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Portsmouth Eve. News 5 Oct. 2/5: I suppose he must be a credit to the corps as a crackbrain — beg pardon — shot I mean, by the clever way he has gone wide of the mark.at crackbrain, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 5 Oct. 2/5: I suppose he must be a credit to the corps as a crackbrain — beg pardon — shot I mean, by the clever way he has gone wide of the mark. Portsmouth Eve. News 8 Nov. 3/5: American Drinks [...] gum tickler [...] a ‘yard of flannel’, washed down with an ‘eye opener’.at flannel, n.1
Portsmouth Eve. News 8 Nov. 3/5: American Drinks [...] gum tickler [...] a ‘yard of flannel’, washed down with an ‘eye opener’.at gum-tickler (n.) under gum, n.1
Portsmouth Eve. News 15 Dec. n.p.: Cow’s butter is no longer fashionable. I wanted some of this oleomargarine, made up [...] of axle-grease [...] that looks like butter.at axle grease, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 25 Feb. 4/1: Prosecution of a ‘Softy’ [...] A deaf and dumb man was charged with assaulting a a woman.at softy, n.1
Portsmouth Eve. News 26 Oct. 3/3: Recent magisterial action [...] has somewhat enlightened the public as to the nature of the contents of those bags of mystery, yclept sausages.at bag of mystery (n.) under bag, n.1
Portsmouth Eve. News 19 Apr. 2/4: The two little girls belonging to the complainant wrote ‘Thick-head’ on defendant’s wall.at thickhead, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 12 Apr. 3/3: Jack ketch’s Kitchen at Newgate. in its two large cauldrons the hangman boiled, in a compound of tar, pitch and oil, the limbs of those who were executed and quartered for treason, before fixing them on the spikes at London Bridge and the City gates.at Jack Ketch’s kitchen (n.) under Jack Ketch, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 27 Dec. 2/6: The three prize ‘babbies’ of the institution [...] appearing to enjoy themselves ‘to the nines’.at up to the nines, phr.
Portsmouth Eve. News 5 Apr. 2/6: They asked if he wanted to fight [...] squaring up to him, he knocked him down.at square up, v.1
Portsmouth Eve. News 13 July 3/4: If ‘anyone in black’ got up ‘tub-thumping’ or street preaching on the common he would want a license.at tub-thumping, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News (Hants) 15 Dec. 3/5: He was fined 20s. [...] For nothing at all, s’elp me goodness.at s’elp me greens!, excl.
Portsmouth Eve. News 5 Sept. 2/6: 178 members of the last French Chamber were thin while only ninety-seve were fat and the remainder were betwixt and between.at betwix(t) and between, adj.
Portsmouth Eve. News 9 Mar. 2/6: The ‘knight of the shears’ [had] taken a lamp inside the waxen head of his ‘dummy’.at ...the shears under knight of the..., n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 30 May 2/2: A Court of Law has decided it is libellous to call a girl a ‘tart’.at tart, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 29 Apr. 3/4: They commenced skylarking with the result that the boat capsized.at lark, v.
Portsmouth Eve. News (Devon) 23 Jan. 3/4: Lord Wolseley counselled his hearers to shun the ‘shilling dreadful’.at shilling shocker (n.) under shilling, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 3 Aug. 2/6: ‘Please, ’m, he’s an asker!’ [...] ‘Do you mean a beggar?’ ‘Well, ’m, some people do call it that; we call it “asker”.’.at asker, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 1 June 2/3: Shebeening. John Tyrell was fined £250 and costs for selling beer retail without a licence to navvies.at shebeen, v.
Portsmouth Eve. News (Hants.) 6 Apr. 3/3: When Long picked deceased up and struck at him deceased did not ‘shape up’ to him.at shape (up) (v.) under shape, v.
Portsmouth Eve. News 18 Dec. 3/6: An American saddle which is made of aluminium [...] felt parlous hard to the ‘sit-upons’.at sit-upons (n.) under sit, v.
Portsmouth Eve. News 6 Oct. 7/6: The properties are looked upon as the strong tea of the brew.at brew, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 26 Nov. 3/8: [headline] A Broomstick Wedding.at broomstick marriage, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 5 Jan. 2/4: Bridget Heffornan, the draggle-tail and tippler.at draggle-tail, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 10 Nov. 3/2: Four years ago motor car owners indulged their fancy for the ‘teuf-teuf’ under many difficulties.at teuf-teuf, phr.
Portsmouth Eve. News 28 Sept. 6/4: Mr Frank Lawton [...] who made such a success of the character ‘Blinky Bill,’ the Bowery boy.at blink, n.1
Portsmouth Eve. News 2 July 2/5: Forty Soldiers Poisoned [...] Only the men who had drunk of a particular brew of tea were affected.at brew, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 16 Dec. 3/5: The bank clerk Goudie, charged in connection wioth the Bank of Liverpool frauds, is confined in ‘A2’ ward of Holloway castle.at Holloway castle, n.
Portsmouth Eve. News 28 Oct. 4/4: Brown was induced to wager a sovereign on a catch bet.at catch-bet (n.) under catch, v.1
Portsmouth Eve. News 27 Sept. 4/1: I’ve learned it doesn’t do to talk [...] / An’ so I simply walk the chalk.at walk the chalk, v.
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