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Freeman’s Jrnl 22 Jan. 2/2: Whom should they prefer to see in Parliament — such men [...] as Lord Fandangle, or Sir John Balderdash.at fandangle, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 22 Jan. 2/2: Whom should they prefer to see in Parliament — such men [...] as Lord Fandangle, or Sir John Balderdash. Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 20 Nov. 4/1: They [...] observe what forty years instruction has done for avowedly unthinking, maggot-brained people.at maggot-brained (adj.) under maggot, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 8 Sept. 4/3: The quack long’s rubbing mixture seems to have been a panacea — [...] ringworm, gout, mulligrubs, blue devils — it cured all.at mulligrubs, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 10 Apr. 2/3: But what have I / Or you to do with ropes or neckweed here.at neckweed (n.) under neck, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 28 July 3/4: A friend advised him to shuffle off this mortal coil [...] by blowing out his brains.at shuffle (off) (this/one’s mortal coil) (v.) under shuffle, v.
Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 9 June 3/1: Papists and swaddlers [...] A complaint against two persons [...] whose exterior bespoke them to be of the sect of Primitive Wesleyans.at swaddler, n.1
Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 7 Sept. 3/2: I called him a bloody ould robber, and I’d call yer honur the same if ye wur there, bekase I was tossicated.at tossicated, adj.
Freeman’s Jrnl 25 Jan. 3/2: The possesion of which he kindly availed himself [...] by treating the proprietors to a marine execution, a leaden pill, or a hemp blister.at leaden pill, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 10 Oct. 3/4: A mutton-faced young Esculapian showed his progress in chemistry.at mutton-faced (adj.) under mutton, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 10 Dec. 3/2: He was unrivalled as a Protestant juror, and could always be relied on as a ‘boot-eater’ in the cause.at boot-eater (n.) under boot, n.2
Freeman’s Jrnl 22 May 3/4: The tuft-hunting is a large tribe [...] extending through all political denominations.at tuft-hunting, adj.
Freeman’s Jrnl 26 July 4/4: They had gained a moral Waterloo; were they to be fooled out of their victory by a mouthful of moonshine.at mouthful of moonshine (n.) under moonshine, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 21 Sept. 1/5: I drives a cab, that is, I ‘bucks’ for the regular drivers ven they goes for to take a snooze for an hour or so.at buck, n.2
Freeman’s Jrnl 17 June 2/3: No wonder the Times should wax wrathful, and dencounce the —‘short-sighted, pigeon-livered Conservative’.at pigeon-livered (adj.) under pigeon, n.1
Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 22 Dec. 2/3: The prisoner carroll and other boys [...] were next door, before that, looking for ‘socket money’ where a couple had been married .at socket-money (n.) under socket, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 22 May 3/4: A little girl called me a tub of guts in the street and I ran after her to chastise her.at tub of guts (n.) under tub, n.1
Freeman’s Jrnl 26 Oct. 3/5: Prisoner— Not a bit drunk, your honour, any more than I am now (He was now regularly obfusticated). I’m not a bit drunk.at obfusticated, adj.
Freeman’s Jrnl 12 Sept. 4/2: Each good man and true insisting upon his vested rights to a glass of the right sort.at right sort, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 22 Jan. 3/3: The defendant, tall, boney, gaunt and grim, with a swivel-eye adapted to see round a corner.at swivel-eye, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 25 Sept. 3/3: [He] wished Murphy and his countrymen were the other side of the water.at Murphy, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 25 Sept. 3/3: [He] wished Murphy and his countrymen were the other side of the water.at water, the, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 14 Feb. 2/1: Four ‘institutions,’ designated ‘shin-plaster banks,’ had been destroyed by the mob.at shinplaster (adj.) under shin, n.3
Freeman’s Jrnl 20 Jan. 1/6: A carman, named Partick Doyle, [...] charged a brother of the whip [...] with having assaulted him.at brother (of the) whip (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 7 Oct. 2/3: Your hen-headed people assume a wrong position.at hen-headed (adj.) under hen, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 3 Jan. 3/2: A fat, mutton-faced boy, named Simon M’Gowan.at mutton-faced (adj.) under mutton, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 2 Dec. 2/2: Whether the Premier be again disposed to array himself in the cast garments of Whiggery, or strip a peg himself in the warerooms of Bright, Cobden, and Co.at strip a peg (in Plunket Street) (v.) under strip, v.
Freemans Jrnl (Dublin) 6 Dec. 2/4: That is too respectable for even Castle Catholics—it must be reserved for the true blues.at Castle Catholic (n.) under Castle, adj.
Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 17 Feb. 3/1: The Austrians woiuld make small bones of blowing Venice into the sea, if they could do so.at make small bones (of) (v.) under small bones, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl (Ireland) 3 Aug. 2/4: It is his lordship’s custom to gather all the little children together every year, and stuff them with Newry ‘swipes’.at swipes, n.
Freeman’s Jrnl 16 Feb. 4/5: This is called standing pad with a fakement. It is a wet weather dodge, and isn’t so good as screeving.at fakement, n.
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