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Northampton Mercury 23 Sept. 3/3: Deserted from [...] the 14th Regiment of Foot [...] James Biddel [...] swarthy Complexion, lank black hair, Carbuncle-faced.at carbuncle face, n.
Northampton Mercury 23 Sept. 3/3: Deserted from [...] the 14th Regiment of Foot [...] James Biddel [...] swarthy Complexion, lank black hair, Carbuncle-faced. Northampton Mercury 31 May 2/2: To the Jack-Pudding Junto; or Market-Harborough Buffoons.at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
Northampton Mercury 1 Apr. 4/1: It is very common for People, in speaking of any Thing valuable, to say ’tis worth a Jew’s Eye.at Jew’s eye, n.
Northampton Mercury 21 Jan. 1/3: On her asking why he had murdered the young woman, he answered, ‘because I wanted to be great with her, and she resisted him’.at great, adj.1
Northampton Mercury 1 Apr. 4/1: It appeared that honest Mr Moses (to use a swindling phrase) had taken in the poor Irishman.at take in, v.
Northampton Mercury 1 Apr. 4/1: It appeared that honest Mr Moses [i.e a Jew] (to use a swindling phrase) had taken in the poor Irishman.at Mr, n.
Northampton Mercury 1 Apr. 4/1: He swore by his Shoul when he met with the pretty bristle-faced Jontleman again, he’d give him a Pop of his Peeper [...] and, without further Ceremony, beat out one of his Eyes.at pop, n.1
Northampton Mercury 1 Apr. 4/1: ‘Yes, my honey,’ says Teague.at Taig, n.
Northampton Mercury 13 Sept. 2/2: He then commenced Couple Beggar and, as once a priest, so for ever.at couple-beggar, n.
Northampton Mercury 24 July 47/4: A Journeyman Ship-Carver, for the Sake of the Bounty informed [...] against a brother Journeyman of the same Trade [...] The Man [...] went to the Lieutenant, who told him that he had been informed against by a young fellow who was a Brother Chip.at brother chip (n.) under brother, n.
Northampton Mercury 18 Dec. 2/2: He replied the he would be damned but he would rip her, and give her guts for garters.at have someone’s guts for garters (v.) under gut, n.
Northampton Mercury 21 Apr. 4/1: Those damn silly bunglers, like dull English calves [...] work only by halves.at calf, n.1
Northampton Mercury 21 Apr. 4/1: We know how to resist, we know when to obey, / Nor want Mounseer Jean Foutre to show us the way.at jean foutre, n.
Northampton Mercury 4 Mar. 2/2: He owned he was educated in Tory-rory principles.at tory rory, adj.
Northampton Mercury 29 Aug. 1/1: They met with another person [...] whose nickname was ‘Stodger’.at stodger, n.
Northampton Mercury 24 Jan. 4/1: At the sign of — in Long Acre [celebrated] not merely for the prime liquors it contained, but for [...] the dashing Miss — , [...] the barmaid.at dashing, adj.
Northampton Mercury 24 Jan. 4/1: ‘There are two more — rogues [...] that ought to be double-slanged here [i.e. in prison]’.at double-slangs (n.) under slang, n.2
Northampton Mercury 20 Aug. 4/6: The sum of money, which [...] he had not acquired by honest means, but by some unlawful gaming upon the bruising match.at bruising, n.
Northampton Mercury 27 June 2/2: He piped all hands and made them finish the bottle, declaring that if he rose again he would find nothing but a dead marine.at dead marine (n.) under dead, adj.
Northampton Mercury 17 Sept. 2/1: Resurrection of a Gin-Spinner [...] They discovered a private distillery, and apprehended a known ‘jigger man,’ a private still worker, named Dennis Duggan. [...] About six months ago [...] a gin-spinning establishment which he had formed [...] was broken up by the same officers.at gin-spinner (n.) under gin, n.4
Northampton Mercury 17 Sept. 2/1: Resurrection of a Gin-Spinner [...] They discovered a private distillery, and apprehended a known ‘jigger man,’ a private still worker, named Dennis Duggan. [...] About six months ago [...] a gin-spinning establishment which he had formed [...] was broken up by the same officers.at jigger, n.3
Northampton Mercury 14 Apr. 2/3: You may learn to [...] put on the vigorous and healthy look [...] instead of the churchyard cough.at churchyard cough (n.) under churchyard, n.
Northampton Mercury 17 Oct. 4/4: The half-naked negroes, [...] laughing loudest in proportion to the scantiness of duds upon their backs.at duds, n.1
Northampton Mercury 17 Oct. 4/4: The ‘cross-byters’ seem [...] to have likened more to the swell-mob man of the present day than to the ‘coney-catcher’.at swell mob, n.
Northampton Mercury 15 June 2/3: The coarse sea-doggrel of Stephano is ‘of the earth, earthy,’ like his nature; and of the sea, scummy, like his circumstances.at scummy, adj.
Northampton Mercury 9 Jan. 4/1: Wasn’t I precious lumpy! but it is all the fault of the new year.at lumpy, adj.1
Northampton Mercury 23 Sept. 4: The farmers up here wouldn’t take her ginger-vengeance [...] instead of eye-openers and fog-clearers.at antifogmatic, n.
Northampton Mercury 5 Aug. 1/4: Indeed the country [...] appred to be placed in this situation [...] in the position of a man who had played his last card and which had not come up trumps.at come up trumps (v.) under come up, v.1
Northampton Mercury 1 Nov. 4/3: The ceremony of tying the nuptial knot is very much simplified in the Hoosier State.at hoosier, adj.
Northampton Mercury 17 July n.p.: He said as Mr Smeathers had been so jonick about the clothes.at jannock, adj.
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