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Temple Bar I 386: He is acquainted with [...] the clerical High-Church nephew who wears a stiff-starched dog-collar instead of a cravat .at dog-collar (n.) under dog, n.2
Temple Bar I 386: He is acquainted with [...] the clerical High-Church nephew who wears a stiff-starched dog-collar instead of a cravat . Temple Bar III 552: Then my lady ran off to tell us how dull Fernwood was .at run off (v.) under run, v.
in Temple Bar mag. 54: It is considered the thing just now to run down dashing horse-women by fastening upon them the epithet ‘pretty horse-breaker’.at pretty horse breaker, n.
Temple Bar Mar. 127: Rome is overwhelmingly sad; Paris is overwhelmingly caddish.at caddish (adj.) under cad, n.1
Temple Bar X 185: No kag-mag wares are sold, no cheap articles are retailed [F&H].at cagmag, adj.
Temple Bar Dec. 40: He is an adept in that branch of persuasive dialectics known as conoodling. He will conoodle the ladies [...] into the acquisition of whole packages of gimcrack merchandise [F&H].at canoodle, v.
in Temple Bar Dec. 40: He is as dextrous as a Regent Street counter-jumper in the questionable art of ‘shaving the ladies’ [F&H].at shaving, n.
(ref. to 1839) Temple Bar 16 548: Mr. Cotton [...] thought of a good opportunity for retiring. ‘I have now,’ he said, ‘accompanied just three hundred and sixty-five poor fellows to the gallows. That's one for every day in the year. I may retire after seeing such a round number die with cotton in their ears’.at die with cotton in one’s ears (v.) under die, v.
Temple Bar XVI 184: Let the spikes be what they may they were a great deal better than the padding-kens [F&H].at spike, n.2
Temple Bar 10 413: [H]e could no longer ‘make tongue and buckle meet’.at make tongue and buckle meet (v.) under tongue, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 539: ‘Locusing’ is putting a chap to sleep with chloroform, and ‘bellowsing’ is putting his lights out. In other words, drugging and murder.at bellowser, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 536: There’s old Dick over in that bed there; he used to go ‘mumping,’ and when he got boosey with too much lush he stole some paltry thing or other.at boozy, adj.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 536: You can make a fair thing by ‘snotter-hauling,’ even if you cannot get on at ‘fly-buzzing’.at buzzing, n.1
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 534: You change your mind after you have ‘rung’ your snyde half ‘quid’ with the good one.at ring the changes, v.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 539: Her accomplice the coshman (a man who carries a ‘cosh’ or life-preserver) comes up.at cosh, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 537: Why, ‘lob’ means a till, and ‘Peter’ means a safe. Stealing the till and opening the safe is what we call ‘lob-sneaking’ and ‘Peter-screwing’.at lob-crawling, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 538: And, my Crikey! if you had only seen how the old codger looked.at crikey!, excl.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 536: ‘What do you mean by ‘snow-dropping?’ I asked ‘O!’ said he, ‘that’s a poor game. It means lifting clothes off the bleaching line, or hedges. Needy mizzlers, mumpers, shallow-blokes, and flats may carry it on.’.at snow-dropping, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 537: These ‘shallow-blokes’ turn ‘duffers’ sometimes. They get some ‘duffing’ silk handkerchiefs and cigars and go about selling them for smuggled goods.at duffer, n.1
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 535: I’ll tell you a game that you might try [...] that is ‘fawney-dropping;’ you know ‘fawney’ means a ring.at fawney-rig (n.) under fawney, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 537: The ‘fence-master’’s the fellow who buys stolen property.at fence-master (n.) under fence, n.1
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 538: ‘What are fins?’ ‘Five-pound notes, or flash notes.’.at fin, n.2
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 538: ‘I heard a bloke talking about a picking-up moll [...] What did he mean by that?’ ‘Oh! that’s a very common racket. He meant a “flash-tail,” or prostitute who goes about the streets at nights trying to pick up “toffs”.’.at flashtail (n.) under flash, adj.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 534: ‘Hoisting’ [...] that’s a much better game, but it requires a fellow to be rigged out like a ‘toff,’ and they generally have a ‘flash moll’ with them at that job.at flash moll (n.) under flash, adj.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 539: ‘Show me how to hang a fellow up, or put the ‘flimp’ on him, as you call it.’ ‘D’ye see that bone in the wrist? Just get that on the windpipe – so’ (showing me practically how to garotte).at put the flimp on (v.) under flimp, v.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 537: Picking pockets [...] is more difficult on the ‘fly’.at on the fly under fly, n.1
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 535: ‘Don’t you think ‘highflying’ would suit me better, although I know little about it?’ ‘O, that’s above your mark; a “highflyer” is a bloke who dresses like a clergyman, or some gentleman. He must be educated, for his game is to know all the nobility and gentry, and visit them with got-up letters [...] for the purpose of getting subscriptions to some scheme.’.at high-flyer, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 535: ‘Don’t you think “highflying” would suit me better, although I know little about it?’ ‘O, that’s above your mark; a “highflyer” is a bloke who dresses like a clergyman, or some gentleman. He must be educated, for his game is to know all the nobility and gentry, and visit them with got-up letters [...] for the purpose of getting subscriptions to some scheme.’.at high flying, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 536: It’s better to stick to one good game, and get as expert at that as you can.at game, n.
‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 539: The way they do it is to have a penny with two heads or two tails on it, which they call a ‘grey,’ and of course they can easily dupe flats from the country. [...] I suppose they have named it after Sir George Grey because he was a two-faced bloke?at grey, n.
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