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[UK] Manchester Eve. News 12 July 4/2: The New York Spirit of the Times observes —‘A more low-lived cringing cur [...] Fed on the best and deluged with champagne, he would have licked the black off Ashbury’s boots’ [...] It would be wrong to gather from this foul-mouthed nonsense that the writer has any objection to boot-licking in abstract.
at bootlick, v.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 16 Feb. 4/4: The Treason-Mongers of Tipperary Tea dust, on the contrary, is a palpable take-in!
at take-in, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 24 Oct. 2/3: [They] had ‘tossed’ [...] to see which of them should steal a pair of clogs, and as the lot fell on Peak, Fletcher was deputed to keep ‘nix’ for the bobby.
at keep nix (v.) under nix!, excl.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 3 May 4/5: Come and take the ‘Doch and Dorris’ with a will.
at dock-and-doris, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 6 Dec. 4/2: When it was seen that his wife was in a dangerous state, the prisoner said, with infamous indifference, ‘Let the — cat do a stiff un. I can do a “twelver” for her’.
at stiff ’un, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 27 Nov. 2/1: Mr Gladstone replied [...] that he was an inconceivable thickhead.
at thickhead, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 3 May 4/5: You, my jolly tar, tip us your flipper.
at tip one’s flipper (v.) under tip, v.3
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 6 Dec. 4/2: When it was seen that his wife was in a dangerous state, the prisoner said, with infamous indifference, ‘Let the — cat do a stiff un. I can do a “twelver” for her’.
at twelver, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 22 Feb. 4/3: I may hope and pray that the civilian afterclaps of the late election may be as mild [...] in their effects upon disobedient voters as the ecclesiastical [...] penalties have been upon your truly.
at after-clap, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 18 May 2/6: Meeting of the Dundee Domestic Servants [...] The wearing of he 'flag' gave rise to considerable discussion [...] against wearing the 'badge of servitude'.
at flag, n.2
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 22 Feb. 4/3: I may hope and pray that the civilian afterclaps of the late election may be as mild [...] in their effects upon disobedient voters as the ecclesiastical [...] penalties have been upon your truly.
at yours truly, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 14 Apr. 4/5: Despite the remonstrances of the coroner’s jury [...] Evans carried off the hempen necklace to add to his trophies.
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 14 Apr. 4/5: After the execution of Mrs Cotton, the West Auckland poisoner, Calcraft informed the Durham gaol officials that she would be the last person he should ‘put a nightcap on’.
at nightcap, n.2
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 17 May 2/4: he had been so ‘togged up’ that he thought he was a Nangle.
at togged out (to the nines) (adj.) under togged, adj.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: I might do a bit o’ ‘ale and portering’ (working and thieving) [...] A little bit of work, hawking or otherwise, with a spice of thieving.
at ale and porter, v.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: ‘Only fancy,’ laughed Mac, ’the kids took us for the “blues”’.
at blue, n.1
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/2: I learned from scraps of conversation they had ‘done the boat’ (the slang term for the now abolished system of transportation) from London.
at do the boat (v.) under boat, n.1
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 22 Oct. 3/3: The ticket was handed up to the bench, and read as follows:– ‘Her Majesty, Queen of Camp, will hold a grand levé and grand ball masque on Wednesday, October 21st, 1874. Dancing to commence at ten o'clock; tickets 1s. 6d. each. Ices, refreshments, &c., will be provided’ .
at camp, n.2
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: [He] had thrown up ‘cross-work’ for the more lucrative profession of betting.
at cross game (n.) under cross, adj.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: The London Tavern [...] the great place of resort of ‘cross-men’ [...] and there the ’cutest of the fraternity most did congregate.
at cross-man (n.) under cross, adj.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: He remembered what could be done in spite of all the ‘d’s’.
at D, n.2
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 9 June 4/5: The pair adjourned to a place of refreshment [...] for the purpose of getting ‘a drop of the mountain dew’.
at mountain dew, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: We used to drop nearly all the stuff at Bob Macfarlane’s, and a good fence he was then.
at drop, v.2
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 14 Sept. 4/3: If he don’t stop trying to play roots on me, I’ll put a Mansard roof on him and make him waltz off on his eyebrow.
at walk off on (one’s) eyebrow under eyebrow, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: They got cut up heavily [...] Tabby won, though he’d got the gravel-rash (cut face) from the bricks.
at gravel rash (n.) under gravel, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: His old woman is doing time for taking in some two or three hundred watches from the ‘guns’.
at gun, n.5
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 9 June 4/5: Having [...] partaken pretty freely of the ‘hard stuff,’ they [...] proceeded homeward.
at hard stuff, n.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: They were both lushed (drunk) before they began.
at lushed, adj.
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/2: They [...] might be recognised and watched by the ‘slops’.
at slop, n.3
[UK] Manchester Eve. News 25 May 4/5: ‘Well! resurrection morning! [...] if I h’ain’t the first snoozer to rise.
at snoozer, n.1
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