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Letters from the Big House 57: ‘That’s alls-bay,’ interrupted Limpy Joe.at allsbay, n.
Letters from the Big House 57: ‘That’s alls-bay,’ interrupted Limpy Joe. Letters from the Big House 57: ‘Dicker Maloney,’ recommenced Harry in haste. ‘Dicker. An alphonse, a candle-sconce, a diddly-donce, of the first water.’.at alphonse, n.2
Letters from the Big House 59: Done ’is cock-and-hen.at cock and hen, n.
Letters from the Big House 57: ‘Dicker Maloney,’ recommenced Harry in haste. ‘Dicker. An alphonse, a candle-sconce, a diddly-donce, of the first water.’.at candle (and) sconce, n.
Letters from the Big House 75: A ‘smash artist,’ or what the press would describe as a motor bandit.at -artist, sfx
Letters from the Big House 38: He don’t think he ain’t never coming in stir, oh no. No one don’t. Especial balmies.at balmy, n.
Letters from the Big House 37: The balmy’s in ‘M’ Hall in them days.at balmy, n.
Letters from the Big House 144: ’E says as ’is china bust a two-handful kite, Scotch jug, flutes the bogeys cause the jumper ses the moniker’s bent. Slung ’em the madam, an’ copped.at bent, adj.
Letters from the Big House 36: I’m sitting in my flowery arter a No Grounds. Black! Black as a lifer on his first Sunday.at black, adj.
Letters from the Big House 60: Hey, Brum.at Brum, n.
Letters from the Big House 35: I ain’t next flowery to Ginger no more. This is the chokey. [Ibid.] 37: I’m in a chokey flowery.at chokey, n.
Letters from the Big House 36: If you sneaked a spud for them, like as not you got chokied.at chokey, v.
Letters from the Big House 36: Funny though, waiting for a chuck-up, fourteen stretch ago, and now still here.at chuck up, v.2
Letters from the Big House 36: He won’t half cop it.at cop it, v.
Letters from the Big House 80: He’s coppin’ off Minnie all the time as well!at cop off, v.3
Letters from the Big House 149: Rothschild was boasting of having ‘coshed’ him.at cosh, v.
Letters from the Big House 144: ’E says as ’is china bust a two-handful kite, Scotch jug, flutes the bogeys cause the jumper ses the moniker’s bent. Slung ’em the madam, an’ copped.at counter-jumper, n.
Letters from the Big House 144: Ole Rots don’t slip no Daily Mail.at daily (mail), n.
Letters from the Big House 35: Ginger’s still there, in the next flowery.at flowery (dell), n.
Letters from the Big House 160: Feeling a bit dicky, eh!at dicky, adj.1
Letters from the Big House 57: Anyway ’e’s on the hook [...] Makes engravin’-plates, for Dicker. Turnin’ orf tenners and fifties like fag-papers.at fag-paper (n.) under fag, n.3
Letters from the Big House 144: ’E says as ’is china bust a two-handful kite, Scotch jug, flutes the bogeys cause the jumper ses the moniker’s bent. Slung ’em the madam, an’ copped.at flute, v.1
Letters from the Big House 85: Gaygirl. On the pickup.at gay girl (n.) under gay, adj.
Letters from the Big House 13: Lem promptly produced the stock. ‘Sorry, guv.’.at gov, n.
Letters from the Big House 20: Grass is jail-jargon for informer [...] Copper is colloquial for policeman; grass-hopper is rhyming-slang for copper; grass is the abbreviation.at grass, n.3
Letters from the Big House 28: He’ll be too fed up to go any real grassing.at grass, v.2
Letters from the Big House 20: Copper is colloquial for policeman; grass-hopper is rhyming-slang for copper.at grasshopper, n.2
Letters from the Big House 39: Can see the bastard grinning now, cause I was being such a lovely little greeney.at greeney, n.
Letters from the Big House 144: ’E says as ’is china bust a two-handful kite, Scotch jug, flutes the bogeys cause the jumper ses the moniker’s bent. Slung ’em the madam, an’ copped.at handful, n.
Letters from the Big House 14: The talk of the ‘heads’ who had friends and contacts in many lands.at head, n.
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