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Observer No. 27 n.p.: He’s pigeon’d and undone [F&H].at pigeon, v.1
Observer No. 27 n.p.: He’s pigeon’d and undone [F&H]. Observer 4 Dec. 2: Every sagacious mother fits the mitre or the mace to her darling booby.at booby, n.1
Observer 4 Dec. 2: The flocks of chicken prostitutes which he observed before Somerset House.at chicken, n.
Observer 4 Dec. 3: Why, d--- me, almost the whole of his property is a Coal mine.at damn, v.
Observer 4 Dec. 3: The proposal produced a universal laugh, but his Activity persisted in his bet, and was at length taken up by a Flat, who swore he knew better.at flat, n.2
Observer 4 Dec. 3: Why do not the Patriotic Duke, the Noble Tar, or the American Wanderer, look to this necessary Newspaper Explanation?at tar, n.1
Observer 11 Oct. 2: This †mushroom of fashion, whenever he came, / Seem’d to me to display much more dunghill than game † This vegetable, from generally springing up where refuse has been thrown [...] implies an upstart.at dunghill, n.1
Observer 11 Oct. 2: This †mushroom of fashion, whenever he came, / Seem’d to me to display much more dunghill than game † This vegetable, from generally springing up where refuse has been thrown [...] implies an upstart.at mushroom, n.
Observer (London) 21 Mar. 4/1: He says he’s out of condition. This may be a ‘throw-off’.at throw-off, n.
Observer 19 Sept. 2: The well known slang offence called smashing, i.e. passing counterfeit money.at smash, v.2
Observer 26 May 2: He was soon surrounded, and on being properly stalled up and felt [...] the cash [...] was transferred to the basket man, so called from his being the receiver of the swag [...] and safely deposited.at basket man (n.) under basket, n.1
Observer 26 May 2: The fight was taken clean out of him [and] he was finally carried off to the bellows-mender.at bellows to mend under bellows, n.
Observer 26 May 2: His bird’s eye blue fogle round his neck.at bird’s eye fogle, n.
Observer 26 May 2: Flash and slang of course predominated among the genuine Coves [...] the poor ‘Yokels’ were horror struck at the depraved expressions.at cove, n.
Observer 26 May 2: [of pickpockets] The ‘family’ was again at work, gleaning whatever might be left in the pockets of the throng.at family, n.1
Observer 26 May 2: Not a few ‘family men’ [...] hastened down [to a prizefight] to avail themselves of their professional talents in transferring [...] the propertry of the assembled multitude from the pockets of the right owners to their own.at family man (n.) under family, n.1
Observer 26 May 2: He was soon surrounded, and on being properly stalled up and felt [...] the cash [...] was transferred to the basket man, so called from his being the receiver of the swag [...] and safely deposited.at stall up (v.) under stall, v.2
Observer 26 May 2: The umpires called out to Belcher [following a foul], and told him, ‘It was a stand-up fight’ and Neat must take care what he was about’.at stand-up, adj.
Observer 26 May 2: He was in fact a tip-topsman, and looked more like a Corinthian than a commoner.at tip-topper, n.
Observer (London) 29 Nov. 4/2: The presence of these men was permitted by the flash beaks of the country.at flash beak (n.) under flash, adj.
Observer (London) 29 Nov. 4/2: We did not notice any one quite so celebrious as Guy Earl of Warwick himself [...] There were ‘Guys’ enough to astonish the natives and to puzzle the vulgar.at guy, n.1
Observer (London) 29 Nov. 4/2: In addition to the Knights of the Mawley themselves, about five-and-twenty regular constables were on the spot.at ...the mawley under knight of the..., n.
Observer (London) 29 Nov. 4/3: Copious draughts of daffy, with occasional flashes of Gallic lightning.at flash of lightning (n.) under lightning, n.
Observer (London) 29 Nov. 4/3: Josh received the office to go forth.at office, n.
Observer (London) 29 Nov. 4/2: Dick [...] repeated [...] his determination to give his Sheeney anatagonist [i.e. Jewish boxer Barney Aaron] a full dose of pepper.at sheeny, adj.
Observer (London) 29 Nov. 4/3: He wore a Whitehall upperBen [...] and a white castor.at upper benjamin (n.) under upper, adj.
Observer 30 Oct. 3: He [a wretsler] would kick Cann all to rags within five minutes.at kick all to rags (sfx) under kick, v.1
Observer 28 Aug. 3: Witness knew this was the slang name for a watch, and asked [...] whether it was a silver thimble or a gold one.at thimble, n.
Observer (London) 13 Mar. 3/2: Sir R. Peel was a crib-biter, who did not gulp down arguments, but nibbled them.at crib-biter, n.
Observer 14 Jan. 3/5: ‘Vell, may I be spiflicated,’ exclaimed the matser chimney sweep.at spiflicated, adj.
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