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Gloucester Citizen 11 Jan. 7/2: The tale-pitcher was primed with a plausible story for each artist, posing as a brother-brush.at brother (of the) brush (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Gloucester Citizen 11 Jan. 7/2: The tale-pitcher was primed with a plausible story for each artist, posing as a brother-brush. Gloucester Citizen 11 Jan. 7/2: Known in the underworld as ‘lurkers,’ [...] their favourite game is to pose as a friend of some service member of the family temporarily out of funds.at lurker, n.
Gloucester Citizen 11 Jan. 7/2: The ordinary tale-pitcher has a respect for the practitioner known as the ‘heavy lurker,’ who works among the aristocracy.at lurker, n.
Gloucester Citizen 11 Jan. 7/2: There are [...] a number of well-dressed and plausible scoundrels who, [...] ‘mugged up’ from works of reference, prey upon the affluent.at mug (up), v.2
Gloucester Citizen 27 Nov. 4/3: [advert] New Material and Style in [...] Monkey Jackets.at monkey jacket (n.) under monkey, n.
Gloucester Citizen 30 Aug. 4/1: So now, you who intend to go to Cyprus, mind your eye!at mind your eye! (excl.) under eye, n.
Gloucester Citizen 8 Dec. 3/5: [advert] Christmas Decorations — Gold and Silver Leaf, Dutch Metal and Bronzes.at Dutch foil (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Gloucester Citizen 17 July 4/1: But things always go quisby when Discipline’s lax!at quisby, adj.
Gloucester Citizen 27 May 3/3: Walter Emms, known to ‘the fancy’ as the ‘Stiff Un’ and Arthur Shaw, of Norwich, professional pugilists.at stiff ’un, n.
Gloucester Citizen 24 Aug. 3/2: ‘Yes, ma’am,’ said the philosophic retainer; ‘but you see [...] I’ve never had any churchyard luck’.at churchyard luck (n.) under churchyard, n.
Gloucester Citizen 18 Nov. 3/5: The last of whom are still taking milk from mother’s chest, and are damnably noiseful.at damnably, adv.
Gloucester Citizen 12 Aug. 4/4: Percy Marchant [...] was summoned by George Hawkins [...] for threatening to ‘make it it hot’ for him.at make it hot for (v.) under hot, adj.
Gloucester Citizen 20 Feb. 3/2: A very scurrilous and blackguard article [...] from the pen of Ouida’s bootlicker, Legge.at bootlicker, n.
Gloucester Citizen 20 Feb. 3/2: A very scurrilous and blackguard article appeared last week in that rag [...] from the pen of Ouida’s bootlicker, Legge.at rag, n.1
Gloucester Citizen 16 Dec. 4/2: ‘He took with him a woman about town.’ ‘Do you mean a prostitute?’.at woman about town (n.) under woman, n.
Gloucester Citizen 10 July 4/1: He’s as straight as a yard of pump water.at yard of pump water (n.) under yard, n.4
Gloucester Citizen 11 June 3/2: The Americans have invented a new term for the dude (Anglicé ‘masher’). It is ‘sissy’.at sissy, n.
Gloucester Citizen 7 June 4/1: He described it as one [...] ‘born a bit tired’.at born (a bit) tired (adj.) under tired, adj.
Gloucester Citizen 18 Oct. 3/4: The prestige of being a blue pigeon flyer ‘in excelsis’ can scarcely be witheld from [...] Cowper, who was charged at Wandsworth with stealing no less than 212 lb of lead.at blue pigeon flyer (n.) under blue pigeon, n.
Gloucester Citizen 6 June 3/3: In order to make it more successful the distance limit in relation to the bona fide traveller should be increased from three miles to twelve.at bona fide, n.
Gloucester Citizen 8 Nov. 3/5: A brush up once a week makes us as smart as a carrot half scraped.at ...a carrot (new scraped), ...half-scraped under smart as..., adj.
Gloucester Citizen 13 May 4/3: She proceeded to detail the circum stances [...] which commenced by the complainant calling to him ‘You — long slab of misery’.at (long) streak of misery (n.) under streak, n.
Gloucester Citizen 4 Feb. 3/3: On almost every Indian reservation there is a court of Indian offences presided over by a Copperksin judge.at copper, n.
Gloucester Citizen 8 Dec. 3/4: He was attired in a decent suit of black, wore a ‘long-sleeved’ hat.at long-sleeved top (n.) under long, adj.
Gloucester Citizen 16 May 4/2: She accused him of calling her son Israel a ‘mongrel’ and then struck him in the mouth with a dish cloth.at mongrel, n.
Gloucester Citizen 13 Apr. 4/5: A ‘knight of the industry’ who stole a cheque-book [...] was a notorious swindler and imposter.at ...(the) industry under knight of the..., n.
Gloucs. Citizen 26 Jan. 4/4: Billy Bumpkin, Sammy Softhead [...] figure among the cast of mortals.at softhead (n.) under soft, adj.
Gloucs. Citizen 17 Aug. 3/5: This assurance has proved to be a perfect flim-flam.at flim-flam, n.
Gloucester Citizen 14 Aug. 4/4: A swingeing tax might be relied on to do the rest — or fill the exchequer.at swingeing (adj.) under swinge, v.
Gloucester Citizen 14 Nov. 4/6: [headline] A Schoolboy ‘Howler’.at howler, n.
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