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Taunton Courier 19 Dec. 5/1: The Bristol hero gave Hickman so hard a blow on his box of ivories that he retreated.at box of ivories (n.) under box of..., n.
Taunton Courier 19 Dec. 5/1: The Bristol hero gave Hickman so hard a blow on his box of ivories that he retreated. Taunton Courier 19 Dec. 5/1: The London ‘good judges’, as they previously thought themselves, were on the funk.at on the funk (adj.) under funk, n.2
Taunton Courier 18 June 3/3: The splendid mace-coves, swindlers [...] who confederate in divers schemes of plunder, are all to be traced to the King’s Bench or Fleet Prison.at mace-cove (n.) under mace, n.
Taunton Courier 12 Oct. 6/2: They were beaten off by 450 men and three old rattle-trap guns.at rattletrap, adj.
Taunton Courier 15 Feb. 5/4: A cordwainer by trade [...] but an indifferent ‘psalm-smiter’.at psalm-smiter (n.) under psalm, n.
Taunton Courier 16 Feb. 7/2: It is understood that some articles ol plate are now ‘planted’ somewhere the neighbourhood, but the constables have as yet been unable find them. at plant, v.1
Taunton Courier 3 Jan. 8/1: As live as a bird — as dead as a stone.at dead as..., adj.
Taunton Courier 17 Jan. 8/2: Catawampus prices here, that’s a fact; but everybody’s got more dust than he knows what to do with.at catawampus, adj.
Taunton Courier (Somerset) 11 July 4/4: The one will be ‘darned’ and the the other ‘derned’ [...] Should this assertion require additional force, the Northen man will be ‘gaul darned’, and the Southern ‘dod darned’.at dod, n.1
Taunton Courier 17 Jan. 8/2: Catawampus prices here, that’s a fact; but everybody’s got more dust than he knows what to do with.at dust, n.
Taunton Courier (Somerset) 11 July 4/4: The one will be ‘darned’ and the the other ‘derned’ [...] Should this assertion require additional force, the Northen man will be ‘gaul darned’, and the Southern ‘dod darned’.at goldarned, adj.
Taunton Courier 17 Jan. 8/2: It’s amazin’ how long-headed men like Zerubbabel can be such darned idiots.at long-headed, adj.
Taunton Courier 17 Jan. 8/2: I [was] forced to give what that old flint of a Down Easter chose to ask.at skinflint, n.
Taunton Courier 6 Feb. 2/4: These suggestions comprised [...] the experiment of Chinese Coolie servants [to New South Wales].at coolie, n.1
Taunton Courier 3 Apr. 5/2: ‘Soft roed’ is hardly the description for these men. They are gulls from voracity —from their voracity to snatch at any morsels of popular or vulgar applause.at soft-roed (adj.) under soft, adj.
Taunton Courier 4 May 5/2: The principal tobacco smoking will have to take refuge in hedge taverns and pot houses. In good hotels smoking will be forbidden.at hedge-tavern (n.) under hedge, adj.
Taunton Courier 12 Nov. 7/3: The champion [...] however, had his ‘comb-cut’, and though on ‘his own dung-hill’ [...] he was obliged to succumb to his juniors .at comb-cut, v.
Taunton Courier 8 Dec. 4/5: Round you go [...] Right you are!at right you are!, excl.
Taunton Courier 9 July 7/4: Get along, you old fool.at get along with you!, excl.
Taunton Courier 24 June 5/2: The gentleman [said] that he was an irishman to the backbone [...] he proceeded to give a most appropriate illustration of his ‘paddy-whackery’.at paddywhackery (n.) under paddywhack, n.
Taunton Courier 10 Jan. 3/5: A pickpocket dived into one of their pockets [...] but in so doing the unfortunate ‘conveyancer’ entangled his two fingers in some hair line and a fish hook.at conveyancer, n.
Taunton Courier 9 Jan. 5/2: Look here Witcombe, you’ve been dead nuts on this house ever since this young man has lived here. If you were in some places you’d get your head smashed.at dead nuts, adv.
Taunton Courier 19 Aug. 8/5: The first degree was that of sobriety [...] the sixth, when he was ‘mops and besoms’.at mops and brooms, adj.
Taunton Courier 19 Aug. 8/5: A man might be either ‘clipped,’ ‘touched,’ [...] ‘toppy’.at clipped, adj.2
Taunton Courier 19 Aug. 8/5: The first degree was that of sobriety [...] the fifth, when he was ‘fresh’.at fresh, adj.1
Taunton Courier 19 Aug. 8/5: The first degree was that of sobriety [...] the ninth, ‘screwy’.at screwy, adj.
Taunton Courier 19 Aug. 8/5: A man might be either ‘clipped,’ ‘touched,’ [...] ‘toppy’.at toppy, adj.
Taunton Courier 19 Aug. 8/5: A man might be either ‘clipped,’ ‘touched,’ [...] ‘toppy’.at touched, adj.
Taunton Courier 28 July 3/1: Let but Mr Beefhead, the apoplectic flesher, rise to second a motion [etc.].at beefhead, n.
Taunton Courier 17 Nov. 4/5: A rattle-brain story.at rattle-head, n.
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