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Western Mail 2 Oct. 6/1: [T]he Lotties and Totties, the Blanches [...] and Violets who flash their charms before the foot-lights.at lotties and totties, n.
Western Mail 2 Oct. 6/1: [T]he Lotties and Totties, the Blanches [...] and Violets who flash their charms before the foot-lights. Western Mail 29 Dec. 3/4: Tho’ fools may vow / That ’tis to toy, blaspheme, or royster —.at roister, n.
Western Mail (Wales) 13 Apr. 4/5: In Liverpool they do not permit the sale of calves called ‘slink’ or ‘staggering Bob’.at staggering bob, n.
Western Mail (S. Glamorgan) 22 June 2/9: The world is waiting to see which way the cat jumps.at see which way the cat jumps (v.) under cat, n.1
Western Mail 7 May 3/6: Mr Williams had asked the electors why they should elect him (Captain Otway) because he ‘blew a yard of tin.’ [...] If he [...] did blow a yard of tin he yielded to Mr. Williams in blowing his own trumpet.at yard of tin (n.) under tin, n.
Western Mail (S. Glamorgan) 9 Apr. 4/9: The great splatter dash of a Dissenting pulpit drummer, Dr Parker.at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
Western Mail (S. Glamorgan) 9 Apr. 4/9: The great splatter dash of a Dissenting pulpit drummer, Dr Parker.at splatterdash (n.) under splatter, n.
Western Mail 28 Feb. 4/7: In the county of Angelsea there lived a most remarkable physician, a slovenly stuff-gut, of a hang-dog of a Saxon-type.at stuff-gut (n.) under stuff, v.1
Western Mail 16 Oct. 3/7: ‘I ain’t going to have any more at that blinking old school,’ he tells her.at blinking, adj.
Western Mail 16 Oct. 3/7: The ‘ossifer’ fails to find his whereabouts for a while, thus he mitches, and in his own phrase ‘has high jinks along with the “nabs” making the dock’.at mitch, v.
Western Mail 16 Oct. 3/7: The ‘ossifer’ fails to find his whereabouts for a while, thus he mitches, and in his own phrase ‘has high jinks along with the “nabs” making the dock’.at nab, n.2
Western Mail (Wales) 7 Apr. 3/8: Dr Price appeared clad in the well-known green unwhisperables.at unmentionables, n.
Western Mail (Wales) 24 June 3/8: Such is the shebeener when tippling in his favourite sly haunts.at shebeener (n.) under shebeen, n.
Western Mail (Wales) 24 June 3/8: To shebeen, therefore, is to sell liquor slyly in this manner [i.e. illegally].at shebeen, v.
Western Mail (Wales) 24 June 3/8: Shebeen-shops are enclosed places where spirituous liquors are sold at forbidden hours.at shebeen shop (n.) under shebeen, n.
Western Mail (Wales) 29 Nov. 4/4: Mary Conway, an inveterate shebeener was at Cardiff Police-court yesterday fined £10.at shebeener (n.) under shebeen, n.
Western Mail 21 Dec. n.p.: A 'German duck,' or 'Field-lane duck,' is in ordinary eating-house mock heroic for a sheep's head stewed with onions.at German duck, n.1
Western Mail 21 Dec. n.p.: A 'German duck,' or 'Field-lane duck,' is in ordinary eating-house mock heroic for a sheep's head stewed with onions.at Field Lane duck, n.
Western Mail 14 Jan. 4/7: Our government of jobbery and gaggery only keeps its place by bribery, intimidation, corruption and coercion.at gag, n.
ref. to 1854) Western Mail 18 Mar. 5/4: The regimental band with ‘ingling Johnny’ (an instrument taken during the Crimean War).at jingling johnny, n.
Western Mail 14 Dec. 6/5: Never touched a drop for three years [...] They don’t lush us up in Pentonville.at lush (it) up (v.) under lush, v.
Western Mail 10 Jan. 7/7: I am in favour of fighting for free coinage at 16 to 1 [...] until hell freezes over.at until hell freezes (over) under hell, n.
Western Mail 13 Oct. 6/7: The poppet hill Working men’s Club [...] popularly known as the ‘Fleapit’.at fleapit, n.
Western Mail (Wales) 28 Mar. 6/7: ‘The Dandy Sheeny Coon’ [...] is his latest success.at sheeny, adj.
Western Mail 8 Jan. 6/5: Very much ‘doggo’, or lie-low, brer rabbit, kept the Dutchmen. Not a word or shot did they return.at lie doggo (v.) under lie, v.1
Western Mail 21 June 4/8: ‘Suffering Moses!’ exclaimed the angry one.at Moses!, excl.
Western Mail (Wales) 5 Jan. 7/8: Ellen O’Brien, a shebeener, who had weathered 34 years with only two convictions, was charged with selling beer without a license.at shebeener (n.) under shebeen, n.
Western Mail 26 Sept. 50/3: ‘’Oo are you callin’ a dirty tyke?’.at dirty, adj.
Western Mail 15 Feb. 12/5: ‘There is a duty on the part of a husband to see that his wife does not run on ‘tick’.at run on tick (v.) under tick, n.3
Western Mail 10 Jan. 10/3: His Birthday Suit [...] The man went out of his mind, and ran about the High-street [...] without a vestige of clothing.at birthday suit, n.
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