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[Scot] Paisley Herald 24 Mar. 1/3: The world was recently well nigh brought to an untimely end by a collision between Beakdom and Bumbledom, or a clash between the Coroner’s jurisdiction and the police.
at beakdom (n.) under beak, n.1
[Scot] Paisley Herald 24 Mar. 1/3: The world was recently well nigh brought to an untimely end by a collision between Beakdom and Bumbledom, or a clash between the Coroner’s jurisdiction and the police.
at bumble, n.1
[Scot] Paisley Herald 24 Mar. 1/3: The world was recently well nigh brought to an untimely end by a collision between Beakdom and Bumbledom, or a clash between the Coroner’s jurisdictin and the police.
at -dom, sfx
[Scot] Paisley Herald 24 Mar. 1/3: Ah! hang you, you put on your temping looks again [...] odd rot you.
at hang, v.1
[Scot] Paisley Herald 13 Oct. 3/2: He [...] will not tell what pay he receives for being a spy, a common informer, a jerry sneak, a peeping Tom.
at jerry sneak, n.1
[Scot] Paisley Herald 7 June 4/1: The Running for the Derby [...] Before coming into the distance Brighton had to cry a go.
at cry a go (v.) under cry, v.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 9 Sept. 6/4: The Noble Grand [...] had been engaged in ‘bottoming’ a pot of porter.
at bottom, v.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 8 Aug. 2/5: he has been only two days here, and he has played the very deuce and upset everything at the spar-yard.
at play the deuce (with) (v.) under deuce, the, phr.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 9 Sept. 6/4: If Brother Williams had attempted to hit him he would make him (Brother Williams) look nine ways for Sunday.
at nine ways from breakfast (adv.) under nine, adj.
[Scot] Paisley Herald (Renfrewshire) 10 Feb. 6/3: Jodge Boyd [...] possessed a similar weakness [...] when passing sentence of death [...] he sldom failed to have a drop in his eye.
at have a drop in one’s eye (v.) under drop in one’s eye, n.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 7 Apr. 1/4: Cincinnatti [is] surrounded by hogs which [...] swarm the streets of ‘Porkopolis’.
at Porkopolis, n.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 28 Sept. 6/4: It were a durnation bit o’ folly from end to end.
at darnation, adj.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 18 July 3/3: Henri Rochefort [...] was accused of living at the expense of a notorious demi-rep.
at demi-rep, n.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 11 Dec. n.p.: Young ladies of Paisley, to the front! Show loyalty!! It is the latest thing out!!! [...] We refer to the Alexandra Limp!
at Alexandra limp, n.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 6 Feb. 2/3: The ‘men in blue’ had to be called in to put down the ‘ghosts in white’.
at boys in blue, n.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 13 Nov. 6/4: The Nashville Banner, a strongly democratic journal, speaks of Andrew Johnson under the caption, ‘Have we a howler among us?’.
at howler, n.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 22 May 3/3: Chicago, the Porkopolis and Cornopolis of the United States.
at Porkopolis, n.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 14 May 3/5: [headline] A ‘War Hawk’s’ Head in ‘Chancery’.
at in chancery under chancery, n.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 21 May 2/6: One of the young men rushed out and pinned him, and a police constable [...] secured [him].
at pin, v.
[Scot] Paisley Herald 28 Mar. 5/4: I think the Yankees deserve less blame [...] than the sillikin clericals who are playing second fiddle to them.
at sillikin, n.
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