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Notes from ‘News’ 85: The preference of our ’Arries for making love in public, on Bank holidays [...] has lately been severely and justly commented upon.at ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
Notes from ‘News’ 85: The preference of our ’Arries for making love in public, on Bank holidays [...] has lately been severely and justly commented upon. Notes from ‘News’ 22: Some unspeakable ass will sometimes ask a popular novelist for a story gratis.at ass, n.
Notes from ‘News’ 118: If a boy is really a ‘bad lot’ his blackguardism will crop up soon enough.at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
Notes from ‘News’ 74: ‘Your novel has great merit, but’ – mere butter.at butter, n.1
Notes from ‘News’ 81: The chorister boys [...] have been getting into trouble for what in theatrical circles is called ‘gagging’ – singing things that are not in the programme.at gag, v.
Notes from ‘News’ 29: To be a popular music-hall singer, with his brougham and his chirruper, must be a most ‘golluptious’ life.at golopshus, adj.
Notes from ‘News’ 48: We must, says this two-wheeled sage, ‘not be too hot upon the bicycle at first’.at hot, adj.
Notes from ‘News’ 50: I have never been ‘hot upon bicycles’ since then.at hot for (adj.) under hot, adj.
Notes from ‘News’ 8: The fogs we have had this year have been made too much of [...] You could see something in them if you looked long enough, which is not the case of a genuine Peasouper.at peasouper, n.
Notes from ‘News’ 28: Many a man, objects to being called a ‘scaly varmint’ by the driver of his hansom.at scaly, adj.
Notes from ‘News’ 166: Of course, ‘Greek Wit’ is not always of this side-splitting description.at side-splitting, adj.
Notes from ‘News’ 73: What ‘stumps’ them is the being asked to put their own thoughts regarding any familiar matter into words.at stumped, adj.
Notes from ‘News’ 169: Flogging, or, as it is called at Eton, ‘swishing,’ is to be abolished.at swish, v.1
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