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Sheffield Indep. 21 Mar. 3/4: Oh trumpery. Oh Moses sure enuff".at Moses!, excl.
Sheffield Indep. 21 Mar. 3/4: Oh trumpery. Oh Moses sure enuff". Sheffield Indep. 12 Dec. 1/3: Perhaps this custom gave rise to the vulgar term water bewitched for indifferent beer.at water bewitched (n.) under water, n.1
Sheffield Indep. 6 Mar. 1/1: What, adds the satirist, is a lawyer, but a black wig and gown, hung up on animated peg, like a barber’s caxon on a block.at caxon, n.
Sheffield Indep. 14 Feb. 4/5: [headline] A Leaf from Jacky Bull’s Catechism.at John Bull, n.1
Sheffield Indep. 31 Dec. 2/6: The pleadings of the Caffre chief for missionaries were very pathetic.at kaffir, adj.
Sheffield Indep. 11 Aug. 8/3: He was very nervous. He often said he should never be right until he got a ‘ground sweat’.at ground sweat (n.) under ground, n.
Sheffield Indep. 6 Nov. n.p.: Brammall threatened to clout Hinchcliffe. Hinchcliffe [...] saying, if Brammall did not hold his noise, he would give him a clouting.at clout, v.1
Sheffield Indep. 7 Aug. 5/2: You may ask why I do not write to the editor of the paper [...] but I know [...] he is so crusty and snappish.at crusty, adj.
Sheffield Indep. 7 Aug. 5/2: The officer explained that ‘norah owlers’ and ‘ridge quiz’ signified golden eye-glasses.at owler, n.
Sheffield Indep. 7 Aug. 5/2: The officer explained that [...] Telescopes were called ‘spicy minge,’ while silver was known by the terms ‘wedge’ or ‘plato’.at plato, n.1
Sheffield Indep. 7 Aug. 5/2: The officer explained that ‘norah owlers’ and ‘ridge quiz’ signified golden eye-glasses.at ridge, adj.
Sheffield Indep. 7 Aug. 5/2: You may ask why I do not write to the editor of the paper [...] but I know [...] he is so crusty and snappish.at snappy, adj.
Sheffield Indep. 20 May 1/4: Dr Hallett’s Gold Anti-Venereal Pills [...] for the care of every stage and sympton of a Certain Complaint [...] Never failing cure for the itch [...] Hallett’s Original Ointment.at itch, n.
Sheffield Indep. 20 May 1/4: The Napolitaines Pills are sold in boxes [...] Dr Hallett’s Gold Anti-Venereal Pills [...] for the care of every stage and sympton of a Certain Complaint.at Neapolitan, adj.
Sheffield Indep. 15 Aug. 5/4: The defendent traced the catalogue of wrongs of herself, her amiable daughter and chance-child.at chance child, n.
Sheffield Indep. 22 Aug. 6/4: He made charges against Gleadless [who] was keeping [...] ‘a snavelling shop’ where, by a system of trickery, he succeded in evabing the paying for a pawnbroker’s license.at snavelling shop (n.) under snavel, v.
Sheffield Indep. 2 Oct. 7/3: Gambling booths and various games of chance were prohibited, and some thimble-rig ‘gents’ taken into custody.at thimble-rig, n.
Sheffield indep. 29 Dec. 5/6: The ‘Touters’ for Lotteries — The ‘Morocco men,’ so called from the red morocco pocket-books whcih they carried [...] They began their lives as pigeons; they closed them as rooks.at morocco man, n.
Sheffield Indep. 14 Jan. 9/5: My neck was encircled by what is called the Newgate colar on the lower part of the beard.at Newgate collar (n.) under Newgate, n.
Sheffield Indep. 20 Dec. 8/5: He had employed a little girl to snavel the sheets.at snavel, v.
Sheffield Indep. 5 Apr. 10/4: The stolen trousers werte found [...] at the shop. [...] The plan was for the party to sell to the keeper of a ‘snavelling shop’ an article for 1s. on the understanding that by the end of the week they could have it back for 1s. 3d.at snavelling shop (n.) under snavel, v.
Sheffield Indep. 30 Apr. 10: I am told there is an attempt to establish a beerocracy.at beerocracy (n.) under beer, n.
Sheffield Indep. 5 Aug. 8/5: Nothing more thahn a bag of bones [...] with a coat as rough as a badger.at ...a badger’s arse under rough as..., adj.
Sheffield Indep. 17 June 9/3: Here comes the Rake’s Coach, with Ignorance his Luggage, Pride his black-Guard, and Impudence his Driver [...] Captain Bounce with a drum at his back, seated by his lady, Vanity Vapid.at Captain Bounce (n.) under captain, n.
Sheffield Indep. 21 Jan. 2/4: The horse chaunter often appears as a particularly guileless country bumpkin [...] the worn-out horse, consigned to the knacker’s yard, is reproduced as a stout animal.at horse-chaunter (n.) under horse, n.
Sheffield Indep. 18 Jan. 3/3: A scape-gallows [...] who had once been under sentence of death, and narrowly escaped hanging, was charged with a murderous assault on the governor of Rye gaol.at scapegallows, n.
Sheffield Indep. 1 June 8/1: His outfit showed him to be a professional knight of the jemmy.at ...the jemmy under knight of the..., n.
Sheffield Indep. 31 July 7/2: One guardian was calling two others a couple of ‘nincompoop turncoats’.at nincompoop, n.
Sheffield Indep. 2 July 3/6: Every youngster with a spare pound or two in his pocket must have his valet or other Jack Nasty fiddling after him.at jack nasty (n.) under jack, n.1
Sheffield Indep. 8 July 3/4: A group [...] got hold of a luckless chimney-sweep who had proved obnoxious to them, and they made him suffer. One of the miners drew him into a fight [...] but the knight of the brush was nowhere, and had to give in to his brawny antagonist.at ...the brush (and shovel) under knight of the..., n.
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