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Bombay Gaz. 18 Dec. 14/2: [T]he waggish catgut tormentors struck up the Pretender’s song, of ‘Charlie is my darling’.at tormentor of catgut, n.
Bombay Gaz. 18 Dec. 14/2: [T]he waggish catgut tormentors struck up the Pretender’s song, of ‘Charlie is my darling’. Bombay Gaz. 26 Feb. 16/2: St. Martin is one of the worthies of the Romish calendar, and a form of prayer to him commences with the words — ‘Oh, mihi beate Martine;’ which, by some desperate fellow, who was more prone to punning than praying, has furnished the slang phrase ‘My eye, and Betty Martin’.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Bombay Gaz. 5 Feb. 13/3: '[He] cried to them. ‘Damn you! take off your hats, you Potatoes!’ the slang word for stupid fools .at potato, n.
Bombay Gaz. 23 Feb. 9/2: What is the Fives Court [i.e. a centre of boxing] [...] but a college of scoundrelism, where every bullyruffian in the land may gain a fellowship.at bully-ruffian (n.) under bully, n.1
Bombay Gaz. 12 Dec. append. 10/4: Does he know the what Blue ruin is? if he does, can he convey the same ideas in so complete and elegant a manner by any circumlocution.at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
Bombay Gaz. 12 Dec. append. 10/4: [W]ill he deny he does not shampoo the monkey ? —will he deny he does not know what Blue ruin is?at shampoo the monkey (v.) under monkey, n.
Bombay Gaz. 23 Sept. 3/3: [T]wo Portuguese, quite the ‘pinks of fashion,’ walked arm in arm, swaggering about with a most consequential air.at pink, n.
Bombay Gaz. 30 Aug. 3/4: Do, Sir Robert, unbosom yourself of every secret of State policy, or [...] the stock house be shot up from the impossibillty of turtling an honest penny, even to the extent of a turn of the market, and what is emphatically understood there by the slang term of a fiddle.at fiddle, n.3
Bombay Gaz. 6 July 3/4: To call this a ‘modification’ [...] is quite of a piece with the slang which substitutes the word lifting for the good old Saxon word stealing.at lift, v.
Bombay Gaz. 13 Aug. 3/3: Two Conductors, three Sub-Conductors, four Inspectors and as many under-writers and copyists walked Spanish, before they knew whether their boots were on.at walk Spanish (v.) under walk, v.
Bombay Gaz. 3 Aug. 4/2: Many of them had adopted a disgraceful custom, well known in some regiments by the slangnlame of cagging [...] ‘Cag’ we believe to imply [...] an abstinence for a limited and fixed period, from the use of ardent spirits.at cag, v.
Bombay Gaz. 27 Dec. 7/3: The night was pitch dark; and the two gentlemen, pretty well screwed, as the slang goes. walked into the wrong gharries—the civilian into the Major's and the Major into the civilian’s.at screwed, adj.
Bombay Gaz. 10 Aug. 3/6: In my opinion this is, to use a slang phrase, sheer humbug.at humbug, n.
Bombay Gaz. 29 Dec. 2/6: Yankeedom could not afford to go to war with Brazil.at -dom, sfx
Bombay Gaz. 8 July 5/7: For good downright hearty abuse — for unscrupulous allegation, extravagant exaggeration, and colonial lying [...] in the realm of ‘jaw,’ the Department has an undisputed prerogative.at jaw, n.
Bombay Gaz. 27 Sept. 3/: [orig. US source] As regards the candidates fee the Presidency the Times correspondent at new York says that General Fremont is, in the current slang, ‘nowhere’.at nowhere, adj.
Bombay Gaz. 29 Dec. 2/6: Yankeedom could not afford to go to war with Brazil which it calls in contemptuous slang a one horse power.at one-horse (adj.) under one, adj.
Bombay Gaz. 14 Nov. 4/4: Officers and non-commissioned officers are slanged before the privates, that not in choice language.at slang, v.1
Bombay Gaz. 4 Sept. 3/4: My Parsee nickname may lead many of your griffin readers to suppose that it signifies ‘a runaway,’ and this error may damage my future prospeem in life.at griffin, n.1
Bombay Gaz. 4 Sept. 3/4: ‘Helter skelter and Old Nick take the hindermost’.at Old Nick, n.
Bombay Gaz. 4 Sept. 3/4: [A] fellow who flees from his creditors [...] they call him a ‘sloper’.at sloper, n.2
Bombay Gaz. 30 Nov. 3/6: They have no funds, but their supply of what is called in slang language ‘brass’ is unlimited.at brass, n.1
Bombay Gaz. : One heard nothing but the new slang phrase, now so popular with the gamins of London, and which was practically illustrated on an extensive scale among the mob, of ‘I’ll have your hat!’ .at I’ll have your hat! (excl.) under hat, n.
Bombay Gaz. 1 Nov. 2/3: The ‘Squire’ put him on the shockingly slang ‘Shocking Mamma’ for the Cesarewitch.at slang, adj.
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