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Newcastle Jrnl 15 Sept. 2/5: This is paltry — worthy of the narrow mind of a tuft-hunter.at tuft-hunter, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 15 Sept. 2/5: This is paltry — worthy of the narrow mind of a tuft-hunter. Newcastle Jrnl 27 Dec. 4/1: Ye Buffer boys and varmint blades, / Vot follows up no rig’lar trades.at blade, n.
Newcastle Journal 25 July 4/3: Mr Hume was mortified at being called a catgut-scraper, though he had no claim to the tirle of a perfect Paganini.at catgut-scraper (n.) under catgut, n.1
Newcastle Jrnl 27 Dec. 4/1: He’ll floor them nosing beaks, I’m sure, / As makes cramp laws to handle the poor.at cramp, v.
Newcastle Jrnl 27 Dec. 4/1: The song sung with the greatest effect by Ikey Pig, Esq., at the Durham Hlasgow dinner.at ikey, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 20 Jan. 4/4: But no! — shabby sluberdegullions, they hadn’t the courage.at slabberdegullion, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 25 May 2/5: The hoary-headed fribble [...] will soon find that power sustained by [...] a mere knot of female Court partizans is as baseless as his own intellect.at fribble, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 1 July 4/1: The Times is now lending its valuable aid to the exposure of the ‘Count Touzery gang,’ who have, for the last three years, itinerated with goods, pretending to be custom-house seizures and the like.at touzery gang, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 11 Jan. 6/4: The Old Clo’ Trade [...] Moses Barnett, 56, a Jew was indicted [etc.].at old clo, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 4 Jan. 3/1: the term ‘fan qui’ which means literally ‘foreign devil’ [...] is not always applied to Europeans with a bad intention, [...] signifying stranger or foreigner also.at fanqui, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 19 May 6/1: We have still got the bliss / To hear ‘Peter Dick’ from each quilldriving ‘prig’.at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
Newcastle Jrnl 12 July 2/4: Each private will [...] be allowed to retain the gray wrapper, or overcoat, the property of the British Crown.at wrapper, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 30 Dec. 2/6: Perhaps your house is regularly broken into; [...] ‘Jumping a crib,’ is entrance by a window; ‘breaking a crib,’ forcing a backdoor; ‘grating a crib,’ through cellar gratings; ‘garreting a crib,’ through the roof or by an attic window.at garreting, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 2 Apr. 2/6: A fellow that marries for money is the most despicable ‘cullion’ that treads God’s earth.at cullion, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 16 May 2/5: Surprise has been expressed that Booth selected such a shallow-pated blabmouth.at blabbermouth, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 2 July 3/1: The unfortunate cripple [...] preferred a timber-toe [...] to a cork leg.at timber-toe, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 29 Jan. 3/4: The Whole-Hog Reform Demonstration [...] Mr Ernest Jones says they who are not with the whole-hog men must be against them.at whole-hog, adj.
Newcastle Jrnl 24 May 2/6: An elderly female [...] boasting of whole bouquet of gin blossoms on her venerable countenance.at gin blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Newcastle Jrnl 14 July 3/5: The Government are asleep, or mad, or bemused, or have fallen from the box.at bemused (with beer), adj.
Newcastle Jrnl 11 Dec. 3/2: We were what they call in the Army ‘mucking-in-chums’ [...] we used to share our blankets and share any parcels.at muck in, v.
Newcastle Jrnl 15 Oct. 8/1: ‘Have you seen any of our officers here this morning?’ asked a lordly knight of the quill.at ...the quill under knight of the..., n.
Newcastle Jrnl 4 Feb. 4/6: I am not prepared to palm the fighting man off with easy policies and soft words.at palm, v.
Newcastle Jrnl 23 Aug. 10/3: There is big business in the fake picture stakes.at stakes, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 23 Feb. 6/3: [headline] Alfred really was stinking rich.at stinking rich (adj.) under stinking, adv.
Newcastle Jrnl 13 Nov. 8/5: Thery [...] learned a few odd facts about such obscure things as sockdolagers.at sockdolager, n.
Newcastle Jrnl 6 Dec. 8/7: [He] is alleged to have told police he ‘had it all sussed out’.at sussed, adj.
Newcastle Jrnl 11 May 8/2: The decision was taken to set a ‘honey trap’ for the Russian - to lure him Into a compromising relationship with a woman so that he could eventually persuaded to defect.at honey-trap (n.) under honey, n.1
Newcastle Jrnl 11 May 38/7: An hour of the final day was lost to Manchester’s stair-rod morning rain.at rain (like) stair-rods (v.) under stair, n.
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