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[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: [from US press] Drunkeness Defined — [...] high-corned, cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, [...] smashed, [...] snubbed, [...] battered [...] soaked, [...] bruised.
at cocked, adj.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: [from US press] Drunkeness Defined — [...] high-corned, cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, [...] smashed, [...] snubbed, [...] battered [...] soaked, [...] bruised.
at corned, adj.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: [from US press] Drunkeness Defined — [...] high-corned, cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, [...] smashed, [...] snubbed, [...] battered [...] soaked, [...] bruised.
at disguised, adj.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: [from US press] Drunkeness Defined — [...] phlegm-cut, fogmatic.
at fogmatic, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: [from US press] Drunkeness Defined — [...] high-corned, cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, [...] smashed, [...] snubbed, [...] battered [...] soaked, [...] bruised.
at jammed, adj.2
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: [from US press] Drunkeness Defined — [...] high-corned, cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, [...] smashed, [...] snubbed, [...] battered [...] soaked, [...] bruised.
at shaved, adj.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: [from US press] Drunkeness Defined — [...] high-corned, cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, [...] smashed.
at smashed, adj.
[Scot] Stirling Observer 15 Oct. 4/3: This conscientious knight of the spigot.
at ...the spigot under knight of the..., n.
[Scot] Stirling Observer 10 June 3/1: This doughty knight of the trencher finished his fear of gluttony by washing all down with a bottle of porter.
at ...the trencher under knight of the..., n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 24 Jan. 2/3: The wildest display of mobocracy.
at mob, n.2
[Scot] Stirling Obs. (Scot.) 19 Aug. 1/5: Let them carry the same load as I have to do [...] and if they didn’t get a sickener of the Kaffir war in that time, I’d eat my hat.
at eat one’s hat, v.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 27 May 3/6: You’ll spit the tobacco-juice of determination in John Bull’s eyes till he has the blind staggers, when you can take him by the tail.
at staggers, n.
[Scot] Stirling Observer 26 Nov. 4/6: Dhobee, H. (dhobi) a washerwoman.
at dhobi, n.
[Scot] Stirling Observer 22 Apr. n.p.: There are many young men who seem to consider it essential to manliness that they should be masters of slang [...] but this dog-English [is] threatening the entire extinction of genuine English!
at dog-English (n.) under dog, n.2
[Scot] Stirling Obs. (Scot.) 15 July 4/7: For a scald, or burn, or bruise, / Holloway’s matchless Ointment use / [...] / If sores [...] riddle / The sleek skin — or Scotch Fiddle.
at Scotch fiddle (n.) under Scotch, adj.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 3 Mar. 3/2: Nabbing ‘Cacklers’ [...] Jane leckie, her daughter, and fanny Monteith were charged with the theft of three common fowls or hens.
at cackler, n.2
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: Brought Before Judge Lynch [...] ‘Are those ropes ready aloft there?’ ‘Judge Lynch called out [...] ‘I kin pass but one sentence — Death’.
at Judge Lynch, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 19 Nov. 3/6: If we put in a few jokes, folks say we are nothing but a rattle-head.
at rattle-head, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 21 July 5/2: None of the aspirants for Kilmadrock ‘corianders’ could congratulate themselves on any great measure of success.
at coriander (seed), n.
[UK] Stirling Obs. 18 May 5/4: An ‘Argie-Bargie’ and its Result.
at argy-bargy, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 9 Mar. 5/5: Mr Paterson [...] had a set-to with Mr walker of Campsie, a crack hand [i.e. at draughts].
at crack hand (n.) under crack, adj.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 12 Oct. 5/3: A ride of a mile and a half brought us from Gallows Hill (where many a ‘neck verse’ has been sung) to Keir Mains.
at neck verse (n.) under neck, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 5 July 6/3: We sat [...] together cracking [...] nor was anybody more likly to cast up.
at cast up (v.) under cast, v.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 15 Nov. 8/6: O’Neill, a tramp or flying stationer [...] was sentenced to pay a fine of 10s.
at flying stationer (n.) under fly, v.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 5 July 6/3: ‘For Lord’s sake, prime the gun [...] or our throats will be cut from lug to lug before we can cry Jack Robertson!’.
at before one can say Jack Robinson under Jack Robinson, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 5 July 6/3: ‘’Od but my hear nearly louped off the bit’.
at od, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 5 July 6/3: ‘It was a frightful thing [...] to be murdered [...] at the dead hour of night by unearthly resurrection men’.
at resurrection man (n.) under resurrection, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 5 July 6/3: ‘They’re coming! they’re coming,’ he cried; ‘cock the piece, ye sumph’.
at sonofabitch, n.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 12 Sept. 5/6: Och, tare an’ ages! Is there iver a man av yez can pick up mi cabeen?
at tare an’ ages!, excl.
[Scot] Stirling Obs. 7 Feb. 8/3: My waicht is aboot fyfteen stane, / And my build is what critics ca Dutch.
at Dutch, adj.1
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