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Glasgow Herald 4 Feb. 4/3: So I think it but proper, to fill a tip-topper / Of Sherry to drink to the King.at tip-topper, n.
Glasgow Herald 4 Feb. 4/3: So I think it but proper, to fill a tip-topper / Of Sherry to drink to the King. Glasgow Herald 27 Nov. 4/2: Keep to a side [...] for, dog on it, Moosey’ll have a pistol; and [...] would think nae mair o’ shooting yer as dead as a mawkin.at dog on it! (excl.) under dog!, excl.
Glasgow Herald 27 Mar. 4/1: In comes the birkie and the very young lady smoodging and laughing like daft. Dog on it! it was a shameless piece of business.at doggone, v.
Glasgow Herald 27 Nov. 4/2: But as to the dominoos [...] the Frenchy maun had left them as a token o’ gratitude [...] for a bit of comfortable supper.at Frenchie, adj.
Glasgow Herald 27 Mar. 4/1: His run-awa’ daughter that had decampit wi’ some neerdowell loon of a half-pay captain.at loon, n.1
Glasgow Herald 27 Mar. 4/1: In comes the birkie and the very young lady smoodging and laughing like daft.at smoodge, v.
Glasgow Herald 20 Apr. 2/1: The turning of the Hall of Congress into a chop-house or ‘slap-bang’ shop is [etc.].at slap-bang(-shop), n.
Glasgow Herald 25 Dec. 4/7: He gets another clip across the jaws from Chips.at clip, n.2
Glasgow Herald 11 Dec. 1/1: These are composed of airs popularly called ‘Negro Melodies’; [...] ‘Zip Coon’.at zip coon, n.
Glasgow Herald 25 Dec. 4/7: Look after him, Jacobs, my lad [...] show him the ropes.at show (someone) the ropes (v.) under show, v.
Glasgow Herald 7 Dec. 4/5: A party of svene women were brought [...] on a charge of having the jaw-box in tenement [...] where they reside, in a filthy and dirty state.at jarbox, n.
Glasgow Herald 15 Dec. 6/5: [headline] Exposure and punishment of the ‘Touzery Gang’.at touzery gang, n.
Glasgow Herald 24 Nov. 6/1: [of a dog] A pointer, which, if he have a good nose [...] will infallibly stand stiff as a crutch.at stiff as a crutch (adj.) under stiff, adj.
Glasgow Herald 17 June 1/3: Contract to provide a One-horse Box noddy or coach, when required, to convey Bodies of Poor to Graveyard from Poor House.at noddy, n.
Glasgow Herald 29 Aug. 5/3: With regard to his religion, you know that is all my eye in a bandbox.at (all) my eye(s) and a bandbox! (excl.) under my eye(s)!, excl.
Glasgow Herald 15 Apr. 2/4: For this sum I had my meals and a ‘flea-bag’ to sleep upon.at fleabag, n.
Glasgow Herald 10 Aug. 4/5: That, with a few pigeon-brained exceptions, is the stern decision of the community.at pigeon-brained (adj.) under pigeon, n.1
Glasgow Herald 20 Apr. 4/3: The poliotenes of the ring does not admit the use of the word ‘blood,’ and it is therefore converted into ‘juice’.at juice, n.1
Glasgow Herald 20 Apr. 4/3: ‘Kisser,’ ‘tater-trap,’ or ‘oration trap’ for mouth.at oration-trap, n.
Glasgow Herald 20 Apr. 4/3: Features injured by heavy blows [...] ‘snorrer’ [...] for nose.at snorer, n.1
Glasgow Herald 20 Apr. 4/3: We are rather amused [...] that one of the combatants ‘napped a slogger on his snuffer-tray’.at snuffer-tray, n.
Glasgow Herald 17 Apr. 2/6: Men are now awakening from drowsy slumber and spoonyism.at spoonyism (n.) under spoony, n.
Glasgow Herald 20 Apr. 4/3: Tom got a hot ’un on the whistler, which shook his ivories and turned on a fresh tap.at turn on the tap (v.) under tap, n.2
Glasgow Herald 20 Apr. 4/3: Tom got a hot ’un on the whistler, which shook his ivories and turned on a fresh tap.at whistler, n.2
Glasgow Herald 1 Nov. 2/4: The kinchin lay [...] consists in catching small children sent on errands with the money ready in their hands.at kinchin lay (n.) under kinchin, n.
Glasgow Herald 29 Sept. 6/5: No sage, I’m sure, could know / This turnip head, that I have on / From those that there do grow.at turnip-head (n.) under turnip, n.
Glasgow Herald 28 Sept. 6/1: The running patterer [...] is known by another [...] cognomen — a ‘Death Hunter’.at death-hunter (n.) under death, n.
Glasgow Herald 12 Sept. 6/1: It is a kind of public proclamation that you are a tall poppy; and that, as in in these days your head cannot be struck off, it is worthwhile to buy you.at tall poppy (n.) under tall, adj.
Glasgow Herald 17 Dec. 2/2: The dread ‘Tyburn tree’ [...] was for a long time, a fixed gallows of triangular form, and was called in derision, the ‘three-legged mare,’ or the ‘three-footed stool’.at three-legged mare (n.) under three, adj.
Glasgow Herald 17 Dec. 2/2: The dread Tyburn tree [...] Few of the many person who daily pass the spot where Tyburn Tree, and afterwards Tyburn gate, once stood, remember [etc.].at Tyburn tree (n.) under Tyburn, n.
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