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Leicester Chron. 4 Apr. 1/2: [poem title] Tommy Trim and the Resurrection Man.at resurrection man (n.) under resurrection, n.
Leicester Chron. 4 Apr. 1/2: [poem title] Tommy Trim and the Resurrection Man. Leicester Chron. 21 July 4/4: Finding all his efforts to ‘shuffle off this mortal coil’ unavailing, he jumped up.at shuffle (off) (this/one’s mortal coil) (v.) under shuffle, v.
Leicester Chron. 31 Aug. 4/4: ‘We come to get the woman liberated, as we think a month’s gaol for few words is hard cheese’.at hard cheese (n.) under hard, adj.
Leicester Chron. 8 Nov. 3/5: They [...] are afraid you’ll fob them off with some of that stuff, on which you got such a large discount.at fob someone off (v.) under fob, v.
Leicester Chron. 13 Sept. 3/1: To pay two sovs. entrance and 10s. to the Clerk [...] If only one horse enters [...] to be allowed 10 sovs, if two five sovs. each.at sov, n.
Leics. Chron. 12 June 3/3: They had but one pair of legs between them, and each sported a new timber-toe.at timber-toe, n.
Leicester Chron. 21 Apr. 3/6: Ald. Gregory said he was a rummish friend to make him drunk.at rummish (adj.) under rum, adj.
Leicester Chron. 9 Feb. 3/4: They had, he stated (in the dialect of Cockney-land) taken in the public houses two lawses —sweethearts like (with a knowing wink).at Cockneyland (n.) under Cockney, adj.
Leicester Chron. 19 Jan. 4/4: ‘Well, may I be “spiflicated,”’ exclaimed the master chimney sweep, ‘if this arn’t werry hard lines’.at spiflicate, v.
Leicester Chron. 30 July 1/3: He himself caught several of the ‘clouts’ which were liberally dealt on all sides.at clout, n.2
Leicester Chron. 23 Sept. 1/2: By instituting proceedings in the said Court against our Radical Parson, if he be not so terrified by Mr Timber-toe’s threatening hints.at timber-toe, n.
Leicester Chron. 25 Aug. 1/2: The fishermen think they [i.e. seals] come up the river in pursuit of salmon, for which [...] they have a ‘lickerish tooth’.at lickerish, adj.
Leicester Chron. 19 Oct. 4/1: The assault was a bread and butter affair.at bread-and-butter, adj.
Leicester Chron. 27 Apr. 4/5: The tirade by ‘him of the Journal’ was caused by a fit of the mulligrubs.at mulligrubs, n.
Leicester Chron. 25 July 3/6: My eyes and limbs, who’s been here?at my eye(s)!, excl.
Leicester Chron. 26 Sept. 4/2: Defendants [...] had been heard to express their intention to go to the statue at Blaby, and ‘kick up a shine’.at kick up a shine (v.) under shine, n.2
Leicester Chron. 15 Oct. 4/1: My father did nothing for me, except to help my mother to lick me when I was obstropolous.at obstropolous, adj.
Leicester Chron. 15 Oct. 4/1: A Yankee in Boston has set up a one-horse thrashing machine [...] He’ll ‘lick’ an urchin like thunder for fourpence.at thunder, n.
Leicester Chron. 17 June 4/6: Here’s a chance; here’s a bloak with plenty of ‘oaker’.at bloke, n.
Leicester Chron. 11 Nov. 3/1: We have received three poetic communications [...] The last is, so far, to our thinking, the ’bast of the bunch’.at bunch, n.1
Leicester Chron. 17 June 4/6: Here’s a chance; here’s a bloak with plenty of ‘oaker’.at ochre, n.
Leicester Chron. 2 Mar. 1/6: You may go to bed worth a plum and rise not worth a groat.at worth a plum (adj.) under plum, n.2
Leicester Chron. 7 Nov. 3/4: Dressed in a dark cloth coat [...] new Blucher boots, and an old Bendigo cap.at bendigo, n.
Leicester Chron. 9 May 1/3: Stone charged the complainant with keeping prostitutes, and he returned the charge by saying that Stone had kept a gay house for seven years.at gay house (n.) under gay, adj.
Leics. Chron. 26 Oct. 4/1: The Prince of Wales and four or five rattled-brained fellows like himself.at rattle-head, n.
Leics. Chron. 26 Oct. 4/1: ‘Ah, the old times was the racketty times!’.at rackety, adj.
Leicester Chron. 8 May 8/2: The crackbrain individual calling himself ‘Baron de Gamin’ [...] delivered [...] another of his rabid lectures.at crackbrain, n.
Leicester Chron. 20 Jan. 3/6: The meeting three times on a Sunday, of a sect calling themselves ‘the Hallelujah Band’ [...] are most disgraceful.at hallelujah, adj.
Leicester Chron. 9 Oct. 8/3: There is a marriage ‘on the carpet’ in the Kirk family.at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
Leicester Chron. 20 June 4/3: He is what is vulgarly termed ‘dead nuts’ on cornflour.at dead nuts, adv.
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