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Motherwell Times 29 Mar. 2/3: The long-looked-for tailors’ ‘hop’ has come and gone [...] It was amusing to see a lady dancing with the ninth part of a man.at ninth part of a man, n.
Motherwell Times 29 Mar. 2/3: The long-looked-for tailors’ ‘hop’ has come and gone [...] It was amusing to see a lady dancing with the ninth part of a man. Motherwell Times 27 Oct. 4/3: That boy of ours is chuck full of slang [...] he talks about me as the guv’nor, and this morning i heard him tell Bridget, ‘Let her go, Gallagher’.at let her go (Gallagher)!, excl.
Motherwell Times (Lanark, Scot.) 25 Nov. 1/2: The wedding passed off, sir, with the gol-whoppinest shivaree ever got up.at shivoo, n.
Motherwell Times 31 Mar. 4/1: Taking this as an aspersion cast upon the ’cuteness of the Scottish police, the Glasgow man was nettled.at cute, adj.
Motherwell Times 31 Mar. 4/1: If the London prigs, especially pickpockets, were as harmless [...] they would soon be cleared out.at prig, n.1
Motherwell Times 21 July 4/1: I don’t want any plazster-haired Willie-boy around my house.at willie, n.1
Motherwell Times 14 Sept. 4/4: ‘Turn out of that, you!’ said the man [...] ‘Why?’ asked Nancy [i.e. a young man en travesti] ‘Why, Dolly Mollisher?’ he answer with a coarse laugh. ‘Why, because...’ .at mollisher, n.
Motherwell Times 25 Aug. 4/2: There was the worst noise you ever heard in your life, and I made for the house just fairly scared green.at scared green (adj.) under scare, v.
Motherwell Times 5 Jan. 2/4: Winners [...] to have [...] a medal which is to be handed over at a representative bun-fight.at bunfight (n.) under bun, n.3
Motherwell Times 19 Aug. 1/2: Could they do it? Absobloominglutely. And they did.at absoballylutely, adv.
Motherwell Times 9 Mar. 5/6: One fact [...] that Brother Bung can never explain away is that in July, 1922 New York state had 104 empty jails out of a total of 350. [...] In Glasgow in 1921 the arrests for drunkeness numbered 10,465.at brother of the bung (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Motherwell Times 8 Aug. 8/3: These Scotchies would break their necks fighting for a ha’penny.at Scotchie, n.
Motherwell Times (Scot.) 25 Apr. 7/5: According to Hughie, ‘my greatest ambition is to preside at a slogging match where blood and gore is being spilt.’ I presume he refers to my presence at a few amateur boxing exhibitions.at slogging match (n.) under slog, v.
Motherwell Times 24 Oct. 7/1: [advert] Vote Solid for Johnstones — the Working Man’s Complete Outfitter.at solid, adv.2
Motherwell Times 5 Apr. 6/1: The penatly kick [...] demoralised them and the team went to pigs and whistles.at go to pigs and whistles (v.) under pig, n.
Motherwell Times 3 Apr. 5/6: The Boy Scouts and Sprouts and the Girl Brownies.at brussel sprout, n.
Motherwell Times (Scot.) 29 May 7/7: I’ve a headache, with a proper graveyard cough.at graveyard cough (n.) under graveyard, n.
Motherwell Times 2 June 6/3: Champions — And How! Congratulations to the boys of No 6 Company.at and how!, excl.
Motherwell Times 4 Jan. 1/3: Careless talk there has been at times, but on the whole the merry prittle-prattle was effervescent.at prittle-prattle, n.
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