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Exeter Flying Post 24 Dec. 2/1: Lord Kenyon — ‘It is a capital offence, to alter a bill of exchange after it is issued. The public cannot be too much on their guard against bad paper’.at bad paper (n.) under bad, adj.
Exeter Flying Post 24 Dec. 2/1: Lord Kenyon — ‘It is a capital offence, to alter a bill of exchange after it is issued. The public cannot be too much on their guard against bad paper’. Exeter Flying Post 29 Aug. 2/1: Some sap-headed waterman got too many in his boat, and it went over.at sap-headed, adj.
Exeter Flying Post 20 Jan. 2/4: The latter was as groggy as Jack tar, three sheets in the wind.at three sheets in the wind, phr.
Exeter Flying Post 10 June 2: Sall Horse was backed by the leary coves who knew her prowess.at leary cove (n.) under leery, adj.
Exeter Flying Post 10 June 2: The winner, in addition to the stumpy (money); to be blessed with the full and sole enojoyment of a knight of the whip.at stumpy, n.1
Exeter Flying Post 7 Jan. 4/4: A comely-looking wench, with [...] such pretty pouting rose-coloured lips that we do not wonder [...] they inspired the soul of the aged knight of the birch.at ...the birch (n.) under knight of the..., n.
Exeter Flying Post 7 Jan. 4/4: Miss Sally Bond flew into a tearing passion, and vowed that every one of the urchins should have a right good towelling if they did not instantly allow her to depart.at towelling, n.
Exeter Flying Post 8 Jan. 3/4: Wm. Mortimer, 29, imprisoned 2 calendar months, hard labour, 12 days solitary, 3 days at a time.at solitary, n.
Exeter Flying Post 8 Jan. 4/1: ‘No fear,’ says Ben.at no fear!, excl.
Exeter Flying Post 8 Jan. 4/1: There’s twenty-on ’em in the guinea, ain’t there, Matey?at matey, n.
Exeter Flying Post 8 Jan. 4/1: Ben paid his shot.at pay one’s shot (v.) under shot, n.1
Exeter Flying Post 14 July 6/2: Mr Grogblossom drank rather more than his ususal allowance of hot rum and sugar.at grog blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Exeter Flying Post 2 July 5/3: These women had called her ‘Bible-back’ and other offensive names.at bibleback, n.
Exeter Flying Post 7 Apr. 5/5: [headline] The ‘’Tizer’ and the Leading Journal.at ’Tizer, the, n.
Exeter Flying Post 15 Feb. 5/6: Mr Cully could tell that the man was not a genuine seaman — that he was in fact but a turnpike sailor.at turnpike sailor, n.
Exeter Flying Post 1 Sept. 3/4: On the Southwark shore [...] were places of dissipation, on the rents of which the Bishops of Winchester flourished [...] But wickedness is a power that will have it’s way [...] and ‘Winchester Goose’ [was] brought back.at Winchester goose, n.
Exeter Flying Post 14 Dec. 8/4: In London West-end ‘slang’ trowsers a large or remarkable pattern are termed howling bags, and they heard of young men sticking their feet under the governor’s mahogany.at howling bags (n.) under bags, n.2
Exeter Flying Post 24 Aug. 8/2: There is quite a dearth of ‘chitchat’ andd ‘scan-mag’ is at a premium.at chitchat, n.1
Exeter Flying Post 14 Dec. 8/4: In London West-end ‘slang’ trowsers a large or remarkable pattern are termed howling bags, and they heard of young men sticking their feet under the governor’s mahogany.at mahogany, n.
Exeter Flying Post 24 Aug. 8/2: There is quite a dearth of ‘chitchat’, and ‘scan-mag’ is at a premium.at scanmag, n.
Exeter Flying Post 25 June 6/1: Why, that odious old quiz, Captain Moonraker.at quiz, n.
Exeter Flying Post 7 June 6/2: As different as possible from the mock enthusiasm affected by people known as ‘gushers’.at gusher, n.
Exeter Flying Post 24 Mar. 6/2: ‘What can’t be cured must be sold fresh,’ is the watchword of Porkopolis.at Porkopolis, n.
Exeter Flying Post 20 Apr. 6/6: ‘Clouts’ or white cotton ones [...] from the perquisites of the ‘Washer’.at clout, n.1
Exeter Flying Post 20 Apr. 6/6: Stook-Buzzing or ‘Fogle-hunting’ [...] is followed onl by boys who band together, one being the bagman, the sxecond the stall, while the third [...] keeps a look out [...] is called the swagsman, it being the chief part of his business to carry or ‘swag’ the ‘stooks’ or [...] ‘fogles’.at stook buzzing (n.) under stook, n.
Exeter Flying Post 20 Apr. 6/6: Stook-Buzzing or ‘Fogle-hunting’ [...] is followed onl by boys who band together, one being the bagman, the sxecond the stall, while the third [...] keeps a look out [...] is called the swagsman, it being the chief part of his business to carry or ‘swag’ the ‘stooks’ or [...] ‘fogles’.at swag, v.
Exeter Flying Post 10 Sept. 5/5: Her Parliamentary Debating Society [...] had a kind of ‘swarry’.at swarry, n.
Exeter Flying Post 18 Apr. 4/1: To say nothing of the knight of the lapstone.at ...the lapstone under knight of the..., n.
Exeter Flying Post 30 Dec. 7/5: A quarter of an hour’s ride on Shank’s pony lands us at the door.at shanks’s pony, n.
Exeter Flying Post 26 Jan. 3/3: Did someone suggest a game of nap? Ah bet you don’t catch this cove napping. I pass.at catch someone napping (v.) under napping, n.
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