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Hartlepool Mail 19 Oct. 4/6: Don’t you know, my man, that when a gentleman orders ‘cold tea’ he means whiskey?at cold tea (n.) under cold, adj.
Hartlepool Mail 19 Oct. 4/6: Don’t you know, my man, that when a gentleman orders ‘cold tea’ he means whiskey? Hartlepool Mail 25 Nov. 3/5: Ink Slinging in Texas. Colonel Bill Snort, who runs the Crisby County Clarion, has fallen out with the editor of a rival sheet.at ink-slinging (n.) under ink, n.
Hartlepool Mail 16 Dec. 4/2: I have something in here that will knock the socks off anything in this country [...] he carried a little tin box, labelled ‘Excelsior Corn and Bunion Eradicator’.at knock the socks off (v.) under knock, v.
Hartlepool Mail 3 Aug. 4/3: ‘Highflying’ Youths [...] were each ordered to pay 5s 6d costs for gaming with cards.at high-flying, adj.
Hartlepool Mail 15 Oct. 4/5: Always was a rum ’un to patter. Flash as you like, and artful.at patter, v.
Hartlepool Mail 14 Aug. 4/6: Flip — Small beer, brandy, and sugar.at flip, n.1
Hartlepool Mail 24 May 4/3: Mr Rooney [...] with his faithful shillelagh, casts about for a reasonable pretext for a quarrel, for indeed her was just ‘blue-mouldy for a fight’.at blue mouldy (adj.) under mouldy, adj.
Hartlepool Mail 8 Oct. 4/3: Whenever a youngster espies a [...] ‘kid-catcher’ — he almost invariably shows a clean pair of heels.at kid catcher (n.) under kid, n.1
Hartlepool Mail 3 Apr. 3/3: An old saying whih used to be applied to the stout-ankled ladies of the Palatine, namely, ‘Beef to the heels, like a Durham heifer’.at beef to the heel(s) (adj.) under beef, n.1
Hartlepool Mail 6 Aug. 3/4: Postmaster Van Cott mutters ‘Jiminy crips’.at jiminy cricket!, excl.
Hartlepool Mail 6 Aug. 3/4: Ex-Senator Platt swears ‘By Caesar,’ and Mr Russell Sage ’By golly’.at by golly! (excl.) under golly!, excl.
Hartlepool Mail 24 Mar. 4/1: [headline] Donald in Queer Street.at in Queer Street under Queer Street, n.
Hartlepool Mail 15 May 3/4: The sensational Ripper murder in New York City.at ripper, n.1
Hartlepool Mail 2 Mar. 4/6: ‘Mark my words, Angy [...] your flirting ways will bring you into trouble. You will [be] a regular garrison hack.’ [...] ‘Oh, Tom’ how can you be so vulgar!’.at garrison hack, n.
Hartlepool Mail 23 Oct. 3/5: He stated that all his feats were performed by ‘human aid’ which [...] is known in the show business as ‘hanky-panky’.at hankypanky, n.
Hartlepool Mail 4 Oct. 3/2: [advt] Who in your opinion Are the best Clothiers and Hatters? [...] I have not the slightest hesitation saying Bennison Brothers Lick in the others into fits.at lick into fits (v.) under lick, v.1
Hartlepool Mail 26 Jan. n.p.: To plant myself outside a shop and try and bluff the rats, / By droppin’ little ’ints abart th misses and the brats.at bluff the rats (v.) under bluff, v.
Hartlepool Mail 26 Jan. n.p.: Dear Bill, my old josser [...] are yer stone-broke and not worth a d.at josser, n.4
Hartlepool Mail 4 June 2/4: Female ‘Bible-thumpers’ (hawkers) who beg under the protection of their ‘stiff,’ or license, frequently have more ‘scran’ than they can possibly eat.at bible-thumper (n.) under bible, n.
Hartlepool Mail 26 Feb. 6/4: China plates, mates.at china (plate), n.
Hartlepool Mail 26 Feb. 6/4: Elephants, elevated, drunk.at elephant’s (trunk), adj.
Hartlepool Mail 26 Feb. 6/4: Fourteen penn'orth, fourteen days imprisonment.at fourteen penn’orth, n.
Hartlepool Mail 21 Apr. 3/5: Evans, commonly known as [...] ‘Gimpy Evans,’ for the reason [...] he is lame.at gimpy, n.
Hartlepool Mail 26 Feb. 6/4: Gibsey's [sic] warning, rhyming slang for morning.at gypsy’s warning, n.1
Hartlepool Mail 21 May 6/5: Oh, I wisht I was a ghost, with a skull for a head / — A really honest-Injun ghost / of someone that is dead!at honest Injun, adj.
Hartlepool Mail 19 Mar. 2/3: I had almost fallen asleep on my mule, when — jumping Jehosaphat! how that mule did jump!at jumping Jehoshaphat!, excl.
Hartlepool Mail 26 Feb. 6/4: Jemmy [sic], a sovereign.at jimmy, n.1
Hartlepool Mail 26 Feb. 6/4: Mike, to evade labour.at mike, v.
Hartlepool Mail 26 Feb. 6/4: Mouse, a contused eye.at mouse, n.
Hartlepool Mail 4 June 2/4: They put up at the recognised hotel of their class — the ‘padding ken’.at padding ken (n.) under pad, v.1
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