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The ’Arry Ballads choose

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[UK] Punch XXXVI 82: The affair is decidedly fishy. However somebody must have the place, and so our friend Sam Warren takes the mastership, resigning his seat.
at fishy, adj.2
[UK] Punch 24 July I 15: Kick that beggar out!
at beggar, n.
[UK] Punch 17 July I 7: The chaff predominates — (munch) — not bene by any means.
at bene, adj.
[UK] Punch I 131/2: They need not wait for the Recorder's black cap and a black Monday morning — the Sadler's Wells people hang every night with great success.
at black Monday (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Punch 31 July I l I 26: Took up a couple of young black-legs, whom I detected playing at chuck-farthing on Saffron-hill.
at blackleg, n.1
[UK] Punch 17 July 4: Tom swells the briny with tears.
at briny, n.
[UK] Punch 24 July 18: Doesn’t my nose glow like coral — arn’t my chops radiant as a rainbow.
at chops, n.1
[UK] Punch I 4/1: [...] the Albert continuations at one pound one, they appear to be made to measure for the same [F&H].
at continuations, n.
[UK] Punch I 244: Oh blow your physiology! [...] You mean to say you’ve got a hot copper – so have I. Send for the precious balm and then fire away.
at hot coppers, n.
[UK] Punch I 177: Cribbing his answers from a tiny manual of knowledge, two inches by one-and-a-half in size, which he hides under his barrel-droppings, candle-ends.
at crib, v.2
[UK] Punch I 185: He has with prudent forethought stuffed his cribs inside his double-breasted waistcoat.
at crib, n.3
[UK] Punch 133/1: Defining that zero of fortune to stand below which constitutes a detrimental [F&H].
at detrimental, n.
[UK] Punch I 60/2: Draw it mild! as the boy with the decayed tooth said to the dentist.
at draw it mild!, excl.
[UK] Punch I 105: I shall do the liberal in the way of terms, and get up the gag properly [F&H].
at gag, n.
[UK] Punch I 69: Men with ‘swallows’ like Thames tunnels, in fact accomplished gaggers and unrivalled ‘wiry watchers’ [F&H].
at gagger, n.1
[UK] Punch 31 July I 28: Go it, ye cripples!
at go it!, excl.
[UK] Punch 24 July I 17: It’s beleaved the old guv’nor can give them ten thowsand lbs. a-peace.
at guvnor, n.
[UK] Punch I 88: Only a little hanky-panky.
at hankypanky, n.
[UK] Punch 24 July I 22: They named me Puddinghead.
at pudding-head, n.
[UK] Punch 24 July I 21: A wheelbarrow of rotten eggs has been sent up to the hustings, to be used [...] by the Figsby voters, who are bent upon ‘going the whole hog’.
at go the whole hog (v.) under whole hog, n.
[UK] Punch I 17 July 4: Clare [...] Hops the twig and goes to glory in white muslin.
at hop the twig, v.
[UK] Punch I 17 July iv: John Ketch, Esq., who, from the mildness of the law, and the congenial character of modern literature with his early associations, has been induced to undertake its execution.
at Jack Ketch, n.
[UK] Punch 31 July I 28: My wife had some time gone before; / I urg’d the jarvey’s speed.
at jarvey, n.
[UK] Punch I 98/2: Displaying to the greatest advantage those unassuming castors designated jerrys .
at jerry, n.4
[UK] Punch 17 July I iii: An asylum for the thousands of orphan jokes — the superannuated Joe Millers — the millions of perishing puns, which are now wandering about.
at Joe Miller, n.
[UK] Punch 17 July I iii: Those alien Jonathans, whose adherence to the truth has forced them to emigrate from their native land.
at Jonathan, n.
[UK] Punch 24 July I 15: Kick that beggar out!
at kick out, v.1
[UK] Punch 17 July I 11: Well, lawks-a-day! things seem going on uncommon queer.
at lawks-a-mussy! (excl.) under lawks!, excl.
[UK] Punch 24 July I 22: ‘Set by Holloway’s Ointment’ — ‘a limb of the law’.
at limb of the law (n.) under limb, n.
[UK] Punch 24 July I 17: Dear Pa, I nose yew will be angxious to ear how I got on sins i left the wing of the best of feathers.
at pa, n.1
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