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Sussex Agric. Exp. 1 June 7/3: The boy did not like bread and scrape [...] he wanted something more than bread and scrape.at scrape, n.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 1 June 7/3: The boy did not like bread and scrape [...] he wanted something more than bread and scrape. Sussex Agric. Exp. 15 Mar. 8/3: The clergy had gone ramping mad over their miserable vested interests.at ramping, adv.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 13 May 5/3: Defendant said he pleaded guilty to hitting the lad because he ‘run cheeky’ [...] Witness ‘cheeked’ him [and] the defendant knocked him down again.at run cheeky (v.) under cheeky, adj.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 16 May 3/3: The negro [...] seemed to have caught much of ther vivacity of manner and speech of his French masters. Here the chee-chee or patois was ‘nigger-French’.at chee-chee, n.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 5 July 5/4: Mr J. Keeble secured a prize for his comic get up [...] as a ‘Pikey’.at pikey, n.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 28 Mar. 6/5: A convict named Day, who as a red-collar man, was entitled to special privileges.at red-collar (adj.) under red, adj.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 10 Sept. 2/5: People did not go to Church; this was not the fault of the parson, but because people did not want to. Let them put the shoe on the right foot.at put the shoe on the right foot (v.) under shoe, n.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 24 Sept. 9/2: To see them at tea is as good a sight as a tabby meeting; for they discuss their Congou or Bohea with as much delight as a bevy of old maids.at tabby meeting (n.) under tabby, n.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 11 June 9/7: Imagine their being able to get quart of good malt and hop beer for 4d.. and on very hot summer’s day in the hayfield a quart of twopenny, commonly called ‘apron washings’.at apron-washings (n.) under apron, n.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 2 Sept. 2/4: The hop-picking season has arrived, bringing Cocnkeys to the country to enjoy [...] ‘a bloomin’ good, romping, pikey holiday’ .at pikey, n.
Sussex Agric. Exp. 8 Apr. n.p.: [of a dog] He did not know the breed of the dog but thought it a rare one. ‘A snorter, I believe’.at snorter, n.2
Sussex Agric. Exp. 6 Sept. 8/6: Among a collection of ancient bicycles is a first-class boneshaker.at bone-shaker (n.) under bone, n.1
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