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Nottingham Eve. Post 12 Feb. 5/5: Not-on-your-life! Miss Knowall.at not on your life under life, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 12 Feb. 5/5: Not-on-your-life! Miss Knowall. Nottingham Eve. Post 12 Feb. 5/5: Not-on-your-life! Miss Knowall.at Miss, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 19 Apr. 4/3: They began to fidget [...] like a hen on a hot griddle.at like a hen on a hot griddle under hot, adj.
Nottingham, Eve. Post 13 May 3/3: The Chief Constable handed a large yellow bill to the magistrates, headed ‘Hallelujah Band,’ announcing a meeting [...] in attendance [...] converted navvies, milkmen, etc., and a ‘host of others from the fag end of the Devil’s regiment’.at hallelujah, adj.
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: ‘Halloa! Nosey,’ said a closely-polled specimen of the genus London Arab.at arab, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: He was snugly seated near the bread baskets [...] wishing for a chance to ‘cop’ a couple of the small currant loaves on the sly [...] ‘I means to have a couple of them busters’.at burster, n.1
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: I told him if he’d send them in to the swell cribs he’d get a quid [...] but he said he couldn’t ‘cheek’ it.at cheek it (out) (v.) under cheek, v.1
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: He was snugly seated near the bread baskets [...] wishing for a chance to ‘cop’ a couple of the small currant loaves on the sly.at cop, v.
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: ‘Hullia! Nosey,’ said a closely-polled specimen of the genus London Arab.at poll, n.1
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: Only had my sixer and a drop of skilly at Westminster [workhouse].at sixer, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: The Mendicity blokes [...] has put the stopper on anybody doing much with a ‘stiff’ in London.at stiff, n.1
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: The Mendicity blokes [...] has put the stopper on anybody doing much with a ‘stiff’ in London.at stopper, n.1
Nottingham Eve. Post 28 Jan. 4/5: I managed to cop a swell bloke on the fly for a thrummer.at thrums, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 13 Sept. 4/1: Jennings was charged with beating his wife [...] ‘he up and let her have it’.at let someone have it (v.) under have, v.
Nottingham Eve. Post 13 Sept. 4/1: For that Heathen Chinese / Is a hard not to crack / [...] /‘Heads I win tails you lose,’ / Johnny Pigtail might say.at johnny-, pfx
Nottingham Eve. Post 11 Apr. 3/5: He gave her a slight stroke on the hand with a cane, and because she ‘sauvced’ him, he boxed her ears.at sauce, v.2
Nottingham Eve. Post 7 Apr. 2/2: The late idol of his heart is likely, in hunting phrase, to ‘come a howler’.at howler, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 27 Aug. 2/6: His skypiece quite eclipsed anything by way of novelty ever seen upon the head of a human.at sky-piece (n.) under sky, n.1
Nottingham Eve. Post 24 May 2/4: M. Leandri, a fire-eating editor from Bastia, has just arrived here for the purpose of challenging to mortal combat M. Lepelletier [...] who made some disparaging remarks about him.at fire-eating, adj.
Nottingham Eve. Post 12 Nov. 3/4: Asher said, ‘None of your hanky-panky tricks,’ and struck Burton in the face.at hankypanky, adj.
Nottingham Eve. Post 14 Nov. 4/2: A‘London Particular’. A dense fog prevailed this morning over London.at London particular (n.) under London, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 12 May 4/3: Once she saw him go into a gay house. —Other evidence was given to show that respondent had visited houses of ill-repute.at gay house (n.) under gay, adj.
Nottingham Eve. Post 7 Apr. 3/2: Mr Fuller Mellish, though talking somewhat the agreeable rattle [...] played with no small spirit.at agreeable rattle, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 10 Jan. 3/2: It was his own admission that he was a ‘cosh carrier’ and they knew what that meant.at cosh carrier (n.) under cosh, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 29 May 2/6: The deceased had declared [...] that he was afraid he should be ‘clemmed’ to death.at clem, v.
Nottingham Eve. Post 21 Dec. 3/3: If you hit him again [...] I shall flatten your ‘snitcher’.at snitch, n.1
Nottingham Eve. Post 4 May 2/7: It seems that he is so devoted to the fortune of his own bantling, the local Veto Bill, that he is willing [...] to stake everything upon it.at bantling, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 30 Oct. 2/5: A comrade said of him [i.e. a policeman] ‘Oh he’s a hot tamale he is! He’d arrest anything’.at hot tamale, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 4 May 2/4: ‘Dupas’ is back slang for ‘spud’, a vulgar name given to a potato.at dups, n.
Nottingham Eve. Post 4 Sept. 2/8: A man named John Macdonald, alias ‘Scottie’.at Scotchie, n.
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