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(con. 1920) Pedlocks (1971) 273: ‘Drunk as a pissant,’ said Tinker Evens proudly.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
(con. 1920) Pedlocks (1971) 273: ‘Drunk as a pissant,’ said Tinker Evens proudly. (con. 1880s) Pedlocks (1971) 91: Condon waved to them. ‘Big Copper Combine muck-a-mucks,’ he told Louis.at muck-a-muck, n.
(con. 1940s) Pedlocks (1971) 380: I don’t shive a git about the high-nosed brass.at not give a shit, v.
(con. 1910s) Pedlocks (1971) 210: He was proud of her there in that cellar dive among all the fancy allrightniks.at allrightnik, n.
(con. 1940s) Pedlocks (1971) 381: Care for a bit of slap and tickle?at slap and tickle, n.2
(con. 1870s) Pedlocks (1971) 65: She sang and she shouted and danced o’er the plain / And showed her bare ass to the whole waggon train!at ass, n.
(con. 1860s) Pedlocks (1971) 29: Oh, my sainted aunt.at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
(con. c.1926) Pedlocks (1971) 301: The man had become what the middle-class intellectual with his button-down, soft, shirt collar from Brooks Brothers called ‘a Babbitt’.at babbitt, n.
(con. 1910s) Pedlocks (1971) 234: Shoot me! Can I help it if I love an upholstered behind?at behind, n.
(con. 1910s) Pedlocks (1971) 4: Some of the ladies [...] show their belly-buttons.at belly button (n.) under belly, n.
(con. 1900s) Pedlocks (1971) 160: Bet your bottom ace on that.at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
(con. 1860s) Pedlocks (1971) 29: I remember when Queen Victoria accepted chloroform for the delivery of her seventh child, Prince Leopold, in 1853. How the Church and the blue-noses screamed.at bluenose, n.1
(con. 1900s) Pedlocks (1971) 133: I was rather a feather in their bog-trotting cap.at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
(con. 1930s) Pedlocks (1971) 345: Keep away from the town chippies. Marry, young man, marry. Better to marry than to burn.at burn, v.
(con. 1880s) Pedlocks (1971) 77: I’m an old man now [...] pottering around with rancid children in some river-front slum, running a Cheap John clinic.at cheap-john, adj.
(con. 1910s) Pedlocks (1971) 217: Don’t chew at me, Bella. Get dressed.at chew, v.
(con. 1880s) Pedlocks (1971) 77: And if he whips up the horses tell him I’ll chew his nose off, in public.at chew someone’s ear, v.
(con. 1910s) Pedlocks (1971) 245: Oh, the chutzpah – the nerve – of wedding guests!at chutzpah, n.
(con. 1924) Pedlocks (1971) 296: Fine boy. A real man. I hope he didn’t get clapped up.at clapped, adj.
(con. 1920) Pedlocks (1971) 280: Stinky went back to school with a hamper of food and some folding money.at folding, n.
(con. 1870s) Pedlocks (1971) 56: The biggest g.d. engine in the West.at G.D., adj.
Pedlocks (1971) 393: ‘Let ’er go,’ said Joey.at let her go (Gallagher), v.
(con. 1870s) Pedlocks (1971) 69: He had rolled the little gow hop pill of opium, cooked it on the end of a pin over the little ken-ten lamp made of a sardine tin.at gow, n.1
(con. 1860s) Pedlocks (1971) 111: Pontdue is bringing in bad hombres, gun tossers, and we’re having trouble getting men to work for us.at gun-tosser (n.) under gun, n.1
(con. 1880s) Pedlocks (1971) 89: We’ll get a box at the Comique, then go get our ashes hauled.at get one’s ashes hauled (v.) under haul, v.
Pedlocks (1971) 89: We’ll get a box at the Comique, then go get our ashes hauled. [...] Never had an Indian girl myself.at haul one’s ashes (v.) under haul, v.
(con. 1920s) Pedlocks (1971) 300: I was bossin’ a brick crew by the time most of you punks was histin’ dough outa your ole man for college capers.at heist, v.
Pedlocks (1971) 392: Sol Kramer is a better man than I am. Deep thinker. Has all the facts and a sense of humour. A real hep guy.at hep, adj.
(con. 1940s) Pedlocks (1971) 380: I don’t shive a git about the high-nosed brass.at high-nosed, adj.
(ref. to 1860s) Pedlocks (1971) 31: Joseph got a smiling pleasure out of seeing these high yellows walking in their thin, faded print frocks.at high yellow, n.
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