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All Sloper’s Half Holiday 8 May 6/1: The Capting said he did not care two straws for him.at not care a straw, v.
All Sloper’s Half Holiday 8 May 6/1: The Capting said he did not care two straws for him. Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 14 June 56: [caption] This is a Broth of a Boy, who has agreed to water the garden for sixpence, waiting to see if it’s going to rain.at broth of a boy, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 14 June 50/2: [caption] A Stroll down the strans-ity / stick ion the hand-ity / Dpn’t care a d—ity fellow.at not give a damn, v.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 24 May 25/1: I don’t mean to mess about. The whole half-dollar goes on one horse.at mess about, v.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 24 May 25/1: Which must have been trying to the tragic people working up the agony all night.at agony, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 21 June 61: [caption] Sloper’s Patent Ketch-’em-alive-oh! really does attract flies.at catch ’em (all) alive-o, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 31 May 34/2: While it lasts, oh, ain’t it fun? / When it’s flown, cut and run!at cut and run, v.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 3 May 2/3: ‘There’s a Johnny say quoi [...] ’ said ‘Arry the other day.at ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 24 May 28/1: What is the difference between a new play at the Prince’s and half an ounce of bord’s eye? Why, don’t you see? one is Called Back, and the other’s called bacca.at bacca, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 7 June 46/1: We must not forgot the priest’s ‘bakshish,’ or the fee to the presiding Brahmin.at baksheesh, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 21 June 58/1: ‘There goes a boy on duty, and, by jabers, hear how he whistles’.at bejabers!, excl.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 24 May 31/3: ‘Peter Matthews, ex-penitentiary bird, drew a revolver on Edward Bentley’.at bird, n.1
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 17 May 23/3: Fetch your aged sire [...] half an ounce of the best birdseye.at birdseye, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 31 May 35/2: Ally, ole hoss, you bin a-foolin’ round this claim fur might near a year, an’ hev never yit shot off your mouth on the marrying biz.at biz, n.1
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 14 June 49: [caption] ‘I’m blessed if the old humbug ain’t been and gave me a duffing ’alfpenny’.at blessed, adj.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 7 June 42/3: I should have blewed the lot a-buying a pistol and bulletsed the lot.at blew, v.2
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 3 May 3/3: ‘And I’m blowed if I’ve got a hidear!’.at blowed, adj.1
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 8 May 7/1: Where does London milk comes from? — Why, from Cowes, of course [...] I mean sky-blue skimmed.at sky blue, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 10 May11/1: My humble bob and tanner.at bob, n.3
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 21 June 59/1: [caption] Lord Bob’s bobbish.at bobbish, adj.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 7 June 47/2: To others Samuel Hardstaff is a peeler, a reeler, a copper, a Bobby, a Robert, an unboiled lobster, or a slop, but to cook he is Mr Policeman.at bobby, n.1
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 3 May 2/3: Don’t talk such bosh, / The colour let’s see of your tin.at bosh, n.1
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 8 May 7/1: There should only be one B in Busses. [...] there are at least six others B’s you ought never to find in them —that is to say Bags, Boxes, Bundles, Bow-wows, Babies and Big fat people.at bow-wow, n.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 7 June 41/3: I’m the stoniest of stony brokers.at stone broke, adj.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 17 May 18/1: ‘Ask him [i.e. a rich uncle] here to dine [...] and if the worst comes to the worst, we’ll Burke him’.at burke, v.
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 24 May 31/3: He was probably one of the most offensive little cads the sun ever shone upon.at cad, n.1
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 8 May 5: [caption] In pronouncing this [a pretty woman] a little darling, may Ally not be allowed to be a correct card.at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 31 May 35/2: Ef yer [...] want a pard that’ll stick to to ye till ye pass in yer checks, just squeal .at pass in one’s checks (v.) under check, n.1
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 10 May14/2: ‘[C]huck it up, young ’un [...] you’ve no more tune in you than a three-legged stool’.at chuck up, v.2
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 3 May 6/3: Theatre in Lincol’s Inn Fields opened 1695. I. Moses’s great-great-grandfather [...] severely chucked.at chucked, adj.1
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