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Manchester Courier 1 Sept. 4/5: No more let us hear of your great Caleb Quotem [...] Honest John Giles can shave and cut hair [...] Feed pigs, bleed your horses, and wait at tables.at Caleb Quotem, n.
Manchester Courier 1 Sept. 4/5: No more let us hear of your great Caleb Quotem [...] Honest John Giles can shave and cut hair [...] Feed pigs, bleed your horses, and wait at tables. Manchester Courier 9 May 4/7: The ‘pickers and stealers’ [...] in their hurry to decamp knocked over and trod upon a number of chidlren.at pickers and stealers, n.
Manchester Courier 18 Mar. 3/2: Another man, who keeps a ‘hush shop’ close by [...] brought a jug of beer.at hush-shop (n.) under hush, n.
Manchester Courier 22 Sept. 3/6: After the many absurdities to which the schematic cushion thumper had committed himself [...].at cushion-thumper (n.) under cushion, n.
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: That’s the affydavy man [...] he’s the clerk of the swag, a knowing cove who looks out for the flats.at affidavit man, n.
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: Here are a couple of rum coves coming up; if you work the finger toppers well we shall touch the bit .at bit, n.1
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: One by one the confederates, or bonnets, came cautiously up and having arranged themselves around the table, the sport began.at bonnet, n.2
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: They will make a great noise to bring people round the table, and then slip their chaffing box, and bolt up the course.at chaffing box (n.) under chaffing, n.
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: ‘Stash your gammon,’ said a little sharp visaged personage.at gammon, n.2
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: The little knowing-looking cockney orator, who they call Jack Sprat.at jack sprat, n.1
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: A crown or a sovreign, gemmen, (vociferated Bill the peaman) that’s the game .at pea-rigger (n.) under pea, n.1
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: Stop, stop [...] remember where you are; chaff and patter romany or ragflash, but no blazey.at ragflash (n.) under rag, v.1
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: All the group were engaed in the science of thimble-rigging .at thimble-rig, v.
Manchester Courier 29 June 2/3: ‘I must run him,’ said the officer, ‘he’s down upon someone’.at run, v.
Manchester Courier 26 Sept. n.p.: ‘Why no, my boyo,’ answered the boatswain’s mate.at boyo, n.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drunk as a fiddler’s dog.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drunk— [...] How came you so?at how came you so, phr.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: In those early days (so remote, that ‘Early Purl Houses’ were unknown).at early purl (n.) under early, adj.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drunk— [...] Moony, Maudlin, Muzzy.at moony, adj.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drinking! [...] Fuddling, Swilling [...] Sucking the monkey, Sluicing the ivories, etc.at sluice the bolt (v.) under sluice, v.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drunk— [...] Spoony [...] Snuffy.at spoony, adj.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drinking! [...] Fuddling, Swilling [...] Sucking the monkey, Sluicing the ivories, etc.at swill, v.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drunk— [...] Top-heavy [...] Wound up.at top-heavy (adj.) under top, n.
Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drunk— [...] Top-heavy [...] Wound up.at wound-up, adj.
Manchester Courier 11 Feb. 2/1: Give me [...] A jug of humming ale.at humming ale, n.
Manchester Courier 20 Dec. 9/4: ‘Gaggery,’ to use a slang phrase of the stage, is nowhere less required, even for the vulgar object of rasing a laugh.at gag, n.
Manchester Courier 25 Nov. 7/3: Mr Fagg, market-looker, for exposing for sale unwholesome meat [...] called ‘Staggering Bob’.at staggering bob, n.
Manchester Courier 17 June 5/1: Judy Quin [...] charged by Police-Constable B7 with [...] what is termed by ‘the profession’, snow-dropping, in other words, with having stolen a dress from a clothes line.at snow-dropping, n.
Manchester Courier 10 June 5/2: He contrived, though not very dextrously, to insinuate his thieving hooks into Mrs Hilton’s pocket.at thieving hooks, n.
Manchester Courier 13 Dec. 5/7: A country gardener [...] had threatened thievish boys with ‘spring guns,’ ‘man-traps’ in vain [...] None of the urchins would run the risk of learning what it was to be spiflicated.at spiflicate, v.
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