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Illus. London News 17 Sept. 8/1: The man who looks you thro’ and thro’, / With, ’I’m as good a man as you’ — / A flash, bold, slang, dead-setter.at dead-setter (n.) under dead set, adj.
Illus. London News 17 Sept. 8/1: The man who looks you thro’ and thro’, / With, ’I’m as good a man as you’ — / A flash, bold, slang, dead-setter. Illus. London News 1 July 10/3: The Haymarket still, gives us Kean as the Dane, / But it’s all up the country with Garden and Lane.at all up the country with under all up, adj.
Illus. London News 8 July 6/3: The Times on Thursday turned point blank against Ministers: the thunderer came out with a flash of lightning, and struck Peel all of a heap. It was, in slang terms, a great walk into the minister.at walk into, v.
Illus. London News 15 July 12/1: The thimble and pea-riggers were dispersed by the police.at thimble-rigger, n.
Illus. London News 3 May 278: Lady Lyndhurst gave a ‘carpet’ dance on Tuesday night, at the residence of the Lord Chancellor, in George-street, Hanover square. it was a small and early party, at which about 250 fashionables assembled.at small and early (n.) under small, adj.
Illus. London News 31 July 74/2: The trio coming [...] as hard as they could crack.at crack on, v.1
Illus. London News 1 July 1/2: The working classes, or ‘Red Republicans,’ were imbued with the doctrines of Communism .at red, adj.
Illus. London News 31 Aug. 183/2: ‘l shay, young’un, here’s a shance; fork up a bob, and I’ll put you on a lay you never know nothink of, to vin no end of monish vith the ivories, or the blacks and reds’.at ivory, n.
Illus. London News 31 Aug. 183/2: The words I heard were [...] couched in the purest and raciest Houndsditch slang [...] ‘l shay, young’un, here’s a shance; fork up a bob, and I’ll put you on a lay you never know nothink of, to vin no end of monish vith the ivories, or the blacks and reds’.at lay, n.3
Illus. London News 31 Aug. 183/2: The words I heard were [...] couched in the purest and raciest Houndsditch slang [...] ‘l shay, young’un, here’s a shance; fork up a bob, and I’ll put you on a lay you never know nothink of, to vin no end of monish vith the ivories, or the blacks and reds’.at monish, n.
Illus. London News 99: A pace that would have been a burster to many a fresh man.at burster, n.1
Illus. London News 13 Dec. 35/3: ‘You must know how to rokker (speak) Roumany like your uncle Euri yonder’.at rocker, v.
Illus. London News 1 May 23: ‘Ah! Nunks, you were once a young man yourself’.at nunky, n.
Illus. London News 15 June 549/1: Two white-hatted and pegtopped ineffables.at ineffable, n.
Illus. London News 3 Aug. 19/2: ‘It war the Secesh farmer’s ole cow [...] Berry excellent meat, sar!’.at secesh, n.
Illus. London News 11 Aug. 12/1: It was the cue of the Tories [...] to deal rather wanton quips and cranks [...] and ludicrous nicknames, such as ‘Stinkomalee,’ applied to [...] London University.at Stinkomalee, n.
Illus. London News 19 Aug. 201: The week at Canterbury is to crickete what Epsom, Newmarket, and Doncaster are to turfites; and a more jovial gathering cannot be imagined.at turfite, n.
Illus. London News 8 July 36: [illus.] Arms from the Prince of Wales’s Indian Collection [...] 9. Bundook or Matchlock, Central India.at bandook, n.
Illus. London News 18 Mar. 6/3: I would rather see Romeo performed by a consummate master of his art [...] than by a good-looking, smock-faced young fellow.at smock-faced, adj.
in Illus. London News 16 Dec. in Ware (1909) 194/2: This, published in an English paper, would probably be described as penny gush.at penny gush (n.) under gush, n.2
in Illus. London News 10 Mar. 235/3: One might have imagined the symposium to be more of the nature of a ‘lemon squash’ party or a ‘Botany beer’ one. Botany Beer, it has recently been decided on judicial authority, is not beer at all.at Botany beer party, n.
in Illus. London News 24 Mar. 290/1: Lord Boodle, a rapid chappie always ready to bet on everything with anybody [F&H].at chappie, n.
in Illus. London News 10 Nov. 451, col. 3: The lamented [...] once entreated the guests present to post the cole, i.e. to be prompt with their subscriptions and donations [F&H].at post (down) the cole (v.) under cole, n.
in Illus. London News 21 Apr. 379, col. 2: Fops flourished before my time, but I can remember the ‘dandy,’ who was superseded by the count, the ‘toff,’ and other varieties of the ‘swell’ [F&H].at count, n.1
in Illus. London News 28th Apr. in Ware (1909) 121/1: The term ‘Dutch Daub’ has fetched me a little. I call to mind that in almost every refreshment buffet and minor hotel bar in the Southern and Western States you come across oil-paintings of still-life.at Dutch daub (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
in Illus. London News 7 July 3/1: To be able to escape from a large public feed is, indeed, a sweet boon; but there are some big dinners at which attendance is a case of must.at feed, n.
in Illus. London News 28 April, 407, col. 2: The lovely and loving spouse of an abandoned macer, [...] to further whose villainous ends she consents to ‘nobble’ Damozel in his stable [F&H].at macer, n.
in Illus. London News 24 Nov. 499 col. 1: I light upon the London papers, containing alarming statements about a little bit of a maid-of-all-work... This marchioness down in Shrewsbury Vale has [...] been the object of the most astounding ‘manifestations’ [F&H].at marchioness, n.
Illus. London News 27 Jan. 87/1: Do you remember the old story of the lady whose husband was doomed to ‘die with his shoes on’.at die in (one’s) shoes (v.) under shoe, n.
Illus. London News 27 Jan. 87/3: To ‘tub’ for to bathe is [...] Society slang (generally and university).at tub, v.
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