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1796

Chester Courant 17 June 1/2: Cornelius O’Crotchet’s Description of Longman and Broderip’s Music Manufactory in Cheapside, London. Having heard a great buzz about Longman and Brod’rip, / [...] / Just only to take a slight squint at their shop: / But, oh! thunder and ’ounds, / What a bodd’ring of sounds, / Echo’d thro’ the whole building. / Blood and turf! he’d look back, / One of Longman’s grand forte-pianos to hear. / [...] / And suppose we should sup where we dine, / Why, ’tis all by the way of Cheapside!

at blood and ’ounds!, excl.

1796

Chester Courant 17 June 1/2: Cornelius O’Crotchet’s Description of Longman and Broderip’s Music Manufactory in Cheapside, London. Having heard a great buzz about Longman and Brod’rip, / [...] / Just only to take a slight squint at their shop: / But, oh! thunder and ’ounds, / What a bodd’ring of sounds, / Echo’d thro’ the whole building. / Blood and turf! he’d look back, / One of Longman’s grand forte-pianos to hear. / [...] / And suppose we should sup where we dine, / Why, ’tis all by the way of Cheapside!

at buzz, n.

1796

Chester Courant 17 June 1/2: Cornelius O’Crotchet’s Description of Longman and Broderip’s Music Manufactory in Cheapside, London. Having heard a great buzz about Longman and Brod’rip, / [...] / Just only to take a slight squint at their shop: / But, oh! thunder and ’ounds, / What a bodd’ring of sounds, / Echo’d thro’ the whole building. / Blood and turf! he’d look back, / One of Longman’s grand forte-pianos to hear. / [...] / And suppose we should sup where we dine, / Why, ’tis all by the way of Cheapside!

at by way of Cheapside under Cheapside, n.

1796

Chester Courant 17 June 1/2: Cornelius O’Crotchet’s Description of Longman and Broderip’s Music Manufactory in Cheapside, London. Having heard a great buzz about Longman and Brod’rip, / [...] / Just only to take a slight squint at their shop: / But, oh! thunder and ’ounds, / What a bodd’ring of sounds, / Echo’d thro’ the whole building. / Blood and turf! he’d look back, / One of Longman’s grand forte-pianos to hear. / [...] / And suppose we should sup where we dine, / Why, ’tis all by the way of Cheapside!

at squint, n.

1796

Chester Courant 17 June 1/2: Cornelius O’Crotchet’s Description of Longman and Broderip’s Music Manufactory in Cheapside, London. Having heard a great buzz about Longman and Brod’rip, / [...] / Just only to take a slight squint at their shop: / But, oh! thunder and ’ounds, / What a bodd’ring of sounds, / Echo’d thro’ the whole building. / Blood and turf! he’d look back, / One of Longman’s grand forte-pianos to hear. / [...] / And suppose we should sup where we dine, / Why, ’tis all by the way of Cheapside!

at thunder and ouns! (excl.) under thunder!, excl.

1798

Chester Courant 25 Dec. 3/1: This execrable dog-hole of a city, is inhabited by a set of lazy wretches.

at doghouse, n.

1804

Chester Courant 17 July 3/5: The saddle was won [...] by Mr Spire’s black horse Satan, who beat Capt. Chattes’ chestnut colt Bouncing Ben.

at bouncing ben, n.

1806

Chester Courant 29 July 1/1: Ellenborough Lodge, vulgarly denominated the King’s Bench prison.

at Ellenborough’s lodge, n.

1810

Chester Courant 13 Feb. 3/5: I must thiink it an insult to [...] my readers (whom this Grub-street hero dignifies with the titleof ‘dull Cestrians’.

at Grub Street, adj.

1811

Chester Courant 28 May 3/4: On Tuesday the bruising-match [...] between Molineaux, the black, and Rimmer, was fought with all the savage brutality that makes such meetings.

at bruising, n.

1813

Chester Courant 27 Apr. 4/1: They drink, like true Britons, their own humming ale.

at humming ale, n.

1814

Chester Courant 13 Sept. 4/1: As Towzer’s the Lap-dog of Mother Johanna [...] No wonder at last we should hear of a Pup [signed] Bow-Wow.

at bow-wow, n.

1814

Chester Courant 23 Aug. 2/2: ‘The Gobes-mouches (sap-sculls) of England are much enraged with a young lady, seventy years of age, who pretends to be pregnant.

at sapscull (n.) under sap, n.²

1815

Chester Courant 28 Feb. 4/3: He puts a fine parcel of money into his own pocket! [...] quite a filch! Oh a blessed babe of grace!

at babe of grace (n.) under babe, n.

1815

Chester Courant 5 Sept. 4/5: [headline] Blackguardism!

at blackguardism (n.) under blackguard, n.

1815

Chester Courant 28 Feb. 4/3: He puts a fine parcel of money into his own pocket! [...] quite a filch! Oh a blessed babe of grace!

at filch, n.

1817

Chester Courant 16 Sept. 3/4: This [...] would only happen to those men who now invariably keep St Monday as a holiday [...] whether it was St Monady or St Saturday.

at keep St Monday (v.) under St Monday, n.

1818

Chester Courant 28 July4/2: She [...] measures out the provisions like a nipcheese purser.

at nipcheese, n.

1818

Chester Courant 28 July4/2: A mad-brained Ruffian of quality flew at the four-in-hand.

at ruffian, n.¹

1818

Chester Courant 29 Sept. 4/2: P-m [...] has invented a new mixture [of snuff] - a good hit: not to be sneezed at.

at not to be sneezed at under sneeze, v.¹

1820

Chester Courant 25 Jan. 4/5: I bequeath a string hempen collar, as the only legacy I can think that is worthy of him.

at hempen collar (n.) under hempen, adj.

1821

Chester Courant 20 Nov. 4/3: If [...] an injury should be done to the teeth, it is called a rattling of the box of dominoes.

at box of dominoes (n.) under box of..., n.

1821

Chester Courant 20 Nov. 4/3: When a man appears to advantage out of his clothes, he is said to buff well .

at buff, n.¹

1824

Chester Courant 4 May 4/4: The meaning of ‘A Peg Too Low’ — the Peg tankard, a species of wassail bowl [...] which was divided by pegs to ascertain the quantity each person drank.

at go a peg lower (v.) under peg, n.⁴

1826