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Crim.-Con. Gaz. 20 Oct. 70/3: Him observe dat ‘what shocking bad hat’ gib way to ‘flare up’ and ‘all around him way’ make way for ‘who am you’.at all around my hat, phr.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 20 Oct. 70/3: Him observe dat ‘what shocking bad hat’ gib way to ‘flare up’ and ‘all around him way’ make way for ‘who am you’. Crim.-Con. Gaz. 17 Nov. 100/3: ‘Arrah, blood and oons [...] what religion are you following?’.at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 3 Nov. 87/2: Mass Denham say to him — ‘What am your name?’ — ‘Ragged a— Bill’ say de chap.at ragged-arsed, adj.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 10/1: From [...] the general tenor of her conduct, he flattered himself that she was come-at-able.at come at, v.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 22 Sept. 35/3: ‘I’m sure I carried nothing out with me but my Work-bag.’ ‘It was your Work-bag we toasted,’ said the Colonel [...] ‘as it is so fancifully embroidered’.at bag, n.1
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 24 Nov. 110/3: As to ‘belly-timber,’ the Sunday’s joints served us till Thursday, and eggs and bacon, or bread and cheese, eked out the remaining days of the week.at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 1 Sept. 24/3: We hear of his being in Giltspur-street Compter [...] and the said Vander in the next box blind drunk.at box, n.1
Crim. Con. Gaz. 25 Aug. 2/3: [heading] Box Lobby Loungers — No. 1 Mr Cornelius Rivers [...] Whenever we see such box-lobby loungers, we feel inclined to kick them downstairs.at box-lobby puppy (n.) under box, n.1
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 29 Dec. 145/3: Hamlet the Jeweller [...] abusing a jew boy for ranging sticks for sale aganst the closed door of his premises.at Jew boy, n.
Crim. Con. Gaz. 25 Aug. 2/3: ‘Halloa you quaker, how are you, old broadbrim?’.at broadbrim (n.) under broad, adj.
Crim.-Con. Gaz 1 Sept. 22/2: Now Brush with Mrs Brush a brush make take, / And brush her brush , and little brushes make.at brush, n.4
Crim.-Con. Gaz 1 Sept. 22/2: Now Brush with Mrs Brush a brush make take, / And brush her brush, and little brushes make.at have a brush with a woman (v.) under brush, n.2
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 15 Dec. 131/3: ‘You are drunk now.’ ‘No, your honour, only half seas over. I can see a hole through a grating’.at can’t see a hole in a (forty-foot) ladder under can’t..., phr.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 1 Dec. 119/3: We would advise him to get rid of the ‘Caper Merchant,’ ‘Hookey nose’ [...] and a few more.at caper merchant (n.) under caper, n.2
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 27 Oct. 74/3: The Marquis of Blandford [will] republish an essay against drunkenness, or the great danger resulting from casting up accounts.at cast up one’s accounts (v.) under cast, v.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 29 Sept. 47/1: Two Italian scrapers — vulgarly called fiddlers.at catgut-scraper (n.) under catgut, n.1
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 1 Sept. 24/1: Her adventures have been sung in doggerel strains [...] by all the eminent ‘chaunters’ of ballads.at chanter, n.
Crim.-Con. Gaz 1 Sept. 17/3: His transgressions never exceeded the borrowing of a charleys lantern.at charlie, n.1
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 13 Oct. 84/1: ‘Kate, my chicken, here’s precious bit of legislation’.at chicken, n.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 22 Sept. 40/1: I couldn’t sqaeel [sic], for I was out of wind, and my voice was clamm’d till he let me up.at clam (up), v.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 3 Nov. 87/3: That unfortunate race of men whom the illiberal classes [...] distinguish by the denomination of cuckolds, but whom we [...] called Knights of the Cuckoo.at cuckoo, n.1
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 1 Dec. 120/1: Heer’s Bathsheba’s cockpit, where David stood sentry, / Eve’s custom house, where Adam made the first entry.at Eve’s custom house, n.
Crim.-Con. Gaz 1 Sept. 16/2: He accoringly mustered up courage to meet the Frenchman [...] swore numberless G—d d—m’s at him, and concluded with a threat of a challenge.at god-damn, n.1
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 22 Sept. 34/1: A visit to the Greville-street dancing academy.at dancing school, n.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 15 Sept. 30/3: My master [...] mounted the dickey, and declared he should always drive himself.at dicky, n.3
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 29 Sept. 47/1: [of a French diligence] [I] determined to forswear the Mall Post, and go to Paris in the Dilly.at dilly, n.1
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 1 Dec. 120/1: Here’s to the down bed of beauty which upraises man, / And beneath the thatch’d house the miraculous can.at miraculous pitcher (that holds water with the mouth down), n.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 1 Sept. 24/3: For a time they robbed each other [...] and to this hour the Jew will boast how he queered his downey governor, by selling books marked five shillings for ten, and sacking the difference.at downy, adj.1
Crim. Con. Gaz. 25 Aug. 2/1: She was now a person of distinction and above her former draggle-tailed connections.at draggle-tailed, adj.
Crim.-Con. Gaz. 27 Oct. 75/1: Mother Levy [...] keeps a ‘dress-house’ — that is, she sends out decoy girls, showily bedizened, who inveigle young creatures to their own wretched abode.at dress house (n.) under dress, n.
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