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[UK] Swindon Advertiser 23 Oct. 2/2: Then do the boys shout, then do the boys sing, then do they chi-ike.
at chi-ike, v.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 22 Jan. 3/2: [...] to have a glass and a pipe and to hold a conflab as to the propriety and righteousness of docking their men a shilling a week.
at conflab, n.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 11 Nov. 4/1: Your Carnarvons might ride rusty, or your Cranbornes cut up crusty.
at crusty, adj.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 11 Nov. 4/1: Your Carnarvons might ride rusty, or your Cranbornes cut up crusty.
at cut up, v.1
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 11 Nov. 4/1: Last I had to make ’em fly, not at faking ‘skin’ or ‘cly’, but picking a party’s pocket of note of hand or bill.
at fly, adj.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 11 Nov. 4/1: Fagin’s Academy [...] I’d like to teach sleight of hand as well as speech. Something more than ‘frisking till,’ ‘snaking skin,’ or ‘faking fob’.
at frisk, v.2
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 11 Nov. 4/1: I taught ’em [...] how to slip out of one’s skin, and another slip in [...] And, if copped, to queer the jug by making up a mug.
at queer, v.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 11 Nov. 4/1: Your Carnarvons might ride rusty, or your Cranbornes cut up crusty.
at ride rusty (v.) under ride, v.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 11 Nov. 4/1: Fagin’s Academy [...] I’d like to tgeach sleight of hand as well as speech. Something more than ‘frisking till,’ ‘snaking skin, ’ or ‘faking fob’.
at snake, v.2
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 17 Oct. 3/2: I told him that if he did not shut up I would put a bullet through him, and he soon shut it when I showed him the ‘barking iron’.
at barking iron, n.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 17 Oct. 3/2: I thought we had better have a ‘doss’ (sleep) under the hedge.
at doss, n.1
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 5 Dec. 9/2: He then told witness to ‘go to Putney’.
at go to Putney (on a pig)! (excl.) under Putney, n.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 12 May 4/3: At 8 a.m. [Tommy] takes his breakfast and he has a choice ‘khaki’ steak — ‘as tough as leather’ — and bread and butter.
at khaki steak (n.) under khaki, n.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 3 Nov. 8/6: Boys of the average kind [...] remember [...] when their exact attire called forth the twerm ‘sissy boy’.
at sissy, n.
[UK] Swindon Advertiser 6 Dec. 7/4: If [...] the enemy aeroplanes came over and dropped bombs [...] he would go into the nearest funk hole.
at funkhole (n.) under funk, n.2
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