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Places and People 292: ‘Besting,’ we learn, is a playful term for gaining an unfair advantage, and applies to the three-card trick, to skittle-sharping, to fraudulent tossing, and to larceny.at best, v.
Places and People 292: ‘Besting,’ we learn, is a playful term for gaining an unfair advantage, and applies to the three-card trick, to skittle-sharping, to fraudulent tossing, and to larceny. Places and People 23: A few minute’s delay, during which booby is gruffly and fruitlessly recommended to ‘give up blathering, as that won’t give him his money back’.at booby, n.1
Places and People 91: White-faced, staggering boozers, whose crumpled dirty looks tells one pretty plain they’ve had a stiff night’s drinking bout.at boozer, n.
Places and People 215: He was always about Grosvenor and Berkeley squares, and held horses, opened cabs, and did a little cadging when the opportunity presented itself.at cadging, n.
Places and People 92: They often walk in couples and even threes, too, smilin’ and chin-waggin’.at chinwag, v.
Places and People 219: The whole occupants of the ward could not produce that sum, and old Daddy—they are all called Daddies—said, ‘Well, I nivver seed anything like it!’.at daddy, n.
Places and People 30: They treat ’em shameful, just because they’re darkies.at darkie, n.
Places and People 228: He had come out of that jail from ‘doing’ nine months.at do, v.1
Places and People 20: I know them Chinamen well [...] they’ll beg, and duff, and dodge about the West-end.at duff, v.1
Places and People 106: There’s a vulgar song you may ’ave heard about the streets, ‘Not for Joseph;’ and I say, ‘Not for Joseph, never no more, at the savin’ game’.at not for Joe under joe, n.1
Places and People 30: He’ll lay like that for hours. Look! he’s wakin’ up now to light his pipe again.at pipe, n.1
Places and People 284: The words ‘house or place’ could not apply to ‘the Ruins;’ and the public and authorities seemed to concur that bets could be booked, and lists kept, and fools swindled [...] in defiance of the law.at Ruins, the, n.
Places and People 228: Under the walls of Ilford jail [...] Dick called back to memory how he had come out of that jail from ‘doing’ nine months [...] and the lenient way in which the ‘screws’ treated him.at screw, n.1
Places and People 222: This figure was clothed in carpet. [...] It had a notice under it, that any person tearing up clothes in Billericay workhouse would be provided with a suit of the above description, [...] it had the desired effect, and the guardians were rarely troubled by a ‘tear-up.’.at tear-up, n.2
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