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in Examiner 8 Mar. 157: I might have withheld these political noodles / From knocking their heads against hot Yankee Doodles.at Yankee Doodle, n.
in Examiner 8 Mar. 157: I might have withheld these political noodles / From knocking their heads against hot Yankee Doodles. in Examiner 8 Mar. 157: ’would please me if those, whom I’ve humbug’d so long / With the notion (good men!) that I know right from wrong.at humbug, v.
Examiner 13 Aug. 7/1: He bought half a gallon of rum. He had a hearty booze before he left the ship, so that when he came on shore he was rather top-heavy.at booze, n.
Examiner 13 Aug. 7/1: He made inquiry for his companion, and just got sight of her in the public-house, but she gave him the double.at give someone the double (v.) under double, n.1
Examiner 13 Aug. 7/1: He bought half a gallon of rum. He had a hearty booze before he left the ship, so that when he came on shore he was rather top-heavy.at top-heavy (adj.) under top, n.
Examiner 25 Aug. 14/2: He was himself a moon-raker (a Wiltshire man).at moon-raker, n.
Examiner 8 Aug. 10/2: Glutton, Gourmandizer, Greedygut, Bellygod.at greedy-gut, n.
Examiner 5 Sept. 1/2: Oh the indecent jolthead!at jolterhead, n.
Examiner 3 Nov. 7/2: A taste for domestic comedy is reviving; [...] whatever can assist it is to be encouraged [...] Mrs Davison is a sure card.at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
Examiner 14 Nov. 8/2: His mode of complaining [...] reminds us of the concern of the betwattled politician in Murphy’s farce.at betwattled (adj.) under betwattle, v.
Examiner 18 Dec. 4/2: I have in vain applied to the chum-master to take off the aforesaid chum from my room.at chum-master (n.) under chum, n.
Examiner 18 Dec. 4/2: There were other prisoners without a chum, who ought to have been chummed before me.at chum, v.
Examiner 18 Dec. 4/1: I was much surprised by a person calling on me with a chum-ticket upon my room.at chum-ticket (n.) under chum, n.
Examiner 18 Dec. 4/2: The rule of chummage is, [...] those who have been confined the shortest are to be chummed first.at chummage, n.
Examiner 10 Apr. 7/2: Miss Graddon’s acting was improved, even into animation, in the dead-alive scene.at dead alive (adj.) under dead, adj.
Examiner 13 Feb. 15/1: [advt] Airy Nothings; or Scraps and Noughts and Odd-cum Shorts &c.at oddcum shorts, n.
Examiner 19 Aug. 5/2: The gammocks of this set of indiscriminating monument destroyers [...] form not the most pleasing of all incentives to laughter.at gammocks, n.
Examiner 21 Feb. 4/1: Of one character think highly: viz. that of the case-hardened Newgate bird.at Newgate bird (n.) under Newgate, n.
Examiner 1 May n.p.: ‘I thought,’ said he, ’it was a buffalo.’ ‘Go along, you fool, [...] it is an ass’.at get along with you!, excl.
Examiner 13 Oct. 5/2: When half a dozen country gentlemen dine together what is it but a itting of estates? — Noodle Hall is at the right of the lady of Addlehead [...] Sapscull Lodge a place lower.at sapscull (n.) under sap, n.2
Examiner 9 Feb. 5/2: ‘Bridewell should receive one more guest.’ Prisoner — ‘I’d rather be sent there and to the mill-doll by your Lordship, than take my grub along with any of the rummy beaks at Worship-street’.at mill doll, n.
Examiner 8 June 2/1: Crooked, dry, bald, goggle-eyed [...] with staring eyes, sparrow-mouthed.at goggle-eyed, adj.
Examiner 8 June 2/1: Wrinkled, pimpled, red, have a swollen juggler’s platter-face.at platter-faced, adj.
Examiner 8 June 2/1: A vast virago, a fat fustilugs, whom thou couldst not fancy for a world.at fustilugs, n.
Examiner 9 Feb. 5/2: ‘Bridewell should receive one more guest.’ Prisoner — ‘I’d rather be sent there and to the mill-doll by your Lordship, than take my grub along with any of the rummy beaks at Worship-street.’.at grub, n.2
Examiner 8 June 2/1: Crooked, dry, bald, goggle-eyed [...] with staring eyes, sparrow-mouthed.at sparrow-mouthed (adj.) under sparrow, n.
Examiner 3 Apr. 11/2: I thought I vould jest see if I could do summmit for myself in the bone-picking line.at bone-picker (n.) under bone, n.1
Examiner 3 Apr. 11/2: Cook shops and gemmen’s houses! Vy they’re the werry last spots vich them as is ‘fly’ to our business could prick [sic] upon for bones.at fly, adj.
Examiner 19 Aug. 11/1: Dunghill demagogue — foul example — potatoe plebian face.at dunghill, n.1
Examiner 2 May 4/2: Tjhough born to be little’s my fate [...] I’m no lanky long hoddy-doddy [...] Though wanting two feet in my body, In soul, I am thirty feet high.at hoddy-doddy, n.
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