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Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 19 June 3/6: The coarse ‘chaff’ [...] with which writers of a much inferior order deride everything that can be represented as an incongruity between high principles and low practice.at chaff, n.1
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 19 June 3/6: The coarse ‘chaff’ [...] with which writers of a much inferior order deride everything that can be represented as an incongruity between high principles and low practice. Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 30 Apr. 3/6: An impression is abroad that these prisoners were, to use a slang word — ‘pals’.at pal, n.
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 19 Nov. 3/4: [from Sat. Review, London] So Prince George got his cadetship, and was sent to his distant country, where he is now what in India slang is called a ‘griff’.at griffin, n.1
Mercury (Hobart) 15 Aug. 3/4: As a ‘sneak-thief’ or ‘bagman,’ I should convict him by his face; the same indictment would make me acquit him instantly of assassination.at bagman, n.
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 7 Mar. 3/6: The Holy Willie Scot is an accomplished hypocrite [...] the caricature of Scottish Calvinism.at holy Willie (n.) under holy, adj.
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 5 Apr. 2/5: [H]e gave evidence [...] on a charge of stone-throwing, and as he was leaving the Court defendant in an undertone called him a foul name and threatened to ‘tap him again and warm him.’ ‘Tapping’ is the slang word for stone-throwing.at tap, v.2
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 12 Dec. 3/3: You cannot purchase flour or anything in the shape of slops here.at slop, n.1
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 10 Mar. 3/6: [from Dly News, London] Nothing, however, is more deceptive than a full ‘house;’ for no one, except the manager [...] knows whether it is filled with money or ‘paper’.at paper, n.
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 5 May 4/4: [S]ome hitherto unknown bottled-up animal ‘lands the pot’.at pot, n.1
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] a dram, a deoch-an-doras.at dock-and-doris, n.
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 17 Jan. 3/2: When Cardinal Wiseman adopted ‘back slums,’ which had been left in the gutter of slang by Pierce Egan, the term ceased to belong to blackguardism.at back slums (n.) under back, adj.2
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] on the skyte, on the spree, on the batter.at batter, n.3
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] the hard stuff [...] a bead.at bead, n.1
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] far gane [sic], mortal blin’, helpless.at blind, adj.1
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] in the shakes, in the blues.at in the blues under blues, n.1
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] a bucket, a tastin’, a toothfu’, a cinder.at bucket, n.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] a bucket, a tastin’, a toothfu’, a cinder.at cinder, n.1
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] ‘wet yer whistle,’ [...] soak your clay.at moisten the clay (v.) under clay, n.
Mercury (Hubart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] drop o’ the cratur .at creature, the, n.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] on the loose, fu’ on, half-cut.at half-cut, adj.2
Mercury (Hubart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] soul destroyer, hell broth, devil’s brew .at devil’s brew (n.) under devil, n.
Mercury (Hubart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] whiskey, the real thing, mountain dew .at mountain dew, n.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] spiffed [...] rather touched [...] elevated.at elevated, adj.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] far gane [sic], mortal blin’, helpless.at far gone, adj.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] a mornin’, a forenoon, a nightcap.at forenoon, n.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] on the fuddle [...] fuddled.at fuddled, adj.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] the hard stuff.at hard stuff, n.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] on the loose, fu’ on, half-cut.at loose, adj.
Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] a mornin’, a forenoon, a nightcap.at morning, n.
Mercury (Hubart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] barleybree, nectar .at nectar, n.
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