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Hull Packet 30 May 4/2: It was too continued a sound to be a signal among night walkers.at night walker, n.
Hull Packet 30 May 4/2: It was too continued a sound to be a signal among night walkers. Hull Packet 15 Dec. 4/3: ‘Och, murder!’ says I, ‘is that Tim!’ ‘By Jagers, it is,’ says he.at bejabers!, excl.
Hull Packet 23 Mar. 3/3: ‘Od rot and sink it’ said he.at od rot it! under od, n.
Hull Packet 9 Feb. 4/2: A Wholesale Resurrectionist John Hannah [...] was brought up at the late Salford Sessions [...] having pleaded guilty to [...] having a dead body in his possession.at resurrectionist (n.) under resurrection, n.
Hull Packet 11 Jan. 13/2: Let everything in Old England still be done openly and above board.at above board, adv.
Hull Packet 25 Nov. 4/1: When I was young I wrote a book and sold it in ‘the Row’.at Row, the, n.
Hull Packet 31 May 3/1: My friend, you were druink on your beat, and I was freshish.at fresh, adj.1
Hull Packet 5 May 3/6: He protested that mary had never behaved to him as a wife and that she had amputated her mahogany to such an extent going to a neighbour’s, that he had to do everything himself.at amputate one’s mahogany, v.
Hull Packet 19 May 3/1: The Circus — Popowitz, the Jean Potage of the arena, took his benefit last night, and was well rewarded.at jean potage, n.
Hull Packet (Yorks) 17 Oct. 6/4: ‘Jack, I didn’t think you would have robbed me.’ Prisoner answered, ’Well, I’ve done it, and I suppose it will be seven pennorth for me—’ meaning [...] it would be seven years transportation.at seven pennorth (n.) under seven, adj.
Hull Packet 24 Dec. 5/3: Mrs Binns saw the piece of shirt, and said, Bluey (meaning a labourer on the railway) had a shirt like this.at bluey, n.1
Hull Packet 31 Jan. 7/5: After that [successful robbery], I found London was getting a little ‘hot,’ and went to Nottingham.at hot, adj.
Hull Packet 31 Jan. 7/5: He was [...] taught a science which in slang phraseology is known by the name of ‘paltrooning.’ This ‘paltrooning’ is something after this fashion. The woman [...] went out into the street, with a bell to her pocket, and a purse with sixpence in it, and if the lad, while she was looking into a shop-window, could get the purse and sixpenice without ringing the bell, he had the sixpence for his pains, but if he rang the bell, he got a good thrashing.at paltrooning, n.
Hull Packet 5 Sept. 4/5: A ‘tranquil spot’ [...] We have long regarded Hedon as the ‘Sleepy Hollow’ of Holderness.at Sleepy Hollow, n.
Hull Packet 10 Feb. 8/2: When apprehended he was very violent, and swore like a trooper.at like a trooper (adv.) under trooper, n.1
Hull Packet (Yorks.) 13 Oct. 5/6: The showman is a wit — he says ‘no shemale gals here’.at shemale, adj.
Hull Packet 6 Apr. 5/2: Don’t ‘round on a pal’.at round (on), v.
Hull Packet 6 Apr. 5/2: Master Bobby is caught [...] rolling home [...] ‘a wee bit squiffy’.at squiffy, adj.
Hull Packet 25 June 3/1: Bud reflected with pleasure that her trophies would make the other girls ‘as mad as hops’.at mad as..., adj.
Hull Packet 25 June 3/1: The Bud still went at it, as mad as hops, and as smiling as a basket of chips.at basket of chips (n.) under basket, n.1
Hull Packet 25 June 3/1: She despised steady girls, and called them ’whopper-jawed’.at whopper-jawed, adj.
Hull Packet 25 June 2/6: Bud attempted to become what was called in society a screaming success.at screaming, adj.
Hull Packet 25 June 3/1: People played lawn tennis, at which sport [...] she was ‘no slouch’.at slouch, n.
Hull Packet 17 Feb. 6/1: [He] was asked what he was doing in a certain saloon at a certain time. He explained that he had gone there to ‘change his breath.’ The explanation was accepted.at change one’s breath (v.) under change, v.
Hull Packet 14 Dec. 3/1: The can’t allow the Mahdi / To ’come the lardy-dardy’.at come the lardy-dardy (v.) under lardy-dardy, adj.
Hull Packet 9 Jan. 6/4: The ‘Dock Rats’’ Life: American Water ‘Pirates’ [...] The gangs that make a living by pilfering articles from boats and piers.at dock rat (n.) under dock, n.2
Hull Packet 30 Jan. 5/3: I am ‘goldarned’ [...] I may say this is an Americanism.at goldarned, adj.
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