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Letters by an Odd Boy 11: She looks after the young ’uns [...] and ain’t she A 1 at stewed prunes!at A-1, adj.
Letters by an Odd Boy 11: She looks after the young ’uns [...] and ain’t she A 1 at stewed prunes! Letters by an Odd Boy 161: I can trace something like an idea in [...] cold water [being] ‘Adam’s ale,’ the moon ‘a parish-lantern,’ and ‘a blue moon’ an indefinite period.at Adam’s ale (n.) under Adam, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 164: There are some strange expressions, I have been told, that in their origin are purely classical : — ‘All my eye and Betty Martin!’ is thus said to be the beginning of a Latin prayer — ‘Oh mihi Beate Martine’.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Letters by an Odd Boy 163: Why, in my theological opinions, should I be ‘high and dry,’ or ‘low and slow,’ or ‘broad and shallow?’.at broad and shallow, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 163: Why, in my theological opinions, should I be ‘high and dry,’ or ‘low and slow,’ or ‘broad and shallow?’.at high and dry, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 161: I can under stand my head itself to be ‘a nut,’ — let me hope with a sound kernel, — or, to change the figure, an ‘attic,’ as being the top story of my body.at attic, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 199: People [...] inadvertently express their admiration for the dog in a certain ‘Slap bang’ chorus to be heard everywhere, every day, all day long?at slap-bang(-shop), n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 160: I make the acquaintance of what I should call an unemployed journeyman tailor; but he is a ‘steel-bar driver out of collar’.at steel bar flinger (n.) under steel bar, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 164: ‘Barnacles,’ is a corruption of bino-cula.at barnacles, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 160: Beans, blunt, brass, bustle, coppers, chinkers, chips, dibbs, mopusses, needful, ochre, pewter, quids, rays, rowdy, shiners, stuff, tin, and stumpy! at bean, n.1
Letters by an Odd Boy 161: I comprehend that my hand may be ‘a bunch of fives,’ and my foot ‘a beetle-crusher.at beetle-crusher (n.) under beetle, n.1
Letters by an Odd Boy 163: If I buy old metal, why, on that account, should I be a ‘Billy-hunter?’.at billy-hunting (n.) under billy, n.4
Letters by an Odd Boy 165: Some of the slang expressions, also, are simply funny; as, for example, when you call [...] a four-wheeled cab ‘a bird-cage!at birdcage, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 162: Why, when I’m pretty well, should I be ‘bobbish?’ and when I mean to say I have spent my money, declare ‘I’ve blowed my blunt?’.at blow, v.2
Letters by an Odd Boy 61: Bolus, M.D., smiles and makes you all right again.at bolus, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 160: ’ I see a man that I should say was drunk; he is boozy, screwed, stewed, tight, lumpy, ploughed, muddied, obfuscated, top-heavy, with three sheets in the wind! at boozy, adj.
Letters by an Odd Boy 162: Why should I call the violinist who charms my customers a ‘bosh-faker?’.at bosh-faker (n.) under bosh, n.2
Letters by an Odd Boy 26: If A would put a stopper on his brag, and B would only shut up his bounce.at bounce, n.1
Letters by an Odd Boy 102: I butted at him, caught him in what I have since ascertained to be the bread-basket, and knocked him clean over.at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
Letters by an Odd Boy 7: I see the Clown at Christmas go slap through a baker’s window, in for a buster, to come out with a roll.at burster, n.1
Letters by an Odd Boy 160: Beans, blunt, brass, bustle, coppers, chinkers, chips, dibbs, mopusses, needful, ochre, pewter, quids, rays, rowdy, shiners, stuff, tin, and stumpy! at bustle, n.1
Letters by an Odd Boy 24: Jack is very daring, cheeky, chaffy.at chaffy, adj.
Letters by an Odd Boy 49: A live cat, with her tail for a handle, waas considered very cheesy.at cheesy, adj.1
Letters by an Odd Boy 145: Inveigle a live lord — or, better still, a lordling — a bit of chicken- nobility, — to open it with a neat speech.at chicken, adj.
Letters by an Odd Boy 160: Beans, blunt, brass, bustle, coppers, chinkers, chips, dibbs, mopusses, needful, ochre, pewter, quids, rays, rowdy, shiners, stuff, tin, and stumpy! at chinkers, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 160: Beans, blunt, brass, bustle, coppers, chinkers, chips, dibbs, mopusses, needful, ochre, pewter, quids, rays, rowdy, shiners, stuff, tin, and stumpy! at chip, n.2
Letters by an Odd Boy 72: He (that’s me) must be starving. ‘Not quite clemmed yet I say’ seeing that I have tucked into two good-sized banburys and a glass of cherry-brandy.at clem, v.
Letters by an Odd Boy 160: I make the acquaintance of what I should call an unemployed journeyman tailor; but he is a ‘steel-bar driver out of collar’.at out of collar under collar, n.
Letters by an Odd Boy 48: Don’t overrun the constable, in expectation of what might be given; don’t spend your money befroe you have it.at outrun the constable, v.
Letters by an Odd Boy 45‘: How are you off for soap?’ I said to Patchley [...] ‘I’m cooked,’ he said [...] ‘I am penniless’.at cooked, adj.
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