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Man about Town 18 Sept. 2/3: [T]he favourite has been ‘got at’ and ‘doctored’.at get at, v.
Man about Town 18 Sept. 2/3: [T]he favourite has been ‘got at’ and ‘doctored’. Man about Town 9 Oct. 34/3: The karamzodeh seemed to measure their obtrusive civility by their prospects of backshish.at baksheesh, n.
Man about Town 9 Oct. 34/3: His manner was deuced important, and I felt disposed to give him bamboo backshish.at bamboo baksheesh (n.) under bamboo, n.
Man about Town 16 Oct. 43/3: [A] meagre set of decrepid creatures [...] who were wont to bear bonneting bravely and chaff cheerily.at bonnet, v.
Man about Town 9 Oct. 34/3: A flash, off-hand way among our youth more suitable to budmashes than gora log.at budmash, n.
Man about Town 13 Nov. 76/3: Hear the loud and boastful swells, Brazen swells! What a tale of buncombe now their oath-crammed language tells.at bunkum, n.
Man about Town 6 Nov. 69/1: The three-card man and the Welsher, The very fast man and the slow.at three-card (monte) man (n.) under three-card monte, n.
Man about Town 13 Nov. 79/3: [of a falcon’s talons] [H]is ‘grappling irons’ were a ‘caution’ — at least to me.at caution, n.
Man about Town 23 Oct. 51/3: A large amount of ‘Chammy’ was consumed.at cham, n.2
Man about Town 13 Nov. 79/2: The reply which I made to Master Cloddipole’s remark was, inquisitively put.at clodpoll, n.
Man about Town 16 Oct. 44/1: We have often heard ‘drinks’ asked for at restaurants by funny names. Thus ‘Stout and Porter’ is always called for as ‘Cooper,’ and ‘Old and Bitter’ as ‘Mother-in-Law’.at cooper, n.
Man about Town 4 Dec. 102/3: My mare was done as ‘crisp as a biscuit,’ [...] and refused to budge.at crisp, adj.2
Man about Town 30 Oct. 57/3: [P]ortents shadowing forth future upheavals and disruptions in the ‘upper crust’.at upper crust, n.
Man about Town 9 Oct. 34/3: A nut kut, with a cigar in his mouth, told me they were rococo [...] His manner was deuced important and I felt disposed to give him bamboo backshish.at nut-cut, n.
Man about Town 9 Oct. 36/3: I was pleased to see the abode of my friends the Lardidardies, who are living in great discomfort at the back, still hermetically sealed.at la-di-da(h), n.1
Man about Town 9 Oct. 35/3: [Underwriters] know what ‘dead’ uns and ‘stiff’ uns are quite as well as they do on the turf.at dead ’un, n.2
Man about Town 23 Oct. 55/3: So I backed them, at various odds, for a ‘place’ and with a ‘start’—and very satisfactory results. Done—in ponies? Done and done [...] In ponies! Would it had been monkeys.at do, v.1
Man about Town 18 Sept. 13/3: I’ll go that pusson — Tommy Dodd — / Four four of old Jamaiky.at tommy dodd, n.1
Man about Town 11 Dec. 107/1: No more shall honest men be sent to quod, / But only those who play at Tommy Dodd.at tommy dodd, n.1
Man about Town 18 Sept. 13/1: Miss Poodlefaker, of Manchester, informs me tnat Scarborough is charming.at poodle-faker, n.
Man about Town 23 Oct. 52/3: Why, the fresh, fair, unfatigued faces of the rosebud garden of girls, in their pretty morning gear, at Sir Poodle Faker’s, is worth a wilderness of dinners with the same treasures resplendent in the trappings of Worth or Elise.at poodle-faker, n.
Man about Town 2 Oct. 29/3: As darkly looked he at the writs, / And muttered, ‘Here’s a go!’.at go, n.1
Man about Town 9 Oct. 34/3: A flash, off-hand way among our youth more suitable to budmashes than gora log.at gora log under gora, n.1
Man about Town 13 Nov. 79/3: [of a falcon’s talons] [H]is ‘grappling irons’ were a ‘caution’ — at least to me.at grappling iron, n.
Man about Town 13 Nov. 77/1: For the ear distinctly tells, / ’Mid the jawing And haw-hawing, / How the side is put on by these swells.at hee-haw, v.
Man about Town 18 Sept. 10/3: [A] crack horse named ‘Immenschikoff’ was entered for one of the great events, was selected by all the ‘tips’ as a safe winner.at immensikoff, n.
Man about Town 16 Oct. 44/1: We have often heard ‘drinks’ asked for at restaurants by funny names. Thus ‘Stout and Porter’ is always called for as ‘Cooper,’ and ‘Old and Bitter’ as ‘Mother-in-Law’.at mother-in-law, n.
Man about Town 6 Nov. 69/1: How often—oh, how often ! I have wished for some one to say, ‘I’ll kick you to the middle of next week’.at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
Man about Town 18 Sept. 15/2: [Y]ou could on the pier gladden your eyes with more ‘leg’ fascination than even the Alhambra itself could display.at leg inspector (n.) under leg, n.
Man about Town 2 Oct. 29/2: [O]ther kinds of discipline, only tolerated because the venue is London-super-Mare, instead of London.at London-by-the-Sea (n.) under London, n.
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