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Preston Chron. 28 May 4/2: She treated all present with brandy, and made all drink two glasses, to wet both eyes.at wet the other eye (v.) under wet, v.
Preston Chron. 28 May 4/2: She treated all present with brandy, and made all drink two glasses, to wet both eyes. Preston Chron. 19 Aug. 4/3: He [...] began to open his pipes.at open one’s pipes (v.) under pipes, n.1
Preston Chron. (Lancs.) 25 Nov. 3/5: Though I am no ‘tormentor of catgut’ [...] these elaborate productions give me greater pleasure than any other syle of music.at tormentor of catgut, n.
Preston Chron. 12 Aug. 4/1: Avoid the way of Slick of Tennessee, [...] the fiercest gouger he. / He claws and spits, as there he sits / [...] / And in his hand, for deadly strife, a bowie-knife.at gouger, n.
Preston Chron. 11 Nov. 2/5: A bruising match, for £100, took place near Andover.at bruising, n.
Preston Chron. 10 June 6/1: Lord John Russell [...] must give way to a less delicate and timid soul. A Miss-Nancified spirit is out of place in an elemental war like the present.at Miss-Nancyfied (adj.) under Miss Nancy, n.
Preston Chron. 1 Sept. 8/2: We adbise all troubled with [...] ennui, blue devils, the ‘horrors’ (either of this world or the next) to pay him a visit.at blue devils, n.
Preston Chron. 1 Sept. 8/2: We adbise all troubled with [...] ennui, blue devils, the ‘horrors’ (either of this world or the next) to pay him a visit.at horrors, the, n.
Preston Chron. (Lancs.) 20 Jan. 7/5: The language used by both parent and child was most revolting; and the conduct of the ‘tally husband’ [...] anything but creditable.at tally-husband, n.
Preston Chron. 16 Mar. 3/3: ‘She fell downstairs and hurt her courtesy bender.’ ‘Her what?’ [...] ‘Why, her knee’.at bender, n.1
Preston Chron. 9 Nov. 5/3: Here we were [in] white vests, polished boots, and Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.at Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (n.) under Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
Preston Chron. 9 Mar. 6/4: [M]y young friend still walks abroad, a wind-bag fall of resolutions, which finally evaporate and come to nothing.at windbag, n.
Preston Chron. 8 Apr. 5/2: Boots said the only reward he got for taking his [i.e a ‘worthy bumpkin’] carpet bag to the train was a very polite request to ‘absquatulate’ to the infernal regions.at absquatulate, v.
Preston Chron. 16 Dec. 7/3: There is but one Manchester [...] The real pillars of Great Britain are the chimneys of Cottonopolis.at Cottonopolis (n.) under cotton, n.
Preston Chron. 16 Dec. 7/3: The Castle at Richmond, where there are no charges but hotel charges, and the only dead men are empty bottles.at dead man, n.
Preston Chron. 8 Apr. 5/2: Our friend having expressed an anxious desire to be introduced to the great Mr Cowell, a substitute was found for the ‘great gun’.at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
Preston Chron. 16 Sept. 5/1: Sturdy wiry fellows [...] being ‘half-slewed,’ they were as ripe for a shindy as Paddy himself at Donnybrook Fair.at half-slewed, adj.
Preston Chron. 8 Apr. 5/2: A worthy bumpkin [...] fell into the hands of some mischievous knights of the brush.at ...the brush (and shovel) under knight of the..., n.
Preston Chron. 1 Aug. 6/6: I drank and in less than an hour I’ll be switched if I had 25 cents left out of two dollars.at I’ll be switched! (excl.) under switch, v.1
Preston Chron. 18 Dec. 6/4: He had kept a house in Queen-street [...] He did not keep a ‘nanny-shop’ at any rate.at nanny-shop (n.) under nanny, n.1
Preston Chron. 1 Mar. 4/1: He was promoted to the captaincy of a regular squadof sapheads.at sap-head, n.
Preston Chron. 22 Aug. 6/4: A pennyworth of fogmatic mutilation.at fogmatic, n.
Preston Chron. 6 June 3/4: ‘Just the man,’ said the itinerant apothecary; ‘let us join giblets and we will make a good thing of it’.at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
Preston Chron. 15 Aug. 6/4: There would be no sellers if there were no buyers of tht which total abstainers are so fond of terming ‘liquid damnation’.at liquid damnation (n.) under liquid, adj.
Preston Chron. 5 Dec. 6/4: From the sleek physician to the money-coining quack, from the fine-tailed professor to the thimble-rigging pill-grinder.at pill-grinder (n.) under pill, n.
Preston Chron. 5 Dec. 6/4: From the sleek physician to the money-coining quack, from the fine-tailed professor to the thimble-rigging pill-grinder.at thimble-rig, v.
Preston Chron. (Lancs.) 5 Dec. 6/4: When the shoddycrats of shoddydom [...] grow apoplectic and terrific about annihilating the rebels.at shoddydom (n.) under shoddy, adj.
Preston Chron. 23 Feb. 3/2: it is therefore impossible that this could be a joke [...] on all Sawneydom.at Sawneydom (n.) under Sawney, n.
Preston Chron. 18 Apr. 6/3: We all have a respect for the general cloth, and yet the old proverb — ‘Pinch at the parson's side’ — crops up, and we are wickedly inclined to interpret it literally.at pinch on the parson’s side (v.) under pinch, v.
Preston Chron. 15 Mar. 6/1: The Dissenting ministers want to join giblets; that’s the short of it.at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
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