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Western Gaz. 26 Dec. 7/1: O wasn’t it galopshus?at golopshus, adj.
Western Gaz. 26 Dec. 7/1: O wasn’t it galopshus? Western Gaz. 14 Mar. 4/2: The pangs of a guilty conscience pricked him, and he dropped the bag [...] like a man would drop a hot potato.at hot potato, n.1
Western Gaz. 7 Nov. 3/5: One is an old Californian digger, the other a knight of the quill.at ...the quill under knight of the..., n.
Western Gaz. 20 Feb. 3/3: He wants to know why a gentleman in blue was present.at gentleman in blue (and white) (n.) under gentleman, n.
Western Gaz. 23 Jan. 3/5: Calling [...] to beg a glass of the right sort.at right sort, n.
Western Gaz. 29 Nov. 4/6: The following characters were introduced: Artemus Addlepate [...] Cornelius Crackbrain.at crackbrain, n.
Western Gaz. 12 Aug. 5/4: Large numbers of people known as ‘bum-boat’ men and women go from Portsmouth in wherries to supply the crews.at bum-boat, n.
Western Gaz. 14 Feb. 3/1: Grammercy, fayre lady, ye rose is redde, i’fackins, ye violets blue.at i’fecks!, excl.
Western Gaz. 14 May 3/2: The Yankee seems to talk big about making us pay the Alabama claims.at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
Western Gaz. 14 May 3/2: The Yankee seems to talk big about [...] his botheration war with the South.at botheration, n.
Western Gaz. 14 May 3/2: Yankee Clap-Doodle.at clap-trap, n.1
Western Gaz. 14 May 3/2: As if the British could not lick the Yankee into fits.at lick into fits (v.) under lick, v.1
Western Gaz. 5 Mar. 5/1: ‘Obadiah’ [...] our unfortunate neighbour is monomaniac.at Obadiah, n.
Western Gaz. 30 June 3/3: Law sakes, I thought I smelt something good.at law sakes! (excl.) under laws!, excl.
Western Gaz. 11 Sept. 8/3: Shortly afterwards ‘a gentleman in blue’ arrived, and took the unhappy being into custody .at gentleman in blue (and white) (n.) under gentleman, n.
Western Gaz. 16 Oct. 8/1: I went to Jem Spikes as is a bit of a Methody an tuld in mi drem.at Methody, n.
Western Gaz. 27 Dec. 3/5: O! George, thou dough-baked fellow!at dough-baked (adj.) under dough, n.
Western Gaz. 4 Jan. 6/2: A donkey match between a well-known ex-steeple chase gentleman rider’s ‘Fly Away’ and a celebrated knight of the cleaver’s ‘Jemmy’.at ...the cleaver (and steel) under knight of the..., n.
Western Gaz. 12 Nov. 6/1: He had a ‘palatic’ stroke [...] He was very drinkey.at drinky, adj.
Western Gaz. 12 Nov. 6/1: He had a ‘palatic’ stroke [...] He was very drinkey.at palatic, adj.
Western Gaz. (Somerset) 28 Jan. 3/5: As sure as God made little applers I am ready to die for my childrenb.at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
Western Gaz. (Somerset) 2 Sept. 8/1: The person allued to bawlsd in the street like a ‘turnpike sailor,’ and damns right and left all whom he suppooses not to be in sympathy with him.at turnpike sailor, n.
Western Gaz. 7 Sept. 5/6: A ‘Hallelujah lass’ was so severely kicked that she was obliged to ‘fall out of the ranks’.at hallelujah lass (n.) under hallelujah, adj.
Western Gaz. 8 Dec. 6/4: Gale must have been the worse for liquor when he returned on the Sunday evening [...] in the morning he was ‘half slewed’.at half-slewed, adj.
Western Gaz. 25 Mar. 10/5: [advert] Dickory Dock — 7 o’clock the bains trip up to bed.at dickory dock, n.
Western Gaz. 18 Apr. 5/5: [headline] Dorset v. Wilts. ‘Moonrakers’ Defeated.at moon-raker, n.
Western Gaz. 21 Dec. 13/3: This Week’s Prize Menu [...] Bubble and Squeak.at bubble and squeak, n.1
Western Gaz. 23 Mar. 12/2: Instead of tea [he] brought a jug, containing a thin soup, very hot to the throat, known to casuals as ‘cock broth’.at cock-broth (n.) under cock, n.3
Western Gaz. 8 June 11/4: Hangmen’s ropes had been made at Bridport from very early times, which gave rise to the expression, ‘May he be stabbed with a Bridport dagger’.at stabbed with a Bridport dagger (adj.) under stab, v.
Western Gaz. 28 June 13/2: Joan [...] delights in ‘talking big’. She likes to impress people with a sense of her own importance.at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
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