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Bucks Herald 15 Feb. 4/5: On Saturday an inquest was held [...] on the body of Edward Stokes, a miserable bone-picker.at bone-picker (n.) under bone, n.1
Bucks Herald 15 Feb. 4/5: On Saturday an inquest was held [...] on the body of Edward Stokes, a miserable bone-picker. Bucks Herald 3 Sept. 2/1: It has been proposed to erect / A statue to each of the three / [...] / A spouter is famed Harry B,; / While Ady writes letters by dozens.at spouter, n.1
Bucks Herald 3 Sept. 2/1: It has been proposed to erect / A statue to each of the three / [...] / Some voted for Stinkomalee.at Stinkomalee, n.
Bucks Herald 26 Jan. 4/5: The spectators around them were thick as flies on a lump of sugar.at ...flies under thick as..., adj.
Bucks Herald 2 Feb. 4/2: 'A literary prig,' 'a filcher,' etc. and we are supposed to have copied the article in question, 'from a fellow feeling that is said to exist among theives'.at filcher, n.
Bucks Herald 11 Sept. 7/4: Uncle Foozle Dissenting Again. That queer old gentleman, the Duke of Sussex [etc.].at foozle, n.
Bucks. Herald 4 Mar. 6/5: If this isn’t a practical bull / ‘Betty Martin,’ it is ‘and my eye’.at bull, n.2
Bucks. Herald 4 Mar. 6/5: There was Coroners, Lawyers, and Brewers, / [...] /A Quack Doctor and Birmingham Jew! / There were Knights of all orders and grades; / And a Knight too, of Industry.at ...(the) industry under knight of the..., n.
Bucks Herald 7 Dec. 4/1: One of the relieving officers of the Aylesbury union complained against one James Cooper [etc.].at Union, the, n.
Bucks Herald 29 May 3/4: You [...] pining, lolling, screwed-up, wasp-waisted, doll-dressed, putty-faced [...] daughters.at putty-brained (adj.) under putty, n.
Bucks Herald 9 Aug. 6/5: Their hats would have dwindled down to the size of a charity boy’s muffin-cap .at muffin, n.1
Bucks Herald 2 Jan. 5/6: Certainly he did look a little white about the gills when my hon, opponent delcared himself for [etc.].at white about/around/in/round the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
Bucks Herald 21 Aug. 5/3: This Ninevah sand-groper said, referring to the Cawnpore massacre, ‘possibly we had done something to justify that deed of hell’.at sand-groper, n.
Bucks Herald 26 Nov. 3/3: In the terrible fog of last week, Viscount Williams [...] ran bang up against a pump.at bang, adv.
Bucks Herald 24 May 5/3: The Whittingdon Club [...] has degenerated into what is vulgarly called a ‘Cock-and-Hen Club’.at cock-and-hen club (n.) under cock, n.3
Bucks Herald 24 Oct. 4/6: He styles the knock-kneed, wall-eyed, old horse he drives ‘a rare old crock’.at crock, n.2
Bucks Herald 24 Oct. 4/6: He calls a Hansom a ‘shofle,’ and his own vehicle is known as a ‘growler’.at growler, n.2
Bucks Herald 24 Oct. 4/6: He calls a Hansom a ‘shofle,’ and his own vehicle is known as a ‘growler’.at shoful, n.
Bucks Herald 24 Oct. 4/6: He calls a bloater a ‘two-eyed steak‘ [...] and prides himself upon his insolence.at two-eyed steak (n.) under two, adj.
Bucks Herald 21 May 5/3: The only person who grieves is the Jewish matron who imports Circassian pomades and eyebrow revivers, and makes the ugliest crumpet-face discoverable ‘beautiful for ever’.at crumpet-face (n.) under crumpet, n.
Bucks Herald 11 Jan. 4/1: Jonnick - liberal, kind, hospitable; I went to see him and he was quite Jonnick.at jannock, adj.
Bucks Herald 11 Dec. 4/2: A ‘Cracky’ Premier [...] Our Premier is what men colloquially call rather ‘cracky!’ [...] The crackiness of our present Premier is of a more dangerous kind [...] upsetting everything in our constiution.at cracky, adj.
Bucks Herald 13 Nov. 3/1: The dress of a Northampton charity boy is[...] Blue swallow-tail [...] and muffin-cap and stockings of the same hue.at muffin, n.1
Bucks Herald 1 Apr. 3/5: We have heard ministers, who thought they had said a good thing in their sermon, tell their audience to ‘stick a pin there,’ or to ‘put that in their pipes and smoke it’.at stick a pin (in) there! (excl.) under stick, v.
Bucks Herald 3 Feb. 4/2: Here lies the cobbler, George Odger, / In politics an Artful Dodger, / [...] / Yet we in kindness do forgive him, / If old ‘Clootie’ will but take him.at old clootie (n.) under old, adj.
Bucks Herald 24 Aug. 5/3: I heard several calling complainant ‘scowbanker’.at scowbanker, n.
Bucks Herald 5 May 8/4: James Alford, alias ‘Flash Harry,’ who escaped from Kirkdale Gaol yesterday, was arrested today.at flash harry (n.) under flash, adj.
Bucks. Herald 31 Aug. 7/1: On a Fair Taradiddler. You swear your tresses are home-grown! What good to cover your false-hair with a falsehood?at tarradiddler (n.) under taradiddle, n.
Bucks Herald 8 Oct. 6/1: Defendant said, ‘None of your lip,’ and [...] Defendant then hit the boy.at less lip under lip, n.1
Bucks Herald 24 Sept. 8/3: Horns were blown, cat-calls introduced, crackers and squibs let off, and a ‘stink-pot’ made of materials of most lamentable and vile smell, was set fire to.at stinkpot, n.
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