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Lichfield Mercury 17 Aug. 7/5: You can’t tell a nigger who has bin overflowed out that he can’t come the cabin dodge on you.at come the dodge (v.) under dodge, n.
Lichfield Mercury 17 Aug. 7/5: You can’t tell a nigger who has bin overflowed out that he can’t come the cabin dodge on you. Lichfield Mercury 14 Dec. 6/3: Is he going to join those lispers now? Marry, go to! Ods bodkins! I’fackins and the rest — he cannot.at marry!, excl.
Lichfield Mercury 14 Dec. 6/3: Is he going to join those lispers now? Marry, go to! Ods bodkins! I’fackins and the rest — he cannot.at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
Lichfield Mercury 20 June 5/2: An unxpected accidnet brought about by the fool-headed larking proclivities of [...] very junior yeomanry officers.at foolhead (n.) under fool, n.
Lichfield Mercury 18 Jan. 6/3: At which they all roared out — ‘Oh, dam’me madame, your jawing tackle’s at it’s proper pitch [...] Go hang yourself’.at jawing-tackle, n.
Lichfield Mercury 20 Nov. 5/1: The example set by Sir John Swinburne of hitting his rival [...] ‘below the belt’ — in other words of maligning Mr Mosley’s father — has been copied with a vengeance.at below the belt (adj.) under belt, n.
Lichfield Mercury 23 Sept. 8/1: Adzookers! A local farmer [...] offers 20 acres of capital ‘fog’.at adzooks!, excl.
Lichfield Mercury 29 May 6/4: Zo we shall join giblets, and set up our traps together.at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
Lichfield Mercury 3 June 6/2: By heaven, my young dude, if you were in the States [...] ’d let daylight into you.at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
Lichfield Mercury 3 June 6/2: Philip and his companion were profuse in their apologies, which were wasted upon the low gill-flirt.at gill-flirt, n.
Lichfield Mercury 17 Feb. 3/6: Policeman: Here, mind your eye, youngster.at mind your eye! (excl.) under eye, n.
Lichfield Mercury 19 July n.p.: The man is lying at a hedge alehouse [...] in Kent.at hedge-tavern (n.) under hedge, adj.
Lichfield Mercury 12 June 6/2: Major Savage had said that prisoner was ‘a bit of a barrack-room lawyer’ and advised him to be careful.at barrack-room lawyer, n.
Lichfield Mercury 12 June 5/6: ‘To dine with Sir Thomas Gresham’ and to ‘dine with the cross-legged knights’ signifies that you have no dinner to go to.at dine with Sir Thomas Gresham (v.) under dine, v.
Lichfield Mercury 27 Sept. 5/1: The case which came before his Honour [...] was about as clear as ditchwater.at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
Lichfield Mercury 29 Nov. 8/3: I was half-slewed when I went there.at half-slewed, adj.
Lichfield Mercury 5 Sept. 3/4: The police [...] turned a deaf ear to his request [...] to be allowed to write his name, or walk a chalk line, as evidence of his sobriety.at walk the chalk, v.
Lichfield Mercury 13 Apr. 8/4: Of the earlier sailor princes [...] there was none so popular as Prince William Henry [...] ‘the jolly young tarry-breeks’.at tarry-breeks, n.
Lichfield Mercury 14 Feb. 3/7: ‘I have been all through Homer’s works before I was twelve,’ said the big-headed scholar.at big-headed (adj.) under big head, n.1
Lichfield Mercury 17 Sept. 7/1: ‘How goes Mrs Gastrell?’ ‘Oh, bobbishly, sir’.at bobbishly, adj.
Lichfield Mercury 20 Jan. 3/3: ‘Hould thee clack and get out of my way.’ [...] ‘Thee’st betwattled, I reckon’.at betwattled (adj.) under betwattle, v.
Lichfield Mercury 10 Oct. 3/4: Society he dismissed contemptuously as ‘snookdom’, [...] the ‘high jinks’ of the high-nosed [...] angered him.at high-nosed, adj.
Lichfield Mercury 11 Dec. 3/2: Come, tip us your flipper, old fellow.at tip one’s flipper (v.) under tip, v.3
Lichfield Mercury 4 May 5/2: When a man faints on parade he is said to have ‘chucked a dummy’ .at chuck a dummy (v.) under chuck, v.2
Lichfield Mercury 4 May 5/2: When a man attempts to take undue advantage over another he is said to be ‘coming the old soldier’.at come the old soldier (v.) under come the..., v.
Lichfield Mercury 4 May 5/2: Doolally Tap — When a soldier becomes mentally unbalanced he is said to have received the ‘Doolally Tap’. The word is a corruption of the name of an Indian town, Deolali.at doolally tap, n.
Lichfield Mercury 4 May 5/2: Slingers—A meal of bread and tea.at slingers, n.
Lichfield Mercury (Staffs.) 26 Mar. 2/7: We made a glorious ‘spotted dog’ pudding yesterday.at spotted dog (n.) under spotted, adj.
Lichfield Mercury 4 May 5/2: Swinging the Lead—This is the equivalent of the civilian expression, ‘Telling the tale’.at swing the lead (v.) under swing, v.
Lichfield Mercury 4 May 5/2: Bun Wallah—A soldier who drinks nothing stronger than tea, and is [...] supposed to eat voraciously of buns.at wallah, n.
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