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Hull Packet 9 Oct. 4/4: The Match for 25gs each, p. p. one mile, between Mr Cooper’s br. gelding, No Great Shakes, and Mr Hincks’s bay gelding. Worse and Worse.at great shakes (n.) under shake, n.1
Hull Packet 9 Oct. 4/4: The Match for 25gs each, p. p. one mile, between Mr Cooper’s br. gelding, No Great Shakes, and Mr Hincks’s bay gelding. Worse and Worse. 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 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 8 Nov. 4/3: In a large establishment, where [...] the employer had suffered much from the effects of ‘Blue Monday,’ he re-solved to alter his pay day, and has for some time paid on Monday. [...] the wives of many of his men have thanked him, with tears in their eyes, for the change.at blue Monday, 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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