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Censor (London) 25 Jan. 5/2: Tare and ajes! I am kilt by that Gutter Commissioner.at tare an’ ages!, excl.
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 5/2: Tare and ajes! I am kilt by that Gutter Commissioner. Censor (London) 18 Jan. 3/3: [T]hat most comical of bag-men ‘all around my hat’ Hansel, who gave a gipsey woman into custody for asking him the time, believing [...] that she had a design upon his gold watch.at all around my hat, phr.
Censor (London) 11 Jan. 6/1: [S]ome staid-looking, powdered, yellow-coated personage, who calmly takes down the wager, and ‘books it’.at book, v.1
Censor (London) 18 Jan. 3/1: How it happens that our brother of the quill should be blessed with such temperament we cannot say.at brother of the quill (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 6/1: The company [...] consisted, [...] of all sorts, from the sporting and betting men, gaming house-keepers, coupiers [sic], and sharps of dliforent denominations [...] to the scientific professor of thimble-rigging. The assembled party were under the auspices of Charles Pitcher Atkins [...] and Jem Grey.at charley-pitcher, n.
Censor (London) 18 Jan. 5/3: [C]oal is very abundant in China, which will account for their readiners [sic] in ‘posting the coal’ after they were beaten by the English.at post (down) the cole (v.) under cole, n.
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 5/2: I am kilt by that Gutter Commissioner. But I’ll yet cook his gosling! The spalpeen.at cook someone’s goose, v.
Censor (London) 18 Jan. 6/1: [C]ounter-jumpers in the wholesale rag trade.at counter-jumper, n.
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 6/1: It was said that the tables had been turned upon themselves, dispatchers were stopped, faked dice and cards were made evidences against them.at dispatcher, n.
Censor (London) 18 Jan. 3/1: [W]e would not have hesitated to dust his jacket with a double thong dog whip.at dust someone’s jacket (v.) under dust, v.1
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 3/2: All will conclude, all must agree, / That ’twas unwise of Mr. B., / To introduce such fiddle de dee.at fiddledeedee, n.
Censor (London) 4 Jan. 6/2: [A] dentist, in a fashionable street [...] charging one guinea for the removal of a troublesome grinder.at grinder, n.1
Censor (London) 4 Jan. 6/1: medical students and cigar hells [...] a vast number of shops have been opened, [...] with words in large letters, denoting the particular place to be a cigar divan.at hell, n.
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 3/2: Soon Bradbury a chaplain got, / Who told them all to shun the pot. / And not at Beeton’s to quaff their hot.at hot, n.
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 5/2: Poke up (to the jack pudding) the Horse-marine with the long pole, and bid him tip the genlemen a chaunt.at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
Censor (London) 11 Jan. 6/1: The turf has always been the centre of legism, aristocratic and plebeian.at leg, n.
Censor (London) 4 Jan. 6/1: [A] gentleman [...] had been in the of calling on him during business hours, for the purpose of ‘getting a line’.at get a line on (v.) under line , n.1
Censor (London) 18 Jan. 3/1: A fellow named Etheridge, a middy in the East India service [...] was charged with a most brutal assault.at middy, n.
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 5/2: ‘Here you will see the muff and swell what made it a crime to ring a muffin bell’.at muff, n.2
Censor (London) 11 Jan. 6/2: [T]he den [is]called the ‘Little Nick,’ an association with the common designation of a low hell, where the stakes are of copper of any denomination.at nick, n.3
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 5/1: H]is triumph was equal to Paddy’s stocking—footless, and without a leg.at Paddy’s stocking (n.) under Paddy, n.
Censor (London) 4 Jan. 5/1: But John, at length discerning, / The rogues were fond of pelf.at pelf, n.
Censor (London) 18 Jan. 6/1: [C]ounter-jumpers in the wholesale rag trade.at rag trade (n.) under rag, n.1
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 5/3: Oh! I’m one of the Whigs, oft yclept thimblerigs.at thimble-rigger, n.
Censor (London) 4 Jan. 2/3: But Time will surely soon divulge / This secret to the nation, / That rogues in grain alone indulge / In games of speculation.at rogue in grain (n.) under rogue, n.
Censor (London) 18 Jan. 6/2: [H]e actually would undertak e to remove snaggs as he called teeth.at snag, n.1
Censor (London) 25 Jan. 5/2: Ambition's Delilah eut off my love locks, / And gave me my ticket for soup.at ticket for soup (n.) under ticket, n.1
Censor (London) 11 Jan. 5/2: The poor fellows who suffer the knout of the tyrant [...] are well supplied with linen, as they have plenty of Russian towelling.at towel, v.
Censor (London) 4 Jan. 4/2: [The twaddling imbecility of a Tyrrell [...] the drivelling cant of a praise-god Plunkett.at twaddle, v.
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