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Liverpool Mercury 12 June 3/2: Cleaver, thc butcher; which [...] got ‘terrible tossicated’ to use his own phrase.at tossicated, adj.
Liverpool Mercury 12 June 3/2: Cleaver, thc butcher; which [...] got ‘terrible tossicated’ to use his own phrase. Liverpool Mercury 8 Mar. 2/3: Squire Jolterhead, sitting by his parlour fire [...] sees Squire Cracklouse, the army tailor.at jolterhead, n.
Liverpool Mercury 1 Nov. 7/3: Mr. J. Clarke, formerly [...] walking stationer, copperplate printer [...] but now, alas! [...] printer’s devil!at walking stationer (n.) under walking, adj.
Liverpool Mercury 15 Aug. 1/4: Jesus Maria! sher actually got a full view of his star!!!at Jesus!, excl.
Liverpool Mercury 19 Dec. 6/1: He (Bradley) called Oliver a ‘Leather-headed fellow’.at leather-headed (adj.) under leatherhead, n.
Liverpool Mercury 1 Aug. 6/3: Oud Bet [...] sent for t’ Methody Pa’sn.at Methody, adj.
Liverpool Mercury 16 Apr. 6/1: My old chummy, Lord Byron, slaps me on the foot and says to me [etc.].at chum, n.
Liverpool Mercury 20 Jan. 6/1: I’m bright without — within I’m dark, / Like many a specious flashy spark / [...] / The stateliest dame, the coyest miss / Will clip with me but never kiss.at flashy blade, n.
Liverpool Mercury 20 Jan. 6/1: I’m bright without — within I’m dark, / Like many a specious flashy spark / [...] / The stateliest dame, the coyest miss / Will clip with me but never kiss.at clip, v.1
Liverpool Mercury 24 Apr. 5/4: Q. This is the first lesson, do you you fully comprehend it? A. Perfectly — It is as clear as mud.at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
Liverpool Mercury 21 July 8/3: What the h—l would become of the Church if these French Atheists should get the upper hand? if our religion would not go to pot, I’ll be d—d.at what the hell, phr.
Liverpool Mercury 1 Mar. 6/2: We [...] at once recognised in it the invention of some worthy ‘knight of the spigot’.at ...the spigot under knight of the..., n.
Liverpool Mercury 6 Dec. 2/5: The consequence was that the first question put by the Cockneys on meeting was [...] ‘What in the world does Quoz mean?’.at quoz!, excl.
Liverpool Mercury 12 Aug. 12/5: It ain’t buy, its prigs is the vord [...] its hoysters, ginger beer, or hany think they can lay their precious mivvies on.at mivvy, n.1
Liverpool Mercury 7 Nov. 10/6: Merchant Seamen’s Act:— Medicines: quantities for 10 men. Castor oil, I lb [...] Dover’s powder, 2 oz; mustard, 1 lb.at dover’s powder, n.
Liverpool Mercury 13 Aug. 6/4: Tam, is ‘roaring fou,’ his besotted look [...] giving unquestionable proof of the extent to which he had been indulging in ‘usqueba’.at roaring fou, adj.
Liverpool Mercury 5 Nov. 8/6: Matthew Battle, usually employed as a lumper about the docks, after swindling several persons [...] absconded.at lumper, n.1
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: ‘He will soon beat James at buzzing’.at buzzing, n.1
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: I was very fortunate, only at cross at Brigg statute fair. At a public-house they said I was trying to pick the landlady’s pocket, and some farm labourers [...] knocked me down, and kicked me like a foot-ball.at cross, n.1
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: ‘Buckley [...] has been ‘putting the damper on’ for many years, being a tall strong man’.at put the damper on (v.) under damper, n.2
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: Now in summer, at Hull, me and three more men might get six to eight pounds a week a piece, but we had to [...] keep a sharp look out, for its very gammy (3) [...] (3) Gammy. A town where they take them sharoer than others.at gammy, adj.1
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: I never was got into by the police.at get into, v.
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: [They] were convicted of a robbery (by hustling) at Burnley.at hustle, v.
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: When I was in Hull, besides the mob I was working with, there were eight or ten mobs more working the packets and railway stations .at mob, n.2
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: I have been associated with another man in keeping a ‘picking up woman’ but I did not get nearly so much by it [...] That kind of street robbery in which a picking-up woman is the usual accomplice, and in which violence is resorted to in the event of resistance.at picking-up moll (n.) under pick up, v.
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: ‘He could wire a man of his poke’.at poke, n.2
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: There are, in Liverpool [...] and other seaports, police ‘made right’.at make (someone) right (v.) under right, adj.
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: The men that were with me went out at night screwing [i.e. stealing].at screw, v.
Liverpool Mercury 30 Dec. 5/3: Samuel Minguey [...] four months imprisonment, hard labour, one week solitary, and once whipped.at solitary, n.
Liverpool Mercury 14 Jan. 38/2: (4) ‘Split out’. Separate. From a MS vocabulary, compiled by a prisoner under sentence of transportation.at split out (v.) under split, v.
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