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‘The Ghost of Art’ in Household Words 20 July 387/1: I saw that the lower part of his face was tied up, in what is commonly called a Belcher handkerchief.at belcher, n.1
‘The Ghost of Art’ in Household Words 20 July 387/1: I saw that the lower part of his face was tied up, in what is commonly called a Belcher handkerchief. ‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 74/2: Let some fellow rush forward and roar out ‘It’s all serene,’ or ‘Catch ’em alive, oh!’ (this last is sure to take) pit, boxes, and gallery roar with laughter.at catch ’em alive oh!, excl.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 74/2: Let some fellow rush forward and roar out ‘It’s all serene,’ or ‘Catch ’em alive, oh!’ (this last is sure to take), pit, boxes, and gallery roar with laughter.at all serene, adj.
Household Words xx 326: A stout negro of the flat back tribe – known among comic writers as b flats.at b flat, n.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For the one word drunk [...] muggy, beery, winey, slewed [etc.].at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 77/1: A benefit is a ‘ben.’.at ben, n.2
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: Shillings [are] bobs, or benders.at bender, n.1
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: Fourpenny pieces [are] joeys or bits.at bit, n.1
Household Words 18 293/2: The eve of Black Monday used to be kept on Saturday, when the school box was packed. We then used to get out our books with solemn faces.at black Monday (n.) under black, adj.
‘Roving Englishman’ in Household Words VII 119/1: Bless my heart, how full of gristle and onions these sausages are.at bless my heart! (excl.) under bless, v.1
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: To pawn is to spout, to pop, to lumber, to blue.at blue, v.2
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For the one word drunk [...] bosky, huffy, boozy, mops and brooms, half-seas-over [etc.].at bosky, adj.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 76/1: A Punch’s show [is] a schwassle-box.at swatchel-box, n.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For the one word drunk [...] buffy, boozy, mops and brooms, half-seas-over [etc.].at buffy, adj.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For the one word drunk [...] far-gone, tight, not able to see a hole through a ladder, three sheets in the wind [etc.].at can’t see a hole in a (forty-foot) ladder under can’t..., phr.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: Crownpieces are bulls, and cart-wheels.at cartwheel, n.1
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 77/1: A vehicle which is not a drag (or dwag) is a ‘trap’ or ‘cask.’.at cask, n.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: Money – the bare, plain, simple word itself [...] might have sufficed, yet we substitute for it – [...] ready, mopusses shiners, dust, chips, chinkers [etc.].at chinkers, n.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: Money – the bare, plain, simple word itself [...] might have sufficed, yet we substitute for it – tin, rhino, blunt, rowdy, stumpy, dibbs, browns, stuff, ready, mopusses shiners, dust, chips [etc.].at chip, n.2
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For one article of drink, gin, we have [...] cream of the valley, white satin, old Tom.at cream of the valley (n.) under cream, n.1
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 76/1: Food is grub, prog, and crug.at crug, n.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 77/1: Everything that pleases him is ‘crushing, by Jove!’.at crushing, adj.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 77/1: When his friend has mortgaged his estate, he pronounces it to be ‘dipped.’.at dip, v.1
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 74/2: If there had been any of that commodity [i.e. slang] floating about in polite circles then, the Dean would have been the man to dish it up for posterity.at dish (out), v.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: . To say that a man is without money, or in poverty, some persons remark that he is down on his luck, hard up, stumped up, in Queer Street, under a cloud, up a tree, quisby, done up, sold up, in a fix.at done up, adj.1
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For one article of drink, gin, we have [...] duke, jackey, tape, blue-ruin, cream of the valley, white satin, old Tom.at duke, n.2
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: Money – the bare, plain, simple word itself [...] might have sufficed, yet we substitute for it – tin, rhino, blunt, rowdy, stumpy, dibbs, browns, stuff, ready, mopusses, shiners, dust [etc.].at dust, n.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For the one word drunk [...] far-gone, tight, not able to see a hole through a ladder, three sheets in the wind [etc.].at far gone, adj.
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: Sixpenny-pieces are fiddlers and tizzies.at fiddler, n.3
‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For one article of drink, gin, we have [...] max, juniper, gatter, duke, jackey, tape, blue-ruin, cream of the valley, white satin, old Tom.at gatter, n.
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