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[UK] Spirit of Public Journals (1799) I 146: [Kentish man says] Dang me, if I sometimes know how to answer them.
at dang, v.
[UK] in Spirit of Public Journals IV 232: By Dane, Saxon, or Pict We had never been lick’d Had we stuck to the king of the island .
at lick, v.1
[UK] in Spirit of Public Journals IV 61: To see our young lords and our young gentlemen ‘cutting a swell’, as the fashionable phrase is .
at cut a swell (v.) under swell, n.1
[UK] in Spirit of Public Journals VI. 197: At length it was announced, that Pic-Nic, like Quoz, which was chalked some years ago on windows and doors, really meant nothing .
at quoz!, excl.
[UK] in Spirit of Public Journals IX 312: Damned the hawbuck who quizzed us, and agreed to cross the fields towards Newington .
at hawbuck, n.
[UK] in Spirit of Public Journals (1809) XII 305: I often wish you had been with us, though we do quiz you for a reading muz .
at muz, n.
[UK] Spirit of Public Journals (1810) XIII 163: Harry Helter was resolved not to be outdone by Dick Daredevil, who sported a brace of flamers (wenches) on his coach-box at Brighton.
at flamer, n.1
[UK] Spirit of Public Journals (1825) 63: It appears that George Charteris [...] had been ‘doing’ the green, and taking in the ‘deep ones’, quite in the gull-catching style, for a considerable period .
at green, n.1
[UK] in Spirit of Public Journals (1825) 347: They’ve served me pretty tidy going along, [...] punching at me with their shilaleaghs as they would at a woolsack .
at tidy, adv.
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