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Handley Cross (1854) 99: You must be all alive in fact. Not an ’oss must die in the district without you knowin’ of it.at alive, adj.
Handley Cross (1854) 99: You must be all alive in fact. Not an ’oss must die in the district without you knowin’ of it. Handley Cross (1854) 427: ‘ll round my ’at!’ squeaked Benjamin in the crowd.at all around my hat, phr.
Handley Cross (1854) 497: He’s president of our free-and-easy, chairman of the incorporated society of Good Fellows.at free-and-easy, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 175: A night-cap of the usual beverage —‘B. and W.’ as he briefly designates his brandy and water.at b and s, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 406: A couple of hours steady butter and eggs bumping.at butter-and-eggs trot, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 140: The Tom-and-Jerry fox-’unter wot goes out now and then to smoke cigars, [...] and be able to talk of the ’ounds.at tom and jerry, adj.
Handley Cross (1854) 117: Pumpaginous aqua (which he says is french for tea and coffee).at aqua, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 526: B— boy’s shoved the corner of the shutter right into the pit of my stomach!at b, adj.
Handley Cross (1854) 133: It is a common trick played upon bagsters [...] when they are not generous to the servants at the inn.at bagman, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 118: ‘Vashin’ veskit, werry sheep; half nothin’ in fact,’ just as these barkers always chaff.at barker, n.1
Handley Cross (1854) 153: Only that bit bastard wad set up his gob, and say ar was to be in onder him.at bastard, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 296: Ruined, sir! — beggared! — nothing left for me but the onion — the bastille!at bastille, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 430: He [i.e. a horse] can go a good bat, too, when he’s roused.at bat, n.3
Handley Cross (1854) 364: This be him, with the bird’s-eye fogle round his squeeze.at bird’s eye fogle, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 360: If by any chance you bitch the thing, if all does not go smoothly and well on your part [etc.].at bitch, v.
Handley Cross (1854) 126: Two bottles of undeniable black strap.at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
Handley Cross (1854) 207: ‘Blastation!’ screamed the little old gentleman.at blast!, excl.
Handley Cross (1854) 502: His snub nose bore some disfiguring marks, called by the florists grog-blossoms.at grog blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Handley Cross (1854) 465: Had a blow-up with James Pigg about the merits of their masters.at blow-up, n.1
Handley Cross (1854) 417: A small jug of ‘sky-blue,’ which the flies use as a bath durin’ their repast on the sugar.at sky blue, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 110: The next minute, praps, he’s in a reg’lar sky-blue, swearin’ he’ll cut my liver and lights out.at sky blue, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 422: Mr Jorrocks [...] had rather an affection for the Dismal, and thought he would do for his Boobey Hutch.at booby-hutch, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 363: ‘Keep the tambourine a roulin’!’ exclaimed Pigg, who had been reining in his horse to hear his master bounce.at bounce, v.1
Handley Cross (1854) 520: ‘I’ll knock your head off your shoulders!’ ‘Vill you? [...] you’ll find yourself in the wrong box if you do’.at in a box under box, n.1
Handley Cross (1854) 66: Doleful must be a trump [...] Keen fellow too — Peep-of-day-boy.at peep o’ day boy, n.
Handley Cross (1854) 411: Take my adwice, and never employ a reg’lar butterer. Do it yourselves, or get a kind frind, wot knows your likin’s.at butterer (n.) under butter, v.
Handley Cross (1854) 394: The chairman, looking rather foolish at his butter not being swallowed.at butter, n.1
Handley Cross (1854) 68: [He] should know when to use the clean and when the dirty side of his tongue —when to butter a booby and when to snub a snob.at butter, v.
Handley Cross (1854) 528: ‘Sarve me out a couple of your confounded fried cabbage-leaves’ [...] The youth lit one of them.at cabbage, n.2
Handley Cross (1854) 94: After an evening of this agreeable dog and cat-ing [...] the gallant Captain at length made his adieus.at cat and dog life (n.) under cat, n.1
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