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Sherborne Mercury 28 Sept. 2/3: The prisoner is a country ‘magsman’ [...] an ingenious thief who practices the art of sleight of hand to perfection.at magsman, n.
Sherborne Mercury 28 Sept. 2/3: The prisoner is a country ‘magsman’ [...] an ingenious thief who practices the art of sleight of hand to perfection. Sherborne Mercury (Dorset) 1 June 3/3: T.P. Howard, Esq. has given him employment for two calendar months on the ‘everlasting staircase’ [...] at Dorchester Castle.at everlasting staircase (n.) under everlasting, adj.
Sherborne Mercury 3 June 4/6: Now, these sort of interrogators are in Cimmerian darkness as to the real thing.at real thing, the, n.
Sherborne Mercury 2 Nov. 4/6: It’s only a mouthful of moonshine yes, pretty cheat, that’s a fact.at mouthful of moonshine (n.) under moonshine, n.
Sherborne Mercury 31 Jan. 2/5: ‘I say, Bill, look at that ’ere thin ’un. I’m jigger’d if he isn’t in training to go down a gas pipe’.at jiggered, adj.1
Sherborne Mercury 27 Nov. 3/7: ‘Oh ye Yeovilians, conglomerated slubberdegullions!’.at slabberdegullion, n.
Sherborne Mercury 31 Aug. 2/7: He keeps a nanny-shop — a public house — a house of ill-fame.at nanny-shop (n.) under nanny, n.1
Sherborne Mercury 8 June 2/1: Seeing his master counting a lot of sovereigns he said he had found a piece of ‘yellow stuff,’ far bigger than all those together.at yellow stuff (n.) under yellow, adj.
Sherborne Mercury 29 Apr. 6/3: The ‘last escape’ of this convict [...] has lately been repported. It appears [...] he slipped his cable on Tuesday week, in broad daylight.at slip one’s cable (v.) under slip, v.2
Sherborne Mercury 16 Dec. 2/6: He should think it ‘unjust to himself’, to allow himself to be so ‘walked over’.at walk (all) over (v.) under walk, v.
Sherborne Mercury 9 June 7/4: ‘I’feckins I will,’ said the old man.at i’fecks!, excl.
Sherborne Mercury 8 Sept. 6/7: ‘Why is impossible for two bishops to row in the same boat?’ ‘Why, because they are in different seas (sees)!’.at row in the (same) boat (v.) under boat, n.1
Sherborne Mercury (Dorset) 6 Oct. 2/6: Mr Bull to His American Bullies [...] Leave me alone; don’t bother, Bullyrag and worry me!at bullyrag, v.
Sherborne Mercury 1 Sept. 5/1: P.C. Clarke [...] followed ‘my nabs’ who commenced using procative threats.at my nabs (n.) under nabs, n.
Sherborne Mercury (Dorset) 1 Dec. 4/6: He replied that he only did it for a ‘lark.’ Complainant replied that it was a ‘rummish’ sort of a lark.at rummish (adj.) under rum, adj.
Sherborne Mercury 5 Jan. 3/7: The Catch’em Alive Oh! Joint-Stock Bank [...] Directors Lord Dundreary M.P., A.S.S., Lord Tomnoddy, M.P., A.S.S.at catch ’em alive oh!, excl.
Sherborne Mercury (Dorset) 11 July 6/2: The Bridport Stick-in-the-Mud Railway Company are doing nothing again all this beautiful weather.at stick-in-the-mud, adj.
Sherborne Mercury 10 Apr. 6/1: A lady [...] who deposed to some misdemeanour on the part of her servants [...] stated that one of them was ‘a wee bit squiffy’.at squiffy, adj.
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