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[UK] Shoreditch Obs. 2 Oct. 3/2: A Pot of Beer is a first-rate receipt for Confloption of the Bowels.
at confloption, n.
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. 16 Oct. 3/2: [He] will in all probability ‘dine with Duke Humphrey’ with what he will get out of this lot.
at dine with Duke Humphrey (v.) under dine, v.
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. (London) 10 Dec. 3/5: So I calls out to him, ‘Go and hang yourself, you and your lucifer matches’.
at go hang...! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. (London) 10 Dec. 3/5: The bobby touches me on the shoulder [...] and says ‘Come along’ [...] and he lugs me off here.
at lug, v.1
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. (London) 10 Dec. 3/5: He ups with a hairbrush and heaves it at me.
at up, v.
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. (London) 7 Jan. 3/5: The lady in the ‘shoful’ arrived and sprung out, [...] seized her spouse [...] pushed him into the ‘shoful’ and got in after him.
at shoful, n.
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. 24 Aug. 3/4: We defy him to combat, the enormous roaring ruffian!
at roaring, adj.
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. 24 Nov. n.p.: The hostility to the Committee has been unbounded on the part of the ‘brokered’ Vestrymen.
at brokered, adj.
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. 23 Mar. 3/1: When i was amkng beggars in St Mary-axe, he [...] took immediate umbrage if anyone used the phrase [...] ‘All a holiday in Peckham’.
at all holiday at Peckham under Peckham, n.
[UK] Shoreditch Observer 9 Aug. 3/3: After-Claps [...] There had been a dispute [...] and Mrs Peck alleged that Newsman struck her several violent blows.
at after-clap, n.
[UK] Shoreditch Obs. 6 Jan. 6/3: The shuffling tricks and devices of Mr Balfour, have so shaken the faith of the masses.
at shuffle, v.
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