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Carlisle Jrnl 6 Dec. 4/7: Wellingtons — Wellingtons! cheap I cry, / Portugee devils — mind your eye!at mind your eye! (excl.) under eye, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 6 Dec. 4/7: Wellingtons — Wellingtons! cheap I cry, / Portugee devils — mind your eye! Carlisle Jrnl 28 Apr. 4/2: The lassie he chuses suld be examined as weel. She suld be nae daft Gill-flirt fit for naething but dressin’, dancin’, cardin’.at gill-flirt, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 28 Apr. 4/2: She may be the get o’ some ‘foreign hoganmogan’.at get, n.1
Carlisle Jrnl 28 Apr. 4/2: She may be the get o’ some ‘foreign hoganmogan’.at hogan-mogan, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 2 Nov. 4/2: If the old woman should drop off, I should not be very much surprised to see these two farms thrown into one.at drop off, v.1
Carlisle Jrnl 26 Sept. 4/4: O doctor! come quick! tarnation’s to pay over at our house!at tarnation, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 5 Aug. 2/8: Five ladies of the pavé have been brought up for being drunk and disorderly of the streets.at nymph of the pavé, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 22 Feb. 2/8: He has again been called over the coals.at call over the coals (v.) under call, v.
Carlisle Jrnl 18 Jan. 3/1: ‘Shall I put a pig in your bed to keep you warm?’.at pig, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 27 June 4/1: Puffing all our cares away, / A fine old thing is a yard of clay.at yard of clay (n.) under yard, n.4
Carlisle Jrnl 11 Feb. 2/4: This was Lord George’s fault, [...] he had a kick in his gallop. He would not go the length of denying civil rights to a man who differed from him in religious opinion.at kick in one’s gallop (n.) under kick, n.5
Carlisle Jrnl 4 July 6/1: Enacting the captain in a red coat, spy-glass, and a beaver cock and pinch.at cock and pinch (n.) under cock, v.4
Carlisle Jrnl 1 June 5/2: [He] expressed [the] disgust with which the army regarded the promotion of this carpet-warrior to one of the posts professedly reserved for old and distinguished soldiers.at carpet knight, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 25 May 6/6: If I did not trot one whole half mile without a single throw, I am a ‘shotten herring’ (Water Ouzel).at shotten herring, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 25 Dec. 6/3: As I strolled down Piccadilly, / A scrumptious gal I met / [...] / Her dress was held up high. / Chorus — O did you twig her ankle?at scrumptious, adj.
Carlisle Jrnl 25 Dec. 6/3: As I strolled down Piccadilly, / A scrumptious gal I met / [...] / Her dress was held up high. / Chorus — O did you twig her ankle?at twig, v.2
Carlisle Jrnl 4 Mar. 9/5: If no objection had been raised when the ‘Si Quis’ was read, further opportunities were afforded at his ordination as a deacon.at si quis, n.
Carlisle Jrnl 22 Dec. 6/1: Their hair hanging loosely about their shoulders, as rough as a badger’s back.at ...a badger’s arse under rough as..., adj.
Carlisle Jrnl 6 Jan. 5/3: Pitcher, the bloated blue bottle, with his swallow-tailed blue and pewter buttons.at blue and pewter (n.) under blue, adj.1
Carlisle Jrnl 20 Nov. 2/6: On Sunday week a young man as fluent and gesticulatory as any ‘Bible-thumper’ [...] gave us a lively sermon.at bible-thumper (n.) under bible, n.
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