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Falkirk Herald 8 June 2/1: There, there now, easy does it!at easy does it under easy, adj.
Falkirk Herald 8 June 2/1: There, there now, easy does it! Falkirk Herald 9 Oct. 1/7: Who do you call a nuisance, you muffin-faced blue bottle?at muffin-faced (adj.) under muffin-face, n.
Falkirk Herald 25 Sept. 4/5: The German reporters [...] says the correspondent of the Times, write in eloquent blanks. ‘My pen,’ writes one bedazzled cabbage-eater, ‘comes to a stand-still involuntarily as the scene passes’.at cabbage-eater (n.) under cabbage, n.2
Falkirk Herald 11 Sept. 3/2: The profession must be looking up, when a knight of the quill can dare to assert his nationality in this fashion.at ...the quill under knight of the..., n.
Falkirk Herald 21 Feb. 4/6: ‘Jim Tarpaulin,’ a friend of hers.at tarpaulin, n.
Falkirk Herald 28 Jan. 3/3: Glasgow, to use an emphatic [...] phrase, ‘beat us all to fits’.at beat into fits (v.) under beat, v.
Falkirk Herald 16 Jan. 3/4: The glowing acounts received [...] pronouncing Heenan a monster of muscle [...] and advising him to bet his bottom dollar on the American.at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
Falkirk Herald 17 Dec. 2/6: ‘A Rousin’ Whid’ ‘I do love a good lie,’ says one of Captain Marryat’s heroes.at whid, n.
Falkirk Herald 28 May 3/6: Judge Lynch in the far West [...] The American pages contain an account of a shocking outrage which was committed by a gang of outlaws [...] in Kansas.at Judge Lynch, n.
Falkirk Herald 14 May 4/4: Vaux, the Swell Mobsman. This inveterate thief had been confined in Clerkenwell prison.at swell mobsman (n.) under swell mob, n.
Falkirk Herald 13 July 3/6: The ‘Alexandra Limp’ has given place to the ‘Bismarck quickstep’ in London fashionable circles.at Alexandra limp, n.
Falkirk Herald 23 Mar. 3/6: But how come the sandwiches there, Mr Sam? / Ah, ha! telll me that, muffin-head.at muffin-head (n.) under muffin, n.1
Falkirk Herald 6 Apr. 2/1: She scoops out prepared opium from a little gallipot, sticks it on the needle [...] humours the pill with the spatula end of another needle to get it to kindle, and then takes a long pull.at pill, n.
Falkirk Herald 6 Apr. 2/1: He takes a pull at the opium-pipe, and then puts it in the mouth of the drowsy lascar.at pull, n.
Falkirk Herald 6 Apr. 2/1: Wanting to have a smoke, and not being able to get opium, is a hundred times worse.at smoke, n.
Falkirk Herald 27 Apr. 4/6: Holloway [...] asked if he had any objection to being in on a good thing, It was to be a ‘low toby’.at low-toby, n.
Falkirk Herald 27 Apr. 4/6: Holloway had found out a gentleman to ‘sarve’ on Hounslow Heath.at serve, v.
Falkirk Herald 3 May 4/7: Having lately opened a hashery, I send you this, my rules and regulations .at hash-house, n.
Falkirk Herald 10 July 7/2: Mr Cornelius Gibb, lumper of Clackmannan, the gentleman of African descent.at lumper, n.1
Falkirk Herald 17 Jan. 1/3: Pukka Loocha; or, A Regular Bad Lot. A Tale of Soldier Life in India.at loocha, n.
Falkirk Herald 30 May 3/6: I put it in my slop-bowl to soak.at slop, n.1
Falkirk Herald (Scot.) 9 Apr. 6/1: Keep a sharp look-out, and show a bold face, / Or the foe will be soon on your back, Tom! / Sail close to the wind when you tack, Tom! / We live, while we live, by the pluck that we show.at sail close to the wind, v.
Falkirk Herald 5 Apr. 6/1: Eh, mercy! I’m fit to be tied wi’ a strae [...] I’ve no lauch’t sae muckle for mony a day.at fit to be tied under fit to..., phr.
Falkirk Herald 21 Nov. 2/1: We would make short work of thi silly trumpeting and clash-bag diversion.at clashbag, n.
Falkirk Herald 31 Jan. 6/5: It is all very well to have a soul above buttons but they constitute an important part of the pomp and circumstance of glorious war.at have a soul above buttons (v.) under soul, n.1
Falkirk Herald 1 May 6/2: [Y]ou will see the Crutchstick and Toothpick Brigade in all their glory, it is pitiful sight. [...] All that the tailor and haberdasher can do lor them has been done; but fine feathers not make fine birds. These specimens of the gilded youth of the period are for the most part microcephalous [...] their eyes have that fishy look which comes from premature plunging into the mud-bath of dissipation.at crutch-and-toothpick brigade (n.) under crutch, n.1
Falkirk Herald 1 Feb. 6/1: The sarcasm and scorn with which [Burns] exposed the duplicity and deceit, the cant and hypocrisy of his time, lashing the Holy Willies.at holy Willie (n.) under holy, adj.
Falkirk Herald 18 Nov. 8/5: [advert] Ready-Mades! Ready-Mades!at ready-made (n.) under ready, adj.
Falkirk Herald 8 Feb. 2/6: You are deceived by the views which obtain in Wall Street and among New York mugwump pressmen.at mugwump, n.
Falkirk Herald 5 Feb. 2/7: I heard a horrid low comedian tell the stage manager that if I hadn’t been the Gorger’s niece I shouldn’t have been allowed to deliver a message [...] ‘The Gorger?’ ‘Name for the manager’.at gorger, n.1
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