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Inverness Courier 3 Oct. 2/5: He is a Highland gentleman [...] let him put on his Tail, or personal escort, and strut about as a piper or a bubbly-jock.at bubbly jock, n.
Inverness Courier 3 Oct. 2/5: He is a Highland gentleman [...] let him put on his Tail, or personal escort, and strut about as a piper or a bubbly-jock. Inverness Courier 25 Apr. 2/5: John Smith, alias Frenchie [was] charged with house breaking and theft.at Frenchie, n.1
Inverness Courier 23 Jan. 4/4: You’ll all go home happy, as sure as a gun.at sure as a gun under sure as..., phr.
Inverness Courier 20 Dec. 4/1: His heart so heavy got — / [...] / So round his melancholy neck / A rope he did entwine. / [...] / And there he hung, till he was dead / [...] / For though distress had cut him up, it could not cut him down.at cut up, v.3
Inverness Courier 20 Dec. 4/1: Before you had those timber toes / Your love I did allow, / But then, you know, you stand upon / Another footing now.at timber-toe, n.
Inverness Courier 9 Mar. 2/4: As spring approaches the cacklers [...] wing their way to the far Highlands, where they breed.at cackler, n.2
Inverness Courier 12 Dec. 3/4: THe tenantry pledged the health of the Laird and his lady in overflowing bumpers of mountain dew.at mountain dew, n.
Inverness Courier 1 Oct. 5/3: A straight forward Englishman with a dash of blunt John Bullism about him.at John Bullism (n.) under John Bull, n.1
Inverness Courier 17 June 6/2: Our Johnny Newcome finds himself dining in company. The company talk and act in a style new to him.at johnny newcome (n.) under johnny, n.1
Inverness Courier 10 Mar. 3/4: The Miss Nancified pronunciation of particular words, half-drawl, half-lisp.at Miss-Nancyfied (adj.) under Miss Nancy, n.
Inverness Courier 23 Aug. 8/1: The champion of the Church being bent on running what may be aptly termed a steeple-chase with the ‘half horse, half alligator’ of Sicily [i.e. Garibaldi].at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
Inverness Courier 16 Feb. 6/3: ‘Dash my skin if I can stand beggary’.at dash my buttons! (excl.) under dash, v.1
Inverness Courier 11 July 6/5: As to the meeting we had with Mr Gladstone [...] he showed his cards frankly.at show one’s cards (v.) under show, v.
Inverness Courier 18 June 1/6: Milk for Sales: Scotch pint 5½d.at Scotch pint (n.) under Scotch, adj.
(ref. to 1878–82) Inverness Courier 10 Apr. 3/6: Kip[ling’s nickname at school [...] was ‘Gig-lamps,’ which was sometimes shortened to ‘Gigger’.at gigger, n.2
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