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Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 229: She is a prime girl; she is A. Number one, copper-bottomed.at A-1, adj.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 229: She is a prime girl; she is A. Number one, copper-bottomed. Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 258: It was ‘jigged, digged, and figged,’ and as the horse was being run up and down by a jockey cove, Tom kept saying to the farmer, ‘You wont buy him, he’s got a nasty nose’.at fig (a horse), v.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 192: After a few years of knocking about and roughing it, she was anything but clean in her person or manners.at knock about, v.1
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 9: After knocking about for some time as a butcher’s boy I resolved [... I would start travelling in some way.at knock about, v.1
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 190: Giving the man such a nose-ender that sent him all abroad.at abroad, adj.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 66: Fred Jolly being head cook and bottle-washer.at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 261: Oh, you go and hang yourself, you So-and-so.at so-and-so, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 223: Let’s argufy the topic properly.at argufy, v.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 257: A yokel [...] blared out, ‘I say, Master Cheap Jack, how much do you want for that article inside, eh?’ thereby meaning Ben’s wife.at article, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 275: You shall go to the workhouse this time – as sure as the devil’s in London to the workhouse you goes!at sure as the devil’s in London under sure as..., phr.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 81: He would [...] start at once calling the people queer names, as gudgeons, mackerel-backs, double-distilled assassins, &c.at assassin, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 260: A Jew was selling cocoa-nut, when the ‘autem-cackler,’ i.e., dissenting minister, came and wanted to impart to the Israelite the sin he committed in carrying on his vocation on such a day [Sunday].at autem-cackler (n.) under autem, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 24: What do you say, old Bacon-face, that I never got it?at bacon-faced (adj.) under bacon, n.1
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 292: They may never have short allowance – ban yan days; or a southerly wind in the Bread Basket.at Banyan day, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 191: Mike when asked by his countrymen why he called Fairbanks a ‘Bark,’ i.e., an Irishman, said, ‘If I had not put the “Bark” on him he would have put it on me, so I had the first pull.’.at bark, n.2
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 46: Sold again, to the barn-door savage. Look at him. What a capital face he’s got to frighten little children.at barndoor savage, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 832: Occasionally it would happen that the one man who first opened out his masked battery for the purpose of disabling the other, would be the first to fall in the action by a random shot, in the shape of a quartern or two of gin made hot to mix in with the grog instead of water.at battery, v.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 99: They each dipped their beakers in, and as soon as they emptied their jugs they were soon filled up again.at beaker, n.1
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 302: If one of the party is at all bold and beery.at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 99: Now it is well-known that travelling mummers are all rare ‘belchers’.at belcher, n.2
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 253: In offering these ‘Bens,’ the plan was to put them on to show how well they fitted.at ben, n.4
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 69: I must ‘dry up,’ for the fellow’s bested me.at best, v.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 234: His game was besting everybody, whether it was for pounds, shillings, or pence.at best, v.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 147: About once in every hour upon slight provocation [he] would rise from his seat and pitch into his better half.at better half, n.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 274: They will think you have stolen it, and so lock you up all night in the black hole.at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 191: He can’t stand to be called by his true name; the bog-trotting rascal denies his Ould Ireland for a mother.at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 217: We bid or praised up his goods: in fact, often acted as ‘puffers’ or ‘bonnets’ to give him a leg up.at bonnet, n.2
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 231: Can you rocker Romanie, / Can you fake a bosh?at bosh, n.2
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 237: He’ll take all the bounce out of you this time.at bounce, n.1
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 41: Oh, I had a piece of pork, and I stuck it on a fork, and I gave it to a Jew-boy-Jew.at Jew boy, n.
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