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Key to the Picture of the Fancy Going to a Fight at Moulsey-Hurst, London choose

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[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 17: From the Swell Inn down to the little hedge Lushing Crib the Bonifaces are all awake.
at awake, adj.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 24: [T]hose who have no grocery, and want change for a bender.
at bender, n.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 14: Jew rampers, who are endeavouring to mace the Swell Benjamins.
at benjamin, n.2
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 34: This game ould good bit of stuff [...] was so confused from the shaking he had got [etc].
at bit of stuff, n.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 17: The chaffing the Coster-kid is giving his donkey would puzzle any of the black-letter gentry.
at black letter gentry (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 16: These Black diamonds [...] are out for a day’s spree.
at black diamonds (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 10: ‘Blow my Dickey, if I know, but they tell me, so and so is a strange good one’.
at blow my dickey!, excl.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 17: [H]e has [...] blowed out his buffer well with the last mag left in his clie.
at blow out, v.2
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 19: [The] Bob-kids; chaps that can just spare a trifle to prevene their walking, by mounting a cart.
at bob-kid (n.) under bob, n.3
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 19: His bone setter could not stand [the weight of passengers] any longer.
at bone-setter (n.) under bone, n.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 17: From the Swell Inn down to the little hedge Lushing Crib the Bonifaces are all awake.
at boniface, n.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 9: At the small table in the corner, two amateurs are discovered ‘booking’ some bets.
at book, v.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 21: He is an empty bounce, and wished to cut a dash without knowing any thing [...] of driving .
at bounce, n.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 11: And should the relator of any event happen to do it rather too brown (for instance, stating, with a face of clay, [...] that in the country he ran a mile in three minutes and a half] [etc].
at do it brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 9: The Link Boy and Mud Larks, in joining their browns together, are for some ‘Stark Naked’.
at brown, n.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 21: [T]o be a top-of-the-tree buck requires something more than the furnishing hand of a tailor, or the assistance of a groom.
at buck, n.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 17: [H]e has [...] blowed out his buffer well with the last mag left in his clie.
at bufe, n.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 11: If the Catolla can stand the grin well, this sort of playful satire affords much laughter.
at catolla, n.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 9: The Swell chaffs it as ‘Blue Ruin’ to elevate his notionsd.
at chaff, v.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 16: The Plum-Pudding Hero [...] thinks it a good spec to go down the road with his ‘All hot,’ chaffing its good qualities .
at chaff, v.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 27: [S]langly chaunting the heroic deeds of the Fancy.
at chant, v.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 18: The Toddlers are chevying him [i.e. a dandy on horseback] in prime twig.
at chivvy, v.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 17: [H]e has [...] blowed out his buffer well with the last mag left in his clie.
at cly, n.
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 21: He is anxious to look like a Swell [...] he has therefore borrowed a prad to come it strong.
at come it strong (v.) under come it, v.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 14: [A] part of the Gang are serving out a Dandy, whom they take for a conque.
at conk, n.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 34: ‘[A] bob, a crook, a duce, or even a mag will be acceptable’.
at crook, n.2
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 32: [T]he expressed determination of the members to expose all crosses, (i.e. Boxers selling their battles).
at cross, n.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 9: The only definition he [i.e Egan, ‘the writer of this article’] can give to the term ‘DAFFY’ is, that the phrase was coined at the Mint of the Fancy.
at daffy, n.1
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 30: Oh, sad is the heart that can say ‘the deuce take her’ / To fame.
at deuce, n.2
[UK] P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 34: ‘[A] bob, a crook, a duce, or even a mag will be acceptable’.
at deuce, n.1
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