. It was not an Essex Calf, but a Royston Crow, that made an attempt at a speech against Mr Baring, and got so shockingly laughed at.at Essex calf (n.) under Essex, adj.
Essex Standard 15 Aug. 4/2: What do you substitute? Tea, or lemonade, or pop?at pop, n.1
Essex Standard 23 Oct. 4/4: I cocks my eye on the floor and there I seed his umbreller [...] so I picks it up and cuts out arter him.at cut out, v.3
Essex Standard 22 May 2/2: Stinkomalee — A Song. On Cam’s or Isis’ oozy beds / Old Alma Maters hide your heads, / Lest ye behold your glories undone / By our new fangled scheme in London / [...] / Stinkomalee shall leave behind / The world of science of each kind / [...] / Stinko, Stinko, Stinkomalee!at Stinkomalee, n.
Essex Standard 30 Aug. 4/6: It’s a low, blackguard, dirty, mean action.at blackguard, n.
Essex Standard 30 Aug. 4/6: You might have [...] bought it and give your note, and cut stick afore the note became due.at cut (one’s) stick(s), v.
Essex Standard 8 Nov. 2/4: Though, at the present moment, he was funking, he had not had [etc.].at funk, v.2
Essex Standard 30 Aug. 4/6: You might have traded with him and got it for half nothin’ as some of our importint [sic] merchants sew up the soft-horned British.at soft-horned, adj.
Essex Standard 8 Nov. 2/4: Another young gentleman, an éleve of the muffin-cap school.at muffin, n.1
Essex Standard 30 Aug. 4/6: You might have traded with him and got it for half nothin’ as some of our importint [sic] merchants sew up the soft-horned British.at sew up, v.
Essex Standard 16 Feb. 2/6: A gallant knight of the awl [...] wooed and won a buxom widow.at ...the awl under knight of the..., n.
Essex Standard 8 Jan. 3/6: Any Old Clo’ [...] everywhere [we] hear on behalf of the half-clad poor the cry — ‘Any old clo’’.at old clo, n.
Essex Standard 28 Mar. 3/5: There were a few rum old files.at file, n.1
Essex Standard 18 Feb. 4/7: An American paper says this phalanx consisted chiefly of ‘the dead rabbit, the plug-uglies [...] and the short-boys’.at short boy (n.) under short, adj.1
Essex Standard 13 Apr. 2/2: The people of Ireland have long had the awful realities of Popery in their midst [...] the real thing, and no pretence whatever.at real thing, the, n.
Essex Standard 8 Nov. 2/5: Our contemporary has ventured upon a shot in the dark.at shot in the dark (n.) under shot, n.1
Essex Standard 23 Apr. 8/3: Dissenters and others [...] think dancing sinful, and cards ‘devil’s playthings’.at devil’s playthings (n.) under devil, n.
Essex Standard 19 July 6/6: The favourite pastime of some of these gentry [...] is to go for what they term a two-of-gin crawl, which means flitting from pub to pub.at gin crawl (n.) under gin, n.4
Essex Standard 26 Feb. 4/3: Anyone who knows what a tough-fought game is, will hardly agree with the idea that it is a ‘lardy-dardy’ amusement.at lardy-dardy, adj.
Essex Standard 16 Apr. 3: ‘Skilly and toke for hever!’ cried our Office Boy.at skilly and toke (n.) under skilly, n.1
Essex Standard 26 Apr. 6/1: An Essex Calf. Essex, you say, is famed for calves: / We thank you really for your pains, / For thus you show on our behalves, / We’re famous most for head and brains.at Essex calf (n.) under Essex, adj.
Essex Standard 21 Apr. 7/1: I was told by Johnny, the bum-boat man at Malta, that [etc.].at bum-boat, n.
Essex Standard 30 June 2/6: Ah, this is too too — it is too utterly too!at too utterly too (too), adj.
Essex Standard 28 Dec. 7/2: I went in with a pail and some meal for the grunters.at grunter, n.
Essex Standard 28 Dec. 6/3: He had turned sharply on his son and said ‘Shut yer tater-trap’.at tater-trap (n.) under tater, n.
Essex Standard 24 |une 2/8: I plead guilty [...] I ain’t hung anybody. Whoa Emma! You don’t get a trial here.at whoa, Emma, phr.
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