![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
Wrexham Advertiser 16 Dec. 2/6: ’Tis drink that pulls the country down, / So change the swipes-pot for the tea.at swipes, n.
Wrexham Advertiser 16 Dec. 2/6: ’Tis drink that pulls the country down, / So change the swipes-pot for the tea. Wrexham Advertiser 6 Aug. 4/2: The lady made a dead set upon the Welsh harp [...] calling it ‘a weak and paltry instrument’.at dead set, n.
Wrexham Advertiser 14 May 7/6: For legal lambs who’d ‘crack a crib,’ / Or levy, serve a writ, / Or ‘patter flash’ with accent glib.at patter flash (v.) under patter, v.
Wrexham Advertiser 4 May 3/6: The most successful demonstration [...] displayed by English pickpockets. In the act of ‘faking a cly’ they are unrivalled.at fake a cly (v.) under fake, v.1
Wrexham Advertiser 2 Mar. 7/1: In the language of the prize-ring [...] a man has not a head, but a ‘nut,’ or ‘pimple’.at pimple, n.2
Wrexham Advertiser 2 Mar. 7/1: In the language of the prize-ring [...] a man has not [...] legs, but ‘pins’ or ‘understandings’s.at understandings, n.1
Wrexham Advertiser 21 Mar. 7/3: An ‘early bird’ endeavours to [...] agitate for an earlier delivery of letters in Fairfield.at early bird, n.1
Wrexham Advertiser 8 Jan. 8/3: He said he would ‘knock seven bells’ out of the prosecutor.at knock seven bells out of (v.) under bell, n.1
Wrexham Advertiser 25 June 7/5: The knight of the needle delivered them.at ...the needle under knight of the..., n.
Wrexham Advertiser 20 Aug. 5/1: If this is what you call gardening, I have had pretty near a sickener of it.at sickener, n.
Wrexham Advertiser 25 Mar. 5/2: A man [...] applied at the workhouse for a wife, and one of the inmates felt inclined to join giblets with him.at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
Wrexham Advertiser 18 Mar. 3/1: As Britons still we seek / The good of dear old England, / Although we wear the leek.at wear the leek (v.) under wear, v.1
Wrexham Advertiser 12 Sept. 7/7: ‘Gadso!’ cried the squabbler.at gadso! (excl.) under gad, n.1
Wrexham Advertiser 17 May 2/4: ‘As sure as a gun’ is a worthy old phrase that doesn’t seem to apply in our days.at sure as a gun under sure as..., phr.
Wrexham Advertiser 30 Jan. 6/4: He thought it insulting to the Board to charge them with trying to ‘earwig’ the magistrates.at earwig, v.1
Wrexham Advertiser 17 Dec. 6/2: If anyone should come down, swear blind I ghave you nothing.at swear blind (v.) under swear, v.
Wrexham Advertiser (Wales) 6 June 3/5: The ancient and interesting town of Macclesfield, commonly called by the natives ‘Treacle Town’.at Treacle Town, n.
Wrexham Advertiser 18 Nov. 3/5: He’s [i.e. John Bull] glad to tread a peaceful track / Till others hit him fist, ker-smack!at kersmack! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Wrexham Advertiser 15 July 6/2: He [...] was a knight of the needle for the last eighteen years.at ...the needle under knight of the..., n.
Wrexham Advertiser 7 June 2/5: When Baden-Powell was quartered at Malta, he was pestered with the attentions odf a lively girl who answered to the description of ‘a garrison hack’.at garrison hack, n.
no more results