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Wkly Rake (NY) 27 Aug. n.p.: Look out, or your head may be as horn-y as your lady’s other affair .at affair, n.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 27 Aug. n.p.: Look out, or your head may be as horn-y as your lady’s other affair . Wkly Rake (NY) 6 Aug. n.p.: The Whip may be made a tip-top, bang-up, slap-dash, first chop, out-and-out sporting sheet.at out-and-out, adj.
Wkly Rake (NY) 9 July n.p.: [a toast] ‘The Editors of the Flash and the Rake — friends to the ladies — may they always be able to furnish and insert good long articles to the gratification of their female patrons’’.at article, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 6 Aug. n.p.: The Whip may be made a tip-top, bang-up, slap-dash, first chop, out-and-out sporting sheet.at bang-up, adj.
Wkly Rake (NY) 3 Sept. n.p.: Lor pa! what’s them red things you has on your nose?’ ‘Pimples, child [...] Barnacles’ .at barnacles, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 30 July n.p.: wants to knowWhether Moll S. did that thing with the ‘countryman’ just for beans, as she said.at bean, n.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 13 Aug. n.p.: Broadway Characters [...] Gawky Jim L— A beanpole hidden by a shirt.at beanpole, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 6 Aug. n.p.: The Whip may be made a tip-top, bang-up, [...] sporting sheet, and beat the Spirit of the Times all to rags.at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
Wkly Rake (NY) 12 Nov. n.p.: the rake wants to know If the beef-headed blower [...] hadn’t better find some other employment than that of snooping into people’s drawers.at beefheaded (adj.) under beefhead, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 3 Sept. n.p.: ‘A bold stroke for a husband,’ as the woman said who caught her worser half in bed with the chambermaid .at better half, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 24 Sept. n.p.: He is infatuated with a resident of this brothel, and gets bled profusely by his Dulcinea .at bleed, v.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 3 Sept. n.p.: Pepper well at the knowledge box — blind if you can .at knowledge box, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 18 June n.p.: the rake advises [...] Jeweller Jim [...] to remember that ‘buttered buns are sometimes burnt’.at buttered bun, n.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 13 Aug. n.p.: the rake wants to knowWhat regular buster was seen going into a respectable Dwelling house, in East Broadway, the other evening.at buster, n.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 30 July n.p.: wants to knowIf shilling calico is not plenty near the corner of F. street.at calico, n.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 26 Nov. n.p.: the rake wants to knowWho got a piece of candy from three women in Broadway last Wednesday evening.at piece of candy (n.) under candy, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 3 Sept. n.p.: Sullivan [...] first entered the ring, and threw up his ‘castor’ .at castor, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 12 Nov. n.p.: ‘His cut-water was just over her cat-heads’.at catheads, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 10 Sept. n.p.: the rake wants to know[I]f he is as fond of English cattle as ever. Take care, like all cattle they are very horny .at cattle, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 27 Aug. n.p.: the rake wants to know What tall Sarah was doing with that cab driver in a vacant oyster celler in Bleecker street [...] if she was showing him how to open oysters or clams .at clam, n.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 9 July n.p.: Tom. Nichols does not go upon the ‘tickle me and I’ll tickle you,’ system.at claw me and I’ll claw you under claw, v.
Wkly Rake (NY) 30 July n.p.: wants to knowWhat Neil Gallagher means by a ‘horse-collar’.at horse-collar, n.
Wkly Rake (NY) 5 Nov. n.p.: ‘I boast a large circle, but none [i.e. ‘beaux’] come regular, only off and on.’ Now we can see nothing very terrible in this short speech [etc].at come, v.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 18 June n.p.: the rake advises [...] R.P. [...] to visit a certain brick crack house only at night, and not let his uncle see him going in and out during the day.at crack house (n.) under crack, n.3
Wkly Rake (NY) 24 Sept. n.p.: Monsieur ‘cribbed’ a piece of cheese — he did like cheese .at crib, v.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 1 Oct. n.p.: Frequented by half-cut swells, gentlemen ‘what live by their wits,’ ‘coves what have seen better days’ [etc].at half-cut, adj.1
Wkly Rake (NY) 12 Nov. n.p.: ‘He had stove in her deadlights with his jib-boom, and his cut-water was just over her cat-heads’.at deadlights (n.) under dead, adj.
Wkly Rake (NY) 5 Nov. n.p.: ‘Oh, yer vants a young woman to take care of yer, and do for yer,’ said a mountain of flesh [...] ‘Yes, my good woman, and I have not the least doubt but you would do for me in the shortest space of time’.at do for, v.
Wkly Rake (NY) 13 Aug. n.p.: the rake wants to know[W]hen Lucy said ‘he could be taken in and done for’ on moderate terms?at do for, v.
Wkly Rake (NY) 30 July n.p.: wants to knowDo you understand, Dorothy Draggletail, of Hudson st?at draggle-tail, n.
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