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Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 42: I devote the next Quarter to what is vulgarly designated ‘pot-hooks and hangers’.at pothooks (and hangers), n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 42: I devote the next Quarter to what is vulgarly designated ‘pot-hooks and hangers’. Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 62: Fokes of little heddecation, who don’t know what is the meaning of hard crack-jaw words!at jaw-breaking, adj.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 60: A old fashion hat – Quaker cut – with a brim broad enough to hide a ‘calf’s head’.at calf’s head (n.) under calf, n.1
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 61: I wor determin’d to put up a stinger for um [...] ‘All those kiddys what don’t come to larn the new way to write, by to-morrow, dinner time, ’twill be all dick’y wee um.’.at all dicky with under dicky, adj.1
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 88: None like he, Hath filched his works so copiously!at filch, v.1
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 93: He’s forking out the cash.at fork out, v.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 84: Steal from other’s works to show His own goose-head doth something know.at goose-head, n.
Lectures on Art of Writing () 184053: Upon the ship board, wee mee legs doubled up, boggling button holes in any body’s ‘inexpressibles!!!’.at inexpressibles, n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 39: I am a Master of Arts [...] Knight of the Cane cudgel.at knight of the..., n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 39: I am a Master of Arts [...] Knight of the Cane cudgel – and Brandisher of the Birchen Towel.at oaken towel, n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 84: A motley-fool the thing I mean is, / One of the common puffing sheenies.at sheeny, n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 62: Dash my wig, if I hant kick’d up as great a shindy as the best on um ever since!at kick up a shindy (v.) under shindy, n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 57: How happy is a tailor’s life [...] ’Tis better than a barber’s life, A tinker’s, or a snob!at snob, n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 61: I wor determin’d to put up a stinger for um [...] ‘All those kiddys what don’t come to larn the new way to write, by to-morrow, dinner time, ’twill be all dick’y wee um.’.at stinger, n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 59: I’ve been obleeged [...] to stop the botheration of their tater traps, with a sort of parliamentary slang.at tater-trap (n.) under tater, n.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) in DSUE (1984).at upper apartment (n.) under upper, adj.
Lectures on Art of Writing (1840) 85: Can I stand this? no – blow my wig, I’m hungry as a starving pig!at blow my wig! (excl.) under wig, n.2
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