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Birmingham Dly Post 5 Oct. 2/4: Deacon brown, who knows nothing of accent and quality, and is still more at sea among his aspirates.at all at sea (adj.) under sea, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 5 Oct. 2/4: Deacon brown, who knows nothing of accent and quality, and is still more at sea among his aspirates. Birmingham Dly Post 26 Dec. 3/4: ‘My mother, known as “Flash Poll” [...] deserted me to become a “gay” woman’.at gay, adj.
Birmingham Dly Post 12 July 4/5: Our workmen do not lose time on Saturday, nor do they keep St Monday.at keep St Monday (v.) under St Monday, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 26 Dec. 3/4: ‘We made our way to London and hung out at a pudding ken [sic] in the Mint (lived at a common lodging-house)’.at padding ken (n.) under pad, v.1
Birmingham Dly Post 26 Dec. 3/4: ‘I pall’d in with a moll (cohabited with a girl)’.at pal in (v.) under pal, v.
Birmingham Dly Post 26 Dec. 3/4: I had heard the ‘shoful pitchers’ (passers of bad coin) tell to each other [...] the horrors of transportation.at shoful-pitcher (n.) under shoful, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 26 Dec. 3/4: ‘I had to enter shops, and having purchased some trifling article, do a “smash” [...] I have “smashed” as much as 30s a day’.at do a smash (v.) under smash, n.2
Birmingham Dly Post 26 Dec. 3/4: ‘We worked our “garotting business” [...] My mate in front of the man was called “Front Stall”; the other [...] behind the man, was called “Back Stall” ’.at stall, n.1
Birmingham Dly Post 26 Dec. 3/4: ‘We did a little in “stoucking-hauling” line (pocket handkerchief stealing) but soon found that “stoucks” don’t fetch above threepence’’.at stook hauler (n.) under stook, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 30 Dec. 3/2: The youngsters come [...] to the great school room; the desks are removed [...] and the books, and the slates, and even great ‘tickle-toby’ are laid by.at tickle-toby (n.) under tickle, v.
Birmingham Dly Post 26 Dec. 3/4: ‘We worked our “garotting business” [...] the man [...] who put “the hug on” was called [the] “Ugly Man”’.at uglyman (n.) under ugly, adj.
Birmingham Dly Post 25 Dec. 2/7: Jack-at-a-Pinch had hard work to carry him upstairs and put him to bed.at jack-at-a-pinch (n.) under jack, n.1
Birmingham Dly Post 20 Oct. 6/3: Fashionable slang [...] borrows its phrases from almost every land, and we have ‘chit’ [...] from the east.at chit, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 20 Oct. 6/3: City slang comes up with ‘kite-flying’.at kite-flying (n.) under kite, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 20 Oct. 6/3: Theatrical slang [has] a ‘screamer’.at screamer, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 23 June 3/5: Thus readily singled out from his fellows he [a game bird] became an easy mark for the sportsman.at easy mark (n.) under mark, n.1
Birmingham Dly Post 17 Aug. 4/5: His opponent [...] shot out on the mouth and nose, drawing a first instalment of carmine.at carmine, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 22 Sept. 6/4: [headline] ‘Home Rule’ Petticoat Government.at petticoat government (n.) under petticoat, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 7 Jan. 7/7: I have bought a piece of bee from the ‘tommy shop’.at tommy shop (n.) under tommy, n.2
Birmingham Dly Post 22 Sept. 6/4: ‘Wooden overcoat’ is a coffin in Mississippi.at wooden overcoat (n.) under wooden, adj.
Birmingham Dly Post 17 June 7/1: Queen’s Messenger is bound to keep at the top of the tree — for the St. Leger.at top of the tree (adj.) under top, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 29 Nov. 5/1: Edward Brown [...] had got so thoroughly drunk as to be [...] ‘sewn up’ [...] so obfusticated that he could not give any account of himself.at obfusticated, adj.
Birmingham Dly Post 15 June 6/4: You are a fool and a chumpheaded — for telling.at chumphead (n.) under chump, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 1 Mar. 6/1: The Suez Canal [...] that unpoetic ditch across the Ishmus of Suez.at ditch, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 27 Oct. 5/5: He added that when he got free [...] he would ‘chivey’ police constable 53 [...] He also said, significantly, that men did right now-a-days in carrying a good spring-back knife.at chivvy, v.2
Birmingham Dly Post 27 Apr. 6/7: William Bailey (14) [...] was sent to gaol for a month [...] for stealing thirty packets of ‘Cope’s Whiffs’.at whiff, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 30 Apr. 7: In the sky parlour of a house in the Rue des Martyrs, Paris, lives a venerable dame.at sky-parlour (n.) under sky, n.1
Birmingham Dly Post 24 Apr. 8/4: Don’t be so personal you leather-headed old fool.at leather-headed (adj.) under leatherhead, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 7 Feb. 5/5: Jack [...] tried the ‘toasting forks,’ and found them as soft and worthless as old iron. The weapons [etc.].at toasting fork, n.
Birmingham Dly Post 22 July 8/2: This man [...] came up to me, and said, ‘Halloa, old girl; how are you?’ I said, ‘All right, old chap’.at old gal, n.
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