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‘The Good Old Times’ in Matthews Cockney Past and Present 85: Vot they vonce call’d a vaggon is now called a fly.at fly, n.1
‘The Good Old Times’ in Matthews Cockney Past and Present 85: Vot they vonce call’d a vaggon is now called a fly. Cockney Adventures in Matthews Cockney Past and Present (1938) 48: So ven he com’d and told me on it, says I, ‘Bill, vy you’ve been done.’ – ‘That be d—d,’ says he; ‘I’ll swear it,’ says I; ‘Walker,’ says he, but another of our party told him the same, and then he began to think as it vos true.at walker!, excl.
My Sister Kate in Matthews Cockney Past and Present 50: [She] used to go out with one of them long sticks of sealing wax — them life-guards.at long streak of piss (n.) under streak, n.
Past and Present (1897) Pt II 63: A blustering, dissipated human figure with a kind of blackguard quality [...] talking noisy nonsense.at blackguard, n.
Past and Present (1897) Pt II 63: A blustering, dissipated human figure [...] talking noisy nonsense; – tearing out the bowels of St. Edmundsbury Convent (its larders namely and cellars) [...] by living at rack and manger there.at lie at rack and manger (v.) under lie, v.1
in Cockney Past and Present (1938) 57: A werry tidy pull for coves with a bit of money to lay out.at pull, n.
(ref. to mid-19C) Cockney Past and Present 84: Colonel Newcome’s disgust at the song which he heard at one of these Caves of Harmony [i.e. the Coal Hole or Cider Cellars] must have been well justified.at Cave of Harmony, n.
Cockney Past and Present 83: One of the most popular of Victorian halls, the Middlesex Music-Hall (now The Winter Garden Theatre) derived its nickname ‘The Old Mo’ from the name of the original rooms, The Great Mogul.at Old Mo (n.) under old, adj.
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