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[UK] H. Mayhew Comic Almanack 37: She will [...] wait for the next bankruptcy rather than visit some house where honest prices prevent clap-trap trickery.
at clap-trap, n.1
[UK] H. Mayhew Comic Almanack 29: Beer from the homely pewter, / To ‘gents’ I leave with scorn.
at gent, n.1
[UK] H. Mayhew Comic Almanack 56: Our ‘pet pickpocket’ had been telling the little fellow of the fun it was to go ‘sawney hunting,’ which I afterwards learnt was stealing pieces of bacon from shop doors.
at sawney-hunting (n.) under sawney, n.2
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