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Mons. Merlin 23 May 4/2: Come, take another pull at the keg, to clear your head-lights.at headlight, n.
Mons. Merlin 23 May 4/2: Come, take another pull at the keg, to clear your head-lights. Mons. Merlin 23 May 4/2: Are your senses playing bo-peep with the ghost of some pigeon-livered coast captain, eh?at pigeon-livered (adj.) under pigeon, n.1
Mons. Merlin 13 Oct. 4: Cowley [...] appeared on a warrant charging him with threatening to do for Jemmy Jackson .at do, v.1
Mons. Merlin 13 Oct. 4: He had [...] on different occasions, threatened to sew him up, or do him some grievous bodily harm.at sew up, v.
Mons. Merlin 6 July 4/5: ‘Is there naething, Jamie, that bothers you at a’?’ ‘Ou ay,’ said the idiot [...] ‘there’s a muckle Bubbly Jock that follows me wherever I gang’.at bubbly jock, n.
Mons. Merlin 18 Jan. 3/1: When, however, we find him called an ‘anointed scoundrel’, a ‘hoary robber’, and such like [...] we cannot think there is much apology for what he s\ays.at anointed, adj.
Mons. Merlin 18 Apr. 4/1: ‘Hoff your started to call a coach, then chiveyed hout with more fissik, no ope o’ sitting down to your vittles’.at chivey, v.
Mons. Merlin 9 Oct. 3/2: Mr Townsend [...] lveelled a fowling-piece loaded with small shot [...] pulling the trigger [...] The apple-prigger [...] scampered over the wall.at prigger, n.1
Mons. Merlin 9 Oct. 3/2: Let him and his gang beware! To be ‘winged’ with a bag of stolen property on the shoulder, must be more awkward than plesant.at wing, v.
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Should he [drink] to excess, he does not become, like ordinary mortals, intoxicated, but ‘fresh;’ he may advance to ‘boskiness,’ or get ‘tight screwed’.at boskiness, n.
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Numismatics seem to afford an unbounded range for the exercise of slang [...] ‘Brass’ is another metallic misnomer.at brass, n.1
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: The fast man [...] is never cheated, but [...] though he does not care to confess it, occasionally ‘done brown’.at do brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Numismatics seem to afford an unbounded range for the exercise of slang [...] on what grounds have half-crowns and copper money the cognomen of ‘half-bull’ and ‘brown’ assigned to them respectively ?at half-a-bull (n.) under bull, n.3
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: The fast man [...] is never cheated, but sometimes ‘choused’.at chouse, v.
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Should he [drink] to excess [...] the next morning finds him ‘fishy’ or ‘fowsty about the gills’.at fishy, adj.1
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Should he [drink] to excess, he does not become, like ordinary mortals, intoxicated, but ‘fresh;’ he may advance to ‘boskiness,’ or get ‘tight screwed’.at fresh, adj.1
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: A crowded ball-room a ‘first-rate,’ ‘tip-top,’ ‘no-mistake,’ ‘stow-aIl-gammon,’ kind of ‘turn-out’ in a word (and that the chief in the vocabulary) quite the Stilton.at stow-all-gammon (adj.) under gammon, n.2
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/1: Detailing his previous night’s adventures, one says he ‘went the entire animal.’ He didn’t; he went to Evans’s.at go the whole animal (v.) under go the whole..., v.
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Numismatics seem to afford an unbounded range for the exercise of slang [...] Why should shillings be universally baptised ‘Roberts?’—and four-penny pieces ‘Joeys?’—or six-pences indiscriminately christened by the female title of ‘Tizzy?’.at robert, n.
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/1: One says he ‘went the entire animal.’ He didn’t; he went to Evans’s. The other says he had a ‘shine’ in the Haymarket (which would be true if ‘a shine’ meant a good sound drubbing. But it doesn’t).at shine, n.2
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Numismatics seem to afford an unbounded range for the exercise of slang [...] if he receives it [i.e. money], he ‘sweeps up the dibs,’ or ‘pockets the swag,’ or ‘stows away the rowdies;’ to either of which substantives I believe it impossible to assign an etymology or a meaning.at swag, n.1
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Should he [drink] to excess, he does not become, like ordinary mortals, intoxicated, but ‘fresh;’ he may advance to ‘boskiness,’ or get ‘tight screwed’.at tight, adj.
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: Numismatics seem to afford an unbounded range for the exercise of slang [...] Why should shillings be universally baptised ‘Roberts?’—[...] or six-pences indiscriminately christened by the female title of ‘Tizzy?’.at tizzy, n.1
Mons. Merlin 18 Oct. 6/2: My great coat I invariably designate as such. and never personify it as an ‘upper Benjamin’.at upper benjamin (n.) under upper, adj.
Mons. Merlin 28 July 6/2: [from London Rev.] ‘Piccadilly weepers don’t fetch me at all,’ said an artless young thing at a ball not long ago, meaning to express her dislike to the long whiskers of her vis-a-vis.at Piccadilly weepers (n.) under Piccadilly, adj.1
quoted in Mons. Merlin 13 Nov. 6/3: Poor Tom, sir, did all he knew to get a little bit of paper done, but couldn’t bring it off, and now he’s gone a cracker over head and ears, and must bolt or pay up.at paper, n.
Mons. Merlin 21 Mar. 7/2: ‘I was at an awfully nice dinner party last night,’ says one. ‘You should see the new farce,’ says another, ‘it is screamingly funny’.at screamingly, adv.
Mons. Merlin 21 Mar. 7/2: A young lady accepting a bouquet from an admirer graciously acknowledges the gift with the words, ‘Oh, thank you so much. Ta! awfully ta!’.at ta!, excl.
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