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Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 13 Aug. 2/7: In fact, the ’ole affair was vicey-versey to what I ’ad thought.at vicey-versey, adv.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 13 Aug. 2/7: In fact, the ’ole affair was vicey-versey to what I ’ad thought. Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 28 Sept. 4/4: A respectable looking asker [...] humbly begged relief from him.at asker, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 17 Oct. 4/3: At last he got out, as naked as Adam [...] and as savage as a bear with a sore head.at bear, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 2 Aug. 4/3: Wilkins never said a word about honour in the crib business [...] he never misses a chance of sneering at it [...] Cocky Walker translated ignis ‘devouring element’ and down comes Wilkins upon him like a load of bricks.at crib, n.3
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 23 May 2/3: God bless Ireland and God damn England.at god-damn, v.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 25 Jan. 4/4: Sir Morell has just refused a nice little doucer on [sic] 30,000 dollars, which was offered to him if he would run across the ‘mill-pond’ to see one of the inumerable ‘leading citizens’ in the Staes .at doucer, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 14 July 2/2: In a book [...] ‘American and Other Drinks’ we find [...] the ‘Flash of Lightning,’ the ‘Nerver,’ the ‘Livener,’ and the ‘Locomotive’.at flash of lightning (n.) under lightning, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 14 July 2/2: In a book [...] ‘American and Other Drinks’ we find [...] the ‘Flash of Lightning,’ the ‘Nerver,’ the ‘Livener,’ and the ‘Locomotive’.at livener, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 14 July 2/2: In a book [...] ‘American and Other Drinks’ we find [...] the ‘Flash of Lightning,’ the ‘Nerver,’ the ‘Livener,’ and the ‘Locomotive’.at locomotive, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 23 July 4/1: ‘Cast off this rotten blanket and step forth in their naked skin’ — said rotten blanket being the Methody garment.at Methody, adj.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 29 Sept. 4/4: The authentic ‘Neck Verse’ used at Newgate is, however, extant.at neck verse (n.) under neck, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 14 July 2/2: In a book [...] ‘American and Other Drinks’ we find [...] the ‘Flash of Lightning,’ the ‘Nerver,’ the ‘Livener,’ and the ‘Locomotive’.at nerver, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 25 Jan. 4/4: Sir Morell has just refused a nice little doucer on 30,000 dollars, which was offered to him if he would run across the ‘mill-pond’ to see one of the inumerable ‘leading citizens’ in the Staes .at pond, the, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 4 June 2/3: The British schoolboy [...] will be startled to learn [...] the innocent egg transformed itself into a kind of dynamite bomb, or rather natural ‘stinkpot,’ and exploded with a loud retort and the exhalation of unspeakable odours.at stinkpot, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 29 Sept. 4/4: His subsequent branding at Newgate in the thumb with the T of Tyburn.at Tyburn T (n.) under Tyburn, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 19 Aug. 2/5: The Boys in Blue. The London policeman so often is the mark for criticism, for censure and for ridicule.at boys in blue, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 28 Jan. 4/3: We [...] planted uncle George in shipshape and proper manner. We wasn’t goin’ to have any highfalutin flamdoodle business over him.at flapdoodle, n.2
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 4 Sept. 2/2: Mr Montmorency was ‘suit-ed’ in an ‘elegant loose-fitting pair of indescribables’.at indescribables, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. (Yorks.) 25 Jan. 4/1: She put the telephone to her ear, and was startled by hearing the remark [...] ‘Well, you might as well keep your shirt on’.at keep your shirt on! (excl.) under shirt, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 11 Feb. 4/4: A kind friend, who possessed a stronger love for mischief [...] had, to use his own expresive phrase, ‘done him a thick ’un’.at do someone a thick ’un (v.) under thick ’un, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 30 May 4/6: Sharpe, a bookmaker’s clerk from London, attempted to [...] ‘mace the rattler’ from Liverpool to London [...] but he was caught.at mace the rattler (v.) under mace, v.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 18 July 4/3: They consumed what [...] is known as the familiar ‘cup of thick’ and ‘doorsteps’.at doorstep, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 8 Oct. 3/4: Bugby, pointing at him, said, ‘You will get your eye in a sling when you get to Sandbeck’.at get one’s eye in a sling (v.) under sling, n.2
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 26 July4/4: Pretty ladies make friends wherever they go [...] they meet again, and of course kiss and slobber over each other.at slobber, v.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 3 June 2/6: [headline] A Choice of Wife ‘On Appro’.at on appro (adv.) under appro, n.1
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 18 Dec. 3/1: The whole fleet [...] which a few of our best battleships could ’chaw up’ without much difficulty.at chaw, v.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 1 Jan. 2/7: The prosecutor [who] did a little betting [...] accompanied him to the South-Western Hotel [and] played at ‘Timmy Dodd’.at tommy dodd, n.1
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 17 Oct. 2/6: the ‘Dossers’ Palace’ at Clerkenwell [...] will be opened about Christmas and will accomodate nearly 700 male lodgers [...] The rooms provided for eating, drinking, reading, and smoking would not disgrace a first-class hotel.at dossers’ hotel (n.) under dosser, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 27 May 3/2: ‘The Kinchin Lay’. A Warning to parents [...] In this case the man took a sovereign from the boy’s hand.at kinchin lay (n.) under kinchin, n.
Sheffield Eve. Teleg. 8 June 2/7: [headline] ‘Mahogany Flats’ Lively This Hot Weather [...] it was not until the warm weather set in that the ‘mahogany flats’ made their appearance.at mahogany flat (n.) under mahogany, n.
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