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Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: ‘The Cut and Run Club’ This city has been long been infested by its members, and their depredations upon [...] the keepers of boarding-houses.at cut and run, v.
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: ‘The Cut and Run Club’ This city has been long been infested by its members, and their depredations upon [...] the keepers of boarding-houses. Owl (NY) 11 Sept. n.p.: O ye gods and little fishes.at ye gods (and little fishes)!, excl.
Owl (NY) 14 Aug. n.p.: She had for ten years been conspicuous for her dress, airs, and ‘beau catchers’; but, alas! she [...] had caught no beau.at beau-catcher (n.) under beau, n.1
Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: [He frequents a certain house in Orange Street, occupied by several black and white bitches [...] he must be void of shame and decency.at bitch, n.1
Owl (NY) 14 Aug. n.p.: That butcher whose face is covered with rum-blossoms.at rum blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: J.G.M. [i.e. a merchant] has burst his boiler not less than three times [...] by sailing upon the high-pressure principle.at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: He had a [...] perception that these ‘sworn friends’ had been sacrificing too freely at the shrine of Bacchus [...] Mr Boniface may yet feel in ‘pentitential mood’ for his mistake.at boniface, n.
Owl (NY) 14 Aug. n.p.: [T]hose base deceivers, called bosses.at boss, n.2
Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: [H]e has cabbaged enough from his master to buy a pair of boots.at cabbage, v.1
Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: F.P. might have repented any attempt to ‘Mall a Charley’.at mall a charlie (v.) under charlie, n.1
Owl (NY) 14 Aug. n.p.: Or chance of a tumble, / As in chay, gig or whisky .at chay, n.
Owl (NY) 14 Aug. n.p.: ‘Why, you must be quite a fool.’ ‘No, I ben’t quite,’ said Clod drily, ‘ but I be very near one’.at clod, n.1
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: Rikeman was fond of a drop.at drop, n.4
Owl (NY) 11 Sept. n.p.: For further information [...] forty-’leven Shin Bone Alley, up stairs.at forty-eleven (adj.) under forty, adj.1
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: Goramighty make de first man or woman.at gaw, n.
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: The very decent folks who live in Clinton street [...] are respectfully requested to desist from causing golden showers to descend from their attic; it is very unpleasant to be caught in one of them.at golden shower, n.
Owl (NY) 14 Aug. n.p.: A black female, whom he guzzled out of her hot corn, by giving her a pewter 25 cent piece.at guzzle, v.2
Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: ‘I would rather be dead’ / Than tied to a fiery young jilt, / For antlers would grow on my head.at horn, n.1
Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: ‘I would rather be dead’ / Than tied to a fiery young jilt.at jilt, n.1
Owl (NY) 11 Sept. n.p.: E.K. has promised to administer to W.C. [...] ‘a dose of medicine that would purge his malignant disposition’.at medicine, n.
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: Their clamour with respect to ‘Tubs and Firkins’ is all moonshine.at moonshine, n.
Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: A loan of ‘The one thing Needful’ to alleviate their sufferings.at needful, n.
Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: [He] is trying to make people believe he goes to see pigeons, but instead of pigeons is all the while rumning after the girls.at pigeon, n.1
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: He will hear how broken crockery ware sells in Greenwich street, and how pay is taken in the cellar [...] he will hear from the crockery girl.at pitcher, n.1
Owl (NY) 25 Sept. n.p.: Who has got them Rabbits, and what have they done with them, they skinned them.at rabbit, n.1
Owl (NY) 14 Aug. n.p.: Inform a certain Lottery Vender [sic] [...] not again to take two dollar pledges from a poor labouring man [...] or I will give him a taste of the red jacket.at red jacket (n.) under red, adj.
Owl (NY) 14 Aug. n.p.: The Stitchlouse caught what he terms a malignant fever of sal.at stitch-louse (n.) under stitch, n.1
Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: One of our city Aldermen has a pretty considerable twist, and [...] he can dissect a turkey with excellent dexterity.at twist, n.2
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