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Sporting Times 22 Sept. 1/1: He got into disgrace with a Harlequin, and had to knock under; but that was ‘after dinner,’ and when was, like the barber’s cat, ‘full of wind and water’ .at barber’s cat (n.) under barber, n.1
Sporting Times 22 Sept. 1/1: He got into disgrace with a Harlequin, and had to knock under; but that was ‘after dinner,’ and when was, like the barber’s cat, ‘full of wind and water’ . Sporting Times 2 Feb. 6/3: [N]ot content with low thoughts you must have suitable slangy words. Your bloody fines, your hard cheeses, and likewise hard crusts, et hoc genus omne, are natural to you as to stink is to a badger.at hard cheese (n.) under hard, adj.
Sporting Times 4 Apr. 5/1: The merry abandon and the ‘go’ of polka.at go, n.1
Sporting Times 7 Jan. 7/3: Mr Foulplay— Don’t go a quoting from your (adjective) succylar.at adjective, adj.
Sporting Times 7 Jan. 5/1: A correspondent enquires whether a fiver lost over a ‘dead ’un’ can be called funeral note?at dead one, n.
Sporting Times 7 Jan. 1/1: Drinkers of ardent spirits [...] live by suction and eat little or nothing.at suction, n.1
Sporting Times 3 Jan. 5/2: Jack [...] is very hard up. He has just lost a cracker on the ‘Grand National’.at cracker, n.6
Sporting Times 11 Aug. 5/1: ‘But mind it goes no furder [sic], else I’ll never send you no more winners — strike me sober, I won’t’.at strike me sober! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Sporting Times 28 Dec. 7/2: Heis not a West-End Jew. He never lends monish.at monish, n.
Sporting Times 3 Mar. 3/1: The officers only drank Adam’s ale .at Adam’s ale (n.) under Adam, n.
Sporting Times (London) 15 Feb. 3/2: This deputation about music-halls was simply ‘crass assdom’.at assdom (n.) under ass, n.
Sporting Times 22 Mar. 3/2: THEN BOBBY shook up Austerlitz / And beat each other’s ’orse to fits .at beat into fits (v.) under beat, v.
Sporting Times 1 Mar. 3/1: This is an age of Benefits, Sir, and Testimonals [...] The latest ‘ben’ I have read of was taken by my friend Bill of the Surrey [Music Hall].at ben, n.2
Sporting Times (London) 15 Feb. 3/2: ‘I’ll go down on my bloomin’ benders [...] an’ swear as what I’ve said’s the truth [...] top me if it ain’t’.at bender, n.1
Sporting Times (London) 15 Feb. 3/1: ‘Buy the old bloomer a trumpet, if ’e can’t ’ear straight!’.at bloomer, n.2
Sporting Times 1 Mar. 7/2: The ‘pugilistic footman’ [...] what Mr A. Hutton bounces about .at bounce, v.1
Sporting Times 1 Mar. 1/3: George Rock, a ‘brief-snatcher,’ threatened to knife Harry Traherne, who is no friend of the brigade.at brief-snatcher (n.) under brief, n.1
Sporting Times 22 Mar. 3/1: Betwixt you and me, I have rung the changes upon nearly every horse [...] in that illicit and ill-printed circular .at ring the changes, v.
Sporting Times 22 Mar. 2/3: ‘Well then, it’s settled, cocky?’.at cocky, n.1
Sporting Times 1 Mar. 2/4: Gubbins didn’t come that game again’.at come, v.3
Sporting Times 22 Mar. 3/1: Of course, this part of my letter is in strictest ‘conf’ .at conf, n.
Sporting Times 15 Mar. 1/1: A lady who may evince a propensity for milking a cow is ‘corpsed’ on the spot.at corpse, v.
Sporting Times 1 Mar. 1/1: There used to be a regiment of the Line with so many burglars recruited into its ranks that it was called the ‘crack regiment’.at crack, n.4
Sporting Times 8 Mar. 1/2: ‘Do you know anything about this race, Mr Yonder?’ said a crutch-and-toothpick youth.at crutch-and-toothpick brigade (n.) under crutch, n.1
Sporting Times 8 Mar. 1/1: A young ‘crutch’ went into the Raleigh the other day and [...] this conversation took place. ‘Crutch’: ‘Aw, Hobson, do you know of any horses for saled. Aw’.at crutch, n.1
Sporting Times 15 Mar. 1/2: Breathes there a boy with soul so dead who has never rung an old gentleman’s bell violently, and then cut away?at cut, v.2
‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Meg’s Diversion’ Sporting Times 4 Sept.n.p.: He’d only one daisy root.at daisy roots, n.
Sporting Times (London) 15 Feb. 3/2: ‘It’s your treat this time, dash my old crabshells if it ain’t’.at dash my buttons! (excl.) under dash, v.1
Sporting Times (London) 15 Feb. 3/1: ‘Put up your docks, and slog it out’, roared the witness.at duke, n.3
Sporting Times 15 Mar. 1/4: Erecting flats in North Bank — oh gemini!at gemini!, excl.
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