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[UK] J. Hollingshead Ragged London 19: A place called Sharp’s Alley was once famous for making common sausages of refuse meat, known in the slang of the district as ‘bloodworms’.
at blood-worm (n.) under blood, n.1
[UK] J. Hollingshead Ragged London 123: A cats’-meat shop, where the proprietors complained that they were not able ‘to get their money in’.
at cat’s meat shop (n.) under cat’s meat, n.
[UK] J. Hollingshead Ragged London 27: ‘He’s brought up a heavy family,’ said the old woman, ‘and never asked nobody for anything, until the frost bit him, and now he’s dropped from his eating.’.
at drop, v.1
[UK] J. Hollingshead Ragged London 110: Where the links of new buildings have not yet joined each other you can see fag-ends of courts.
at fag end, n.
[UK] J. Hollingshead Ragged London 27: ‘He’s brought up a heavy family,’ said the old woman, ‘and never asked nobody for anything.’.
at heavy, adj.
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