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[UK] Flash Mirror q. in National Standard of Lit., Science etc. I 355/1: Sloggers, or fighting men, ape the dress of the sporting swell, and in every thing resemble them, excepting the flashness of their gait, and the colour of their neck-rag.
at flashness (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] Flash Mirror 11: Why is pinching your backside like a strong poison? — Because it is arse-nic.
at arse, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 8: What a shocking bad tile you’ve got.
at bad hat, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 4: The Bug Walk [...] This house is a pannum supply [...] if any gemman of an high order thinks fit to put his beak in, he can get a feeder of slap up peck for a kick.
at beak, n.2
[UK] Flash Mirror 21: In consequence of a report being spread of his buying dead dogs, bodies of young children, &c. &c., [...] and working ’em up into sasengers and faggots, [he says] that it is all bleeder.
at bleeder, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 24: [She] shied it smack at my nob, but it missed me and vent plump in my old ’ooman’s blinker.
at blinker, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 16: A cove turn’d nose and blow’d you, so the beaks are areter you.
at blow, v.1
[UK] Flash Mirror 5: At the Crown Coffee House, Drury Lane [...] blowings of every grade may be seen snoring with their heads upon the tables.
at blowing, n.1
[UK] Flash Mirror 24: I didn’t vant to star this old ’ooman’s glaze [...] so help me Billy Arline.
at s’elp me bob!, excl.
[UK] Flash Mirror 18: He has got such a slap up assortment of [...] body bags, gam kivers, fork linings, mawley sleeves, &c .
at body bag (n.) under body, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 7: Cleansing a Kitchen. — Togging as a beggar. Making your entrance [...] into a gentleman’s kitchen, and while the servant is preparing to collect the broken for you, pocketing a few stray silver knives, forks, &c.
at broken, the, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 20: T. Potts has opened a rummy slush ken at the sign of the Grouts and Coffee-holder, commonly called the Saloopian Hot-Hell, where he sarves [sic] out, out and out Pekoe soup, Congou broth and brown paint.
at brown paint (n.) under brown, adj.2
[UK] Flash Mirror 4: Guide to the Principal Snoozing Kens [...] The Bug Walk Duck Yard, Westminster.
at bug walk (n.) under bug, n.4
[UK] Flash Mirror 7: The most prominent class of flash characters are the following: — Swell Mob Men, Buzmen, Margeries, Cracksmen, Fogle-hunters, Sloggers.
at buzman (n.) under buz, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 6: Gammoning or Magging. — Meeting a Yokel [...] persuading him to enter a public house with you [...] making him lushy, and tipping him the go-by.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 20: F. Felt’s swell tile and nob-thatching warehouse, where is daily on sale [...] rummy sconsers, cannister kivers, and nut toppers of every sort.
at cannister kiver (n.) under canister, n.1
[UK] Flash Mirror 9: May you have an artichoke some morning about hot-roll time.
at hearty choke (with caper sauce), n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 20: J. Maggot [...] pounces on this opportunity to put his pals wido that he has opened a swell ‘Buttick’ for caso, alias a rummy beeswax warehouse.
at caso, n.1
[UK] Flash Mirror 19: Out-and-out cat lap is serv’d out in regular tin conweyancers by the imperial kevart [...] Any swell covess that sluices in warm cat-lap, may hear of a buyer who will [...] take it away.
at cat-lap (n.) under cat, n.1
[UK] Flash Mirror 19: A cock and hen club every Tuesday and Saturday, where a swell chaunter attends and plays the f—g pony.
at chanter, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 9: Your legs would make an excellent pair of cheese-cutters.
at cheese-cutter (n.) under cheese, n.1
[UK] Flash Mirror 24: Larry and his old ’ooman had been b—y good trumps to us [...] so we’ve been quite chuffy with von another ever since.
at chuffy, adj.
[UK] Flash Mirror 7: Queering a Greenhorn. — Togging as a Policeman [...] Having a good eye on all yokels. Searching them as suspicious characters. Clying any thing good.
at cly, v.
[UK] Flash Mirror 19: Conductors, starvers, busters of all sorts and sizes hot every morning.
at conductor, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 20: T. Potts has opened a rummy slush ken at the sign of the Grouts and Coffee-holder, commonly called the Saloopian Hot-Hell, where he sarves [sic] out, out and out Pekoe soup, Congou broth and brown paint.
at congo, n.1
[UK] Flash Mirror 19: R. Rainbow, Slap Toggery-maker; [...] a suit of cover-me-properly executed in twenty-four hours’ notice.
at cover-me-properly (n.) under cover, v.
[UK] Flash Mirror 19: R. Rainbow, Slap Toggery-maker; benjamins, top togs, cover-me-decents, togs, and kicks of every sort done to a new move, pinch’d in knee pillow-cases, done fine and work’d to fit any forks.
at cover-me-decent (n.) under cover, v.
[UK] Flash Mirror 16: You’re a nice cove to another’s covess, ain’t you?
at covess, n.
[UK] Flash Mirror 18: Trotter cases, mud pipes and boot kivers, carved to fit any pins [...] N.B. — Old pickling tubs and crab shells made and mended.
at crab-shells (n.) under crab, n.1
[UK] Flash Mirror 18: R. Simpkins [...] has just open’d a cribb in the Hosiery game.
at crib, n.1
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