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Home News for India 7 June 330/1: Ronconi has played Figaro, and admirably full of life and ‘gig’.at gig, n.1
Home News for India 7 June 330/1: Ronconi has played Figaro, and admirably full of life and ‘gig’. Home News for India 24 July 22/2: The Slasher's money is always ready at the Old Bailey, where judicial customers, who want to make ‘slanging’ matches, can at all times be accommodated.at slanging match (n.) under slang, v.1
Home News for India 17 Apr. 19/1: The prisoner Benjamin is a well-known ‘chaffer’ [...] the class of street-mendicants, who go about making appeals to the public in a loud voice [...] It is considered the most productive branch of the mendicant's calling.at chaffer, n.2
Home News for India 17 Apr. 543/1: heartless case of child-dropping. Two slang-looking persons [were] charged with having deserted a child, at the door of the St. Stephen's Head, a well-known public house in Westminster.at child-dropping (n.) under child, n.
Home News for India 17 Apr. 19/1: He [...] thought [...] it was what was known in the street-beggar’s slang as a ‘dummy’—that is, a bundle made up like a child, for the purpose of exciting compassion—a sham-baby.at dummy, n.1
Home News for India 17 Apr. 19/1: The prisoner Benjamin was ‘pattering’ that night, and was using the child for the purpose of exciting compassion.at patter, v.
Home News for India 10 Sept. 16/2: Dr. CULLEN declares that the sacraments shall be refused to those who send their children to the godless [i.e. Protestant] schools [...] calling the poor children who go thither [...] ‘swaddlers’.at swaddler, n.1
Home News for India 26 Feb. 13/2: I feel certain that Mrs. Grundy herself sometimes says things are ‘jolly,’ and qualifies her substantives with the adjective ‘awful’.at awful, adj.
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