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[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 26 Feb. 2/5: Were you not calling yourself Lord Dundas [...] and weren’t you as drunk as muck?
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 20 Dec. 3/2: The police had often tried [...] to prove him a ‘snaveller’.
at snaveller (n.) under snavel, v.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 1 Apr. 3/2: We take a little war paint (regimentals) for the purpose of creating an imposing appearance, and we are going to rig the doctor in a staff uniform.
at war-paint (n.) under war, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 12 Aug. 7/4: That which we call the devil’s-dung by any other name would stink as bad.
at devil’s dung (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 25 July 6/5: You can scratch down bets on horses you do not understand, and gabble in St Giles Greek about ‘making books’.
at St Giles’s Greek (n.) under St Giles, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 23 Dec. 9/1: Dick Greasy [...] ax’d me if I’d mak one to goa a scrumpin, that is, fetchin’ apples off sumboddy’s trees .
at scrump, v.1
[UK] (ref. to early 18C) Sheffield Dly Teleg. 11 Sept. 7/2: In Colly Cibbr’s days the young beaux [...] invented wild oaths such as ‘Stap my vitals,’ ‘Burn my liver,’ and ‘Scorch me’.
at burn my liver! (excl.) under burn, v.
[UK] (ref. to early 18C) Sheffield Dly Teleg. 11 Sept. 7/2: In Colly Cibbr’s days the young beaux [...] invented wild oaths such as ‘Stap my vitals,’ ‘Burn my liver,’ and ‘Scorch me’.
at stap my vitals!, excl.
[UK] (ref. to early 18C) Sheffield Dly Teleg. 11 Sept. 7/2: In Colly Cibbr’s days the young beaux [...] invented wild oaths such as ‘Stap my vitals,’ ‘Burn my liver,’ and ‘Scorch me’.
at scorch, v.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 29 Aug. 8/7: Storming a penny gaff in Limehouse [...] Mr Worrels, superintenadnt of the K division, made a rush on the notorious penny gaff and captured the proprietor.
at rush, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 31 May 6/5: [T]he eighth [wicket] (Shaw) for 60; the ninth (Mr. Sutton), bowled all over the shop, for 64.
at all over the shop under shop, n.1
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 27 Jan. 6/7: About 30 females had come to him on the first day in ‘bull week’ and asked if overtime was to be worked.
at calf week (n.) under calf, n.1
[UK] Sheffield Daily Teleg. 5 Nov. 3/6: [tile] ‘On a Resurrectionist’. Here lies an honest man, my brothers, / Who raised himself by raising others.
at resurrectionist (n.) under resurrection, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 22 Apr. 2/3: The First Minister was angry, and was wrong; but he then showed his cards .
at show one’s cards (v.) under show, v.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 28 July 7/5: The assault was committed while the prisoner was being taken into custopdy. James endeavoured to ‘do a bolt’, and ran down Snighill.
at do a bolt (v.) under bolt, n.1
[UK] (ref. to 1812) Sheffield Dly Teleg. 22 Oct. 8/3: In September 1812 he writes [...] ‘I defy him to extort — that muffin-face of his into madness’.
at muffin-face, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. (Yorks.) 29 July 2/3: However unparliamentary it may be to characterise British shipowners as ‘villains,’ it is no use blinking the fact that some of them deserve the epithet.
at blink, v.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 17 Apr. 2/5: The difference is about the same as that between a ‘tea fight’ and a ‘muffin struggle’.
at bun-struggle (n.) under bun, n.3
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 28 Dec. 3/3: They were despatched to a fairly even start, and at once set to work at a clipping pace.
at clipping, adj.1
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 1 June 2/3: ‘Sdeath and furies, what does she [etc.].
at death!, excl.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 18 Sept. 12/2: Mixed with the main army of sightseers there are at least a few thousand who belong of right to those forces which Carlyle terms ‘the Devil’s Regiment of the Line’.
at devil’s regiment (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 13 Aug. 3/7: He [was] threatened [...] with a hempen cravat, and the navigation of the Bosphorus in a sack.
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 18 Feb. 8/5: Horse Chaunting [...] he dragged the fraudulent horse-chaunter before a court of justice.
at horse-chaunter (n.) under horse, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 3 Apr. 9/3: Sir Arthur Turner, Bart. A putty-nosed blaguad [sic].
at putty-brained (adj.) under putty, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. (Yorks.) 16 June 3/2: Our American Letter. Straightway Shoddydom apes these externals of the best families [...] This delusion will continue until you hear the loud, vulgar laugh and the nasal twang of Shoddydom.
at shoddydom (n.) under shoddy, adj.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 5 May 4/4: Everything in or about the [Japanese] house is kept in the most ‘apple-pie’ ordert.
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. (Yorks.) 9 Mar. 5/2: The Oriental beggars who bother you for backsheesh are not greater persecutors of public patience than [etc.].
at baksheesh, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 30 Aug. 3/4: An Amateur Bash-Bazouk in Sheffield. Edwin Newton [...] will be charged [...] with maliciously wounding Samuel Gill [...] and also with assaulting the police.
at bashi-bazouk, n.
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 9 Nov. 3/2: To his ‘firm pal,’ Jack, he bequeaths his favourite jemmy; to his ‘Rotty [sic] Cully,’ Bill, his ‘ticker,’ which he ‘bunged from the old cove on Denmark-hill; and to his ‘Leary Bloke,’ Bob, his unexpired ticket-of-leave.
at bung, v.1
[UK] Sheffield Dly Teleg. 9 Nov. 3/2: To his ‘firm pal,’ Jack, he bequeaths his favourite jemmy; to his ‘Rotty [sic] Cully,’ Bill, his ‘ticker,’ which he ‘bunged from the old cove on Denmark-hill; and to his ‘Leary Bloke,’ Bob, his unexpired ticket-of-leave.
at cully, n.1
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