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Mirror of Life 9 June 2/3: We got a dispatch, which said play all in on an ‘air-tight’.at airtight, adj.
Mirror of Life 9 June 2/3: We got a dispatch, which said play all in on an ‘air-tight’. Mirror of Life 3 Feb. 3/2: Some of the music hall artists have a high old time ‘stringing’ along brainless chaps who become infatuated with them.at string (along), v.
Mirror of Life 17 Feb. 7/1: He turned up ‘as black as a nigger’.at black as..., adj.
Mirror of Life 13 Oct. 2/4: They [i.e. two boxers] were both game as pebbles.at ...a pebble under game as..., adj.
Mirror of Life 30 June 7/3: ‘What! a chawbacon attempt to beat Jack Slack!’ .at chaw-bacon, n.
Mirror of Life 3 Mar. 2/4: what ‘baldheads’ admire [...] The ballet girl appears to be as attractive as ever, and her performance generally draws the old men in large numbers.at baldhead, n.
Mirror of Life 3 Mar. 2/2: A poor Chinaman is satisfied with a two-days’ ‘bat’.at bat, n.3
Mirror of Life 20 Jan. 6/4: [of punch] An over-indulgence in the ‘O be joyfull’.at o-be-joyful, n.
Mirror of Life 15 Dec. 11/4: We don't think any man has much stomach for fight [...] if the belly timber is not supporting the structure, so the black gentleman, receiving some nasty knocks in the victualling region [...] turned it up in the third round.at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
Mirror of Life 13 Jan. 6/4: The monkey belted the dog several times with his bâton.at belt, v.
Mirror of Life 26 May 11/3: Several wives appeared before the magistrate to lodge complaints against their worse halves.at better half, n.
Mirror of Life 15 Sept. 2/4: ‘[Y]oung Blower, [...] always boasting that he would yet do something to arouse the country; whatever became of him?’.at blower, n.2
Mirror of Life 18 Aug. 3/4: ‘I just heard Cholly Addlepate say he was awfully blue’.at blue, adj.1
Mirror of Life 21 July 2/3: ‘Shelp me Moses, der horse vas vorth all I wants for him’.at s’elp me bob!, excl.
Mirror of Life 17 Mar. 15/2: [US speaker] ‘Whoop, bone in, both of y’’.at bone in (v.) under bone, v.1
Mirror of Life 22 Dec, 3/1: [A]n exclamation from Boniface arrested the glass.at boniface, n.
Mirror of Life 22 Sept. 9/4: When the manager tells stories / That are startling and prodigious / [...] / Do not mind him; ’tis a boomlet, / And it does not do.at boom, n.1
Mirror of Life 8 Dec. 3/3: ‘Pa won’t hurt you. If he wanted to, he’d bored you the first crack’.at bore, v.1
Mirror of Life 14 Apr. 11/4: agent: What has become of the India-rubber man?’ Manager: ‘Oh, I bounced him’.at bounce, v.1
Mirror of Life 24 Feb. 11/3: American theatres lack the bouncer who in England always throws out those who guy actors.at bouncer, n.1
Mirror of Life 13 Jan. 12/3: Macers, braces, chippie chasers / What a lovely place Piccadilly is.at bracer, n.2
Mirror of Life 10 Mar. 7/1: Bridget: ‘Indade, mum, I must be lavin’ you.’ Mistress: ‘Why, Bridget, what is the matter? What doesn’t suit?’.at bridget, n.
Mirror of Life 13 Jan. 6/2: Mr. Murphy was always to the front in supporting any of sport, but his favourite pastime was rowing. Several aspirants to aquatic honours owe their ‘bringing out’ to him.at bring out (v.) under bring, v.
Mirror of Life 17 Mar. 11/2: Green finished shaving one-half of his coloured brother's queershaped head.at brother, n.
Mirror of Life 21 July 3/1: ‘I've married Tim [...] I have not had a chance to write afore, cause it's now only two years since I got buckled’.at buckle, v.
Mirror of Life 24 Feb. 14/1: This buffalo soldier, as the Indians called them on account of their woolly heads [...] concluded to whip Billy the Kid.at buffalo soldier (n.) under buffalo, n.1
Mirror of Life 15 Dec. 11/3: There would have been no champion [...] had not Sergeant Green seen that the lad had his half a pound of ‘bull’ per diem when training.at bull, n.1
Mirror of Life 26 May 14/1: I refused to be buncoed or bulldozed.at bulldose, v.
Mirror of Life 3 Nov. 15/3: ‘You’re the bulliest sailor that comes into this port and you can lick anything’.at bully, adj.2
Mirror of Life 4 Aug. 3/4: A bummer is not a thing of beauty, yet his breed live for ever.at bummer, n.3
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