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[UK] Staffs Advertiser 4 Feb. 3/1: Madam, I find you little know their route, I hear, for certain, they’re gone North-about [...] For crowds have buzz’d it through the Castle Yard.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] Staffs. Advertiser 31 Aug. 3/1: His father hung on Tyburn tree, / His mother too, transported she.
at Tyburn tree (n.) under Tyburn, n.
[UK] Staffs. Advertiser 17 May 3/1: Do I go to hob or nob in white wine, I am probably told red is better.
at hob nob, v.
[UK] Staffs. Advertiser 1 Aug. 3/1: [of poems] ‘Trifles, trifles indeed, mere bagatelles [...] a catchpenny, no doubt.’ [...] ‘No catchpenny, Sir; they are my own composition, and were never sold, but printed for a few friends’.
at catchpenny, n.
[UK] Staffs. Advertiser 12 Apr. 3/3: Thousands, who at a price of five bob a nob (readily forked out) took their station [...] in order to have their share of the pleasures of the mill.
at bob a nob (n.) under bob, n.3
[UK] Staffs. Advertiser 7 Mar. 4/1: Make the way for us chaps as will go the whole hog.
at go the whole hog (v.) under whole hog, n.
[UK] Staffs. Advertiser 28 Oct. 3/7: Insley called him out of the office by the appellation of ‘Mutton Head’.
at mutton-head, n.
[UK] Staffs. Advertiser 1 Nov. 7/4: ‘Never mind my brain. It’s not “snozzled” like yours’.
at snozzled, adj.
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