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(con. 1547) Huddersfield Chron. 23 Aug. 2/3: [She] now lies in the next apartment dying from the horrid Neapolitan disease.at Neapolitan, adj.
(con. 1547) Huddersfield Chron. 23 Aug. 2/3: [She] now lies in the next apartment dying from the horrid Neapolitan disease. Huddersfield Chron. 22 May 3/1: But what I am waiting see, / My Buck, is your power to invent.at buck, n.1
Huddersfield Chron. 22 May 3/1: It proved you were up to accounts, / And possess’d of a decent ‘chalk head’.at chalk-head (n.) under chalk, n.1
Huddersfield Chron. 10 Mar. 3/1: The common soldier is the red-herring, and the officer is the bloater.at bloater, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 10 Mar. 3/1: The common soldier is the red-herring, and the officer is the bloater.at red herring (n.) under red, adj.
Huddersfield Chron. 10 Mar. 3/1: The common soldier is the red-herring, and the officer is the bloater.at soldier, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 22 Dec. 4/6: The Thin — And the thick End of the Wedge into the tenant-Right Interest.at thick end (n.) under thick, adj.
Huddersfield Chron. 2 Aug. 3/3: ‘Tare an ouns,’ says I, ‘do you tell me so?’.at tare an’ ouns!, excl.
Huddersfield Chron. 2 Aug. 3/3: It was blwin’ like bloody murder, savin’ your presence.at like blue murder (adv.) under blue murder, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 30 Aug. 3/6: By the hokey — a drum!at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
Huddersfield Chron. 2 Aug. 3/3: So, says I, captain jewel, I wish we had a gridiron.at jewel, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 2 Aug. 3/3: ‘Oh, murther, murther, captain darlint,’ says I.at murder!, excl.
Huddersfield Chron. (Yorks.) 28 June 3/5: John, when his pa’s in his coffin, / Comes into three-hundred a year.at pa, n.1
Huddersfield Chron. (Yorks.) 28 June 3/5: You’ve pouched the good gentleman’s money.at pouch, v.1
Huddersfield Chron. (Yorks) 30 Aug. 6/4: We can have shab-rag mayors, and shab-rag aldermen.at shab-rag, adj.
Huddersfield Chron. (Yorks.) 28 June 3/5: Scrag Jane, while I spiflicate Johnny.at scrag, v.
Huddersfield Chron. (Yorks.) 28 June 3/5: I’ll be back in a couple of shakes.at two shakes (n.) under shake, n.1
Huddersfield Chron. (Yorks.) 28 June 3/5: Scrag Jane, while I spiflicate Johnny.at spiflicate, v.
Huddersfield Chron. (Yorks.) 28 June 3/5: They say their ‘ta! ta!’ as they start.at ta-ta, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 2 Aug. 3/3: ‘Thunder and turf,’ says he.at thunder and turf! (excl.) under thunder!, excl.
Huddersfield Chron. 5 Apr. 6/1: On the complainant replying that he had no wish to fight, the defendant called him a ‘tow rag,’ and struck him twice on the face.at toerag, n.1
Huddersfield Chron. 25 Apr. 5/3: He was aware of the value of ‘soft sawder’. and knew how to apply it dextrously.at soft sawder, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 29 May 3/1: ‘Well, be the rovin’ turf [...] ye’re the dashin’ dacent boy all out’.at all out, adv.
Huddersfield Chron. 29 May 3/1: ‘[...] if I amn’t, bad scran to me!’.at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
Huddersfield Chron. 16 Oct. 3/1: The poet cocketh his nose, and talketh bobbishly.at bobbishly, adj.
Huddersfield Chron. 23 Oct. 4/5: Passing along New-street [...] were to be seen [...] two females handcuffed together — and two policemen [...] one each side of the manacled women! Now the resort in this instance to the ‘iron-bracelet’ as the police reproachfully designate the handcuff [etc].at bracelets, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 20 Feb. 3/5: Let’s think no more about it, but join giblets to rob the natives here.at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 29 May 3/1: ‘Sure yer reverence wudn’t think o’ disgracin’ a beauty like that wi’ sich a gomeral’.at gomeral, n.
Huddersfield Chron. 12 June 8/2: When he (complainant) came down, he was addressed as ‘Lord Muck’.at Lord Muck (n.) under muck, n.1
Huddersfield Chron. 29 May 3/1: ‘Be the power o’ yer grate gran’mother’s pot-stick [...] an’ a spanker it was’.at spanker, n.2
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