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Fast Man 7:1 n.p.: [T]he Colonel, having denuded of its flowers the garden which had attracted him, amputated his logwood for Edinburgh.at amputate one’s mahogany, v.
Fast Man 7:1 n.p.: [T]he Colonel, having denuded of its flowers the garden which had attracted him, amputated his logwood for Edinburgh. Fast Man 6:1 n.p.: Mr. [? Hurst] said he'd got his cocked hat and staff outside, and if they liked he’d soon have order. a voice.—‘Sit down. Short a—!’.at short-arse, n.
Fast Man 12:1 n.p.: Our yokel friends, however, require
occasionally to be cautioned, as their wide-awakeism cannot be
supposed to keep pace with that of the wary Cockneys.at wide-awakism (n.) under wide-awake, adj.
Fast Man 16:1 n.p.: [He] kept a bang up gelding, with gig, in first-rate style.at bang-up, adj.
Fast Man 6:1 n.p.: [T]though she ‘bedded’ she never ‘wedded’ with Mr. Hookham.at bed, v.
Fast Man 14:1 n.p.: If poor George Wynne had been alive, would’nt he have given you a bellowsing about this game.at bellowser, n.
Fast Man 7:1 n.p.: A week in the blues. By a Discharged peeler.at blues, n.2
Fast Man 9:1 n.p.: [T]he males are either shopmen, bankers' clerks, or country ‘boobies,’ trying to ‘go the pace’ .at booby, n.1
Fast Man n.d. n.p.: Let your friend send the lady to our boozey chum, Jem Brown, for a day or two, he’d cure her.at boozy, adj.
Fast Man 7:1 n.p.: A peep o’ day boy is mistaken—very much mistaken.at peep o’ day boy, n.
Fast Man 10:1 n.p.: ‘The Man who Struck Buckley’ will hear of a situation if he applies at the ‘Paddy’s Goose,’ Ratcliffe-highway. A good hand at bullying will always get an engagement from the proprietor.at who struck Buckley?, phr.
Fast Man 4:1 n.p.: Their toggery is terrifically astounding, truly spiflicating, licking Stultz into smash, and frightening the whole race of bum-case-constructors.at bum-case (n.) under bum, n.1
Fast Man 10:1 n.p.: Angelina.—oh! I never ! I have burked my father!at burke, v.
Fast Man 7:1 n.p.: We have had a clipping dinner.at clipping, adj.2
Fast Man 4:1 n.p.: I at the hour appointed trudged off to meet the old cock in the shovel-hat.at old cock, n.
Fast Man 14:1 n.p.: Cardinal Stagger is expected hourly from Rome, with power to cover in the bridges of Waterloo and Hungerford, which are to be converted into promenades for the Sisters of the Exeter-street and Off-alley institutions, and the convent in Shepherd-street, is to be re-modelled, and indulgences granted at a very low price.at convent, n.
Fast Man 14:1 n.p.: ‘What a cold, miserable crib,’ said Sam, as soon as he entered the room, ‘"why it's enough to give a fellow the horrors’.at crib, n.1
Fast Man 8:1 n.p.: [H]e vas glad to git a sheer of half-a-noggin of daffy, a vet of heavy, or half-a-screw of backy.at daffy, n.1
Fast Man 3:1 n.p.: [T]hat heathenish jig (as a certain devil-dodger
of my acquaintance has been pleased to denominate the
Polka).at devil-dodger (n.) under devil, n.
Fast Man 11:1 n.p.: Suppose the lady of colour who nocturnally does the peripatetic on the tesselated pavement of the Haymarket, were to take a cabman into the Country Court for calling her a sable-doodle-dealing-smutty-faced shivering old shickster, would it be libellous.at doodle, n.2
Fast Man 7:1 n.p.: The most inveterate drainists have their apologies, such as [...] ‘What’s good, marm, for a pain in the stomach?’ ‘I’ve a wretched tooth-ache.’ These are the preludes to the grand peroration of ‘A glass of your best gin, if you please’.at drainist (n.) under drain, n.1
Fast Man 8:1 n.p.: She was girl for him. A smile from her seemed indeed worth a ‘Jew's eye’.at Jew’s eye, n.
Fast Man 2:1 n.p.: [W]e introduce the ‘Fancy Man,’ a character that must not, by any means, be confused with the ‘bulley.’ The first is an attaché to the brothel, the second the follower of the kept-mistress [...] the Fancy Man of the swell blowen who drives her brougham, keeps her tiger, and lives in the region of hyde-park-gardens, is quite another sort of customer to the ‘covey’ that hangs about the poor Drury-lane drab.at fancy man, n.1
Fast Man 9:1 n.p.: Sort of sentimental swipey spouter [...] , who never drinks with the lads [...] yet’s always ‘foggy’.at foggy, adj.
Fast Man 12:1 n.p.: If they see a yokel come in it is all right—by a species of gag, which they [i.e. touts] well understand, the yokel takes the bait and is dragged ashore.at gag, n.
Fast Man 8:1 n.p.: [H]e said ‘he witnessed a gallows deal of interruption, and if he saw any more of it, he’d have the party copt and lumbered, by the beadles’.at gallows, adj.
Fast Man 14:1 n.p.: ‘She’s certainly a new girl.’ ‘A new girl!’ repeated the young man, with surprise. ‘That is, I mean, she’s not been long out—not been long at this game’.at game, n.
Fast Man 7:1 n.p.: [T]he Colonel, having denuded of its flowers the garden which had attracted him, amputated his logwood for Edinburgh.at garden, n.
Fast Man 6:1 n.p.: I know a house in Ivy-lane where the gonuffs
(thieves) use.at gonnof, n.
Fast Man 6:1 n.p.: Mr. Henry Harris, the manager of the establishment—surnamed ‘The Grinder,’ from his arbitrary treatment of those beneath him.at grind, v.
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