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Yorks. Gaz. 6 Apr. 2/1: Old Cobbett, the bone-grubber, paid a visit to this city yesterday.at bone-grubber (n.) under bone, n.1
Yorks. Gaz. 6 Apr. 2/1: Old Cobbett, the bone-grubber, paid a visit to this city yesterday. Yorks Gaz. 6 Apr. 3/1: The ingenuious Editor has contrived to dish up sucha mixture of harrogate water, Radical Politics, Rights of the People, etc., etc. as since the sdays of the the renowned Dean Swift’s ‘Maw Wallop’ was never offered.at maw-wallop (n.) under maw, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 6 Sept. 4/5: Mrs Husband will leave off clacking to Mrs Clack and Mr Clack will never again box the ears of Mrs Husband, clack as she may.at clack, v.
Yorks. Gaz. 8 May 4/3: Prologue [...] spoken by the Author, as Captain Flash.at Captain Flash (n.) under captain, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 1 Dec. 3/3: He took a firmer grip of Obadiah’s collar [...] threatening to knock him into smithereens.at smithereens, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 3 Apr. 4/4: At the early age of fifteen I began to serve my country with brown Bess on my shoulder, as a common soldier.at brown bess, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 3 Apr. 4/4: I also had the honour to pay for brown Bess myself. Yes, Sir, and she cost me ten Joes.at joe, n.2
Yorks. Gaz. 3 Apr. 4/4: I also had the honour to pay for brown Bess myself. Yes, Sir, and she cost me ten Joes.at yes sir!, excl.
Yorks. Gaz. 5 Apr. 3/5: This statement was proved by Thos. Steele, who witnessed the affray, and who also had a promise of a ‘walloping’ from Holdgate.at walloping (n.) under wallop, v.
Yorks. Gaz. 19 Sept. n.p.: Booth was big drunk, and Newton was half-skewed.at big, adv.
Yorks. Gaz. 19 Sept. n.p.: Booth was big drunk, and Newton was half-skewed.at skewed, adj.
Yorks. Gaz. 21 May 2/7: He might have sworn not to cut a slice of green cheese from the moon, [but] the oath was just as farcical as being ‘sworn on the Horns at Highgate’ .at sworn at Highgate, phr.
Yorks. Gaz. 10 Dec. 2/7: The utmost that the council seem likely to dare in the matter of clothing the police, is the replacing the battered old great coats with new and warm dreadnaughts.at dreadnought, n.1
Yorks. Gaz. 21 May 4/3: Si Quis knows nearly as much about logic as the mites in a cheese know of last Sunday’s eclipse.at si quis, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 12 Dec. n.p.: Justice to bogland that gem of the waters. / Aye, justice to her, and her sons and her daughters.at bogland (n.) under bog, n.3
Yorks. Gaz. 12 Dec. n.p.: I must try a new scheme, for the pisantry [sic] lads / Are smelling a rat and won’t tip up the brads.at tip the brads (v.) under brad, n.1
Yorks. Gaz. 12 Dec. n.p.: That diddler in Greek loans, he’s not to be done, / No, Sawney’s too canny, he‘ll ne’er be a go.at go, n.1
Yorks. Gaz. 12 Dec. n.p.: He tipp’d off the cratur [...] and ordered his cab / To do his precursoring ramble, smack dab.at smack-dab (adv.) under smack, adv.
Yorks. Gaz. 5 Sept. 4/6: We always expected that the Broomstick Marriage Act would be treated as a dead letter by the people of this country.at broomstick marriage, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 14 May 3/6: Thomas Pole, alias Scottie [...] and Richard Tidy were [...] charged with wilful murder.at Scotchie, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 4 May 6/5: The prisoner observed to her that he had made a fine 'crack,' and handed her some articles.at crack, n.4
Yorks. Gaz. 4 May 6/5: Anderson proposed that [...] he (prisoner) should be the 'nailer' and he (witness) should be the 'finger-smith'.at finger-smith (n.) under finger, n.
Yorks Gaz. 11 Dec. 4/3: Nothing but Galvanism can effectively cure [...] Nervous,Trembling, St Vitus’ Dance, Hysteria.at St Vitus’s dance, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 15 Sept. 5/1: [He] invited his friends to coffee and French cream on the morning of the poll.at French cream (n.) under French, adj.
Yorks Gaz. 25 Jan. 3/2: An adour [...] assailed her nose and caused her to exclaim ‘Snakes alive, Bridget! What’s the matter now?’.at snakes (alive)!, excl.
Yorks. Gaz. 13 June 11/2: Quainton, we see, has been revelling in leather-flapping and hurdle-racing latterly.at flapping, n.
Yorks. Gaz. 8 Aug. 8/2: That money which is wasted [...] amongst shab-rag noblemen and soiled noblewomen.at shab-rag, adj.
Yorks. Gaz. 22 July 4/6: It was a piece of clap-trap to catch the farmer.at clap-trap, n.1
Yorks. Gaz. 29 Sept. 8/2: Just as he sees which way the cat jumps will he determine as to the extent of his demands.at see which way the cat jumps (v.) under cat, n.1
Yorks. Gaz. 24 Dec. 5/4: Oh! I can knock the socks off ’n these swell-head teachers and not half try!at swellhead, n.2
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