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Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 10: ‘I never did spend sich a pleasant day afore — never!’ [...] ‘It’s ralely bin a hout and houter!’.at out-and-outer, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 10: ‘I never did spend sich a pleasant day afore — never!’ [...] ‘It’s ralely bin a hout and houter!’. Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 50: But they’re so wulgar, Bob, and call sich names / As quite the tag-rag of St. Giles’ shames.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 137: Well, old puff and blow! [...] What’s in the wind? Want to sell out?at puff and blow, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 15: My pockets, too, are picked! Yes — some clever ‘artist’ has drawn me while asleep!at artist, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 124: Tapping his breast [...] and puffing out his cheeks to indicate that his lungs were disordered. ‘What, bellows to mend?’ cried my accomplished patron.at bellows to mend under bellows, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 159: [He was] mounted on a roadster — his ‘bit ’o blood’ had been sent forward .at bit of blood (n.) under bit, n.1
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 4: No more shooting in the grass, mind! [...] or ve shall have the blades upon us agin.at blade, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 167: i’m in jolly good health and harty as a brick.at brickish (adj.) under brick, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 155: Watty was so good-humoured a fellow, that he could laugh at an Irish bull.at bull, n.2
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 81: His legs, indeed, became so slight, that many of his jocose companions amused themselves with striking at them with straws as he passed [...] ‘Whoy, Giles!’ remarked one of them, ‘thee calves ha' gone to grass, lad’.at calves gone to grass, phr.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 99: So he was dumb, silent and glum, as the small ‘chay’ he drew, / And ventured no replies / [...] ‘’Tis quite a fag, this “chay” to drag’.at chay, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 44: [He went] straight home — as he could, leaving his spouse (like many a deserted wife) soaking her clay, because he refused to support her !at moisten the clay (v.) under clay, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 1: The guns hasn’t got them thingummy ‘caps,’ but that's no matter, for cousin says them cocks won’t always fight.at that cock won’t fight under cock, n.3
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 4: Vell, I’m blowed if that [i.e. a fine] ain’t a cooler!at cooler, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 131: I’m precious krank with tacking.at crank, adj.1
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 3: O! crikey! — there’s a heap o’ birds.at crikey!, excl.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 1: Let me know by Jim if you can cut your stick as early as nine.at cut (one’s) stick(s), v.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 151: The cry of the whole crew was, that they were all going to Davy Jones’s locker.at go to Davy Jones’s locker (v.) under Davy Jones’s locker, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 17: ‘I was once in a cage myself,’ said his chum. ‘And what did they take you for?’ ‘Take me for? — for a lark.’ ‘Pretty Dickey!’ ‘Yes, I assure you, it was all dickey with me’.at dicky, adj.1
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 9: ‘Vot a rum cove that ’ere is,’ said Grubb. ‘Double stout, eh?’ [...] and certain it is, that, although the artist has [...] only given us a draught of the landlord, he was a subject sufficient for a butt!at double, adv.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 69: The hammer of the president rapped them to order, and ‘knocked down’ Sniggs for a song.at knock down, v.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 41: I tell you what, my lads, if I knew your master, I’d pull you up, and have you well dressed.at dress, v.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 134: He drew out a five-pound note! ‘Here, Wallis, tip him this flimsy!’.at flimsy, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 167: napps [...] as dun his dooty like a rig’lar flint.at flint, n.1
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 44: ‘You’re drunk — drunk, Sarah, drunk!’ ‘On’y a little elevated, Jack.’ ‘Elevated! — floor’d you mean.’ ‘Vell; vot’s the odds as long as you're happy?’.at floored, adj.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 65: Old Foozle was one of those who, having accumulated wealth, retire with their housekeepers to spend the remnant of their days in some suburban retreat.at foozle, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) : I hate all forriners —why don’t he go back to Frogland, and not come here.at Frogland (n.) under Frog, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 3: I say — vot are you about ? Don’t put the shot in afore the powder, you gaby!at gaby, n.
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 168: i think ive seed im a sarvin out svipes and blue ruin at the gin-spinners corner o’ [...] petticut lane [ibid.] 169: ven turnin’ round to look for the gin-spinner, blow me! sam, if i didn’t see the cove a-goin heels over head .at gin-spinner (n.) under gin, n.4
Seymour’s Humourous Sketches (1866) 27: By Gog, you’ll be all over presently — don’t lay your hand on my scull.at gog, n.
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