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Royal Cornwall Gaz. 27 Apr. 3/1: In the language of the Fancy, I have given him a breadbasketter, i.e. have floored him.at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 27 Apr. 3/1: In the language of the Fancy, I have given him a breadbasketter, i.e. have floored him. Royal Cornwall Gaz. 27 Apr. 3/1: I submit [...] that Misocant will appear to be a convicted fibber [...] and must have been thrice at the least dipped in the Shannon.at dipped in the Shannon, adj.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 21 Dec. 4/1: After a day’s fuddle at Old Dolly Lob’s Brandy shop.at fuddle, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 28 Dec. 4/3: Says old Sir Simon the King / With his ale dropt hose / And his malmsey nose.at malmsey nose, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 10 Oct. 2/2: He meets a clodpate at the farmyard.at clodpate, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 15 Mar. n.p.: as 1834.at tantivy, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 19 May 4/4: Some thick-sculled bigots gravely asserted, that it was invented by a Jesuit.at thick-skulled (adj.) under thick, adj.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 8 Oct. 4/1: The first to insult, and the first to back out —An impudent, bog-trooting mendicant lout.at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/5: How the penniless potato eater is to be by remitting the duties on wheat, he did not explain.at potato-eater (n.) under potato, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 28 Sept. n.p.: He cheats at the races with thimbles and peas / [...] / He revels at night in a Mumpers Hotel.at pea and thimble, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 28 Sept. n.p.: The Sports are begun, the horses are off / [...] / While prancing around on his high-mettled horse, / The small Sporting Gent is the Swell of the Course!at sporting man (n.) under sporting, adj.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 29 July3/1: Some will have it — there’s a screw loose at Downing-street.at a screw loose under screw, n.1
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 27 Apr. 6/3: I will not march in her heroic ranks of cheap and sham martyrs, twopenny halfpenny patriots, and Brummagem protestants.at Brummagem protestants (n.) under Brummagem, adj.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 6 Dec. n.p.: The Wexford men are all ‘yellow bellies’ since the reign of Queen Elizabeth [...] Wexford emigrants to St John’s, Newfoundland, have given their ‘local habitation’ in that city the name of ‘Yellow-belly Corner’.at yellow belly, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 22 Nov. 7/4: ‘Do you gain an honest livelihood; or do you live by ‘tiddley-winking’?at tiddleywink, v.
Royal Cornwall gaz. 3 July 8/1: A woman named Haynes [...] keeps a ‘kiddlywink’ at Redruth. He has been drinking in her house all day.at kiddeliwink, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 21 Nov. 6/1: Poetry [...] No long delicious twilight- time, / No skies divinely lucid, / No impulses of lyric rhyme, / No adjective but ‘deuced’.at deuced, adj.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 20 May 7/5: Martson threatened to ‘hit him a smack in the ear-hole if he didn’t’.at earhole, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 4 Feb. 6/3: The Bells [...] being faire and handsome, they cannot be rung because the crack-rope souldiers have broke all the bell-ropes.at crack-rope (n.) under crack, v.2
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 14 Oct. 7/1: After cooking the ham they found it was unfit for food, there being thousands of ‘skippers’ in it.at skipper, n.4
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 22 Mar. 6/2: Even then he was not contented, but roared out on me more like a bear with a sore head.at bear, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 31 May 7/4: I danced and sang until I was ready to ‘drop’.at drop, v.3
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 20 Sept. 6/4: The regulations are intended to prevent [...] the betrayal of trust, if [...] a longue-tongued clerk tittle-tattles.at long-tongued, adj.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 31 May 7/4: Off I slunk, removing the treacherous goatee, and brushing over the bare spot [...] and a busy Newgate frill which luckily still kept its place.at Newgate collar (n.) under Newgate, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 12 Apr. 7/6: The man looked at him [...] in great amazement, and then said, ‘ch shure yer a quare man for a minister’.at quare, adj.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 31 May 7/4: Hook it, master [...] You’re blown, and if there’s a row, you’ll get smashed.at smash, v.1
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 31 May 7/4: The escort of tatterdemallions grew inconveniently large, surging along Bethnal Green Road.at tatterdemallion, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 31 May 7/4: Yelling brats, who [...] refreshed themselves by pelting the poor tom-tom wallah with stones.at wallah, n.
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 7 Oct. 7/6: Bicycle riders [...] are naturally becoming a nuisance in the suburbs [...] Their riders have been [...] described as ‘Cads on Castors’.at cads on castors (n.) under cad, n.1
Royal Cornwall Gaz. 1 June 6/3: No.6 bill (a regular shiner) — ink from London [...] come and see it.at shiner, n.1
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