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New Mthly Mag. 382: How many would acknowledge the convenience to a ‘drapery Miss,’ when far past her teens, of hiring a set of teeth by the ball-night!at drapery miss, n.
New Mthly Mag. 382: How many would acknowledge the convenience to a ‘drapery Miss,’ when far past her teens, of hiring a set of teeth by the ball-night! New Mthly Mag. X 268: Did the reader ever meet with a supposed sort of woman, called a horse-godmother? Is he acquainted (as he very likely is) with other varieties of the species, yclept coarse-minded women, scolds, vixens, trollops, &c. at horse godmother (n.) under horse, n.
New Mthly Mag. XIII 317: What’s peck and perch, and a pound a-week? Why, I got as much twenty years ago when I was in the wet line.at peck and perch (n.) under peck, n.1
New Mthly Mag. 32 113: He designated Mr. Stanley as ‘a shave beggar;’ alluding to the practice of Irish barbers to commit mendicants to their apprentices .at shave-beggar under shave, v.
New Mthly Mag. I 15/1: The proposed duty would be a protective one of about 50 per cent on gin [...] exceeding the retail price of the ‘cream of the valley’.at cream of the valley (n.) under cream, n.1
New Mthly Mag. pt. 2 367: As a field for fraud, as an arena for the exercise of robbery, only a little more lawful than that of picking pockets — as a sanctuary for thimble-rigging and ring-dropping upon a grand scale — the race-course is yearly becoming narrower.at thimble-rig, v.
New Mthly Mag. 513: I resolved to scale the palings, which I effected with some little damage from the splinters and tenterhooks to my sit down-upons .at sit-down-upons (n.) under sit-down, n.
New Mthly Mag. June 220: I am aware he is usually as full of beer of his own brewing, as I was then of the article of my own writing; id est, ‘full to the bung’.at full to the bung (adj.) under full, adj.
Peter Priggins in New Mthly Mag. pt 2 225: I took particular care to slew the buttons at the knees well forward in a slanting-dicular direction .at slantindicular, adj.
New Mthly Mag. pt 3 46: ‘A filthy tar jacket!’ repeated Ward, assuming more than a patrician dignity. ‘Do you mean me, sir?’.at tar, n.1
New Mthly Mag. part 2 361: They arrived at the turnpike-gate; this was lifted carefully from its hinges and deposited in a neighbouring ditch, which must have saved pikey an immensity of annoyance.at pikey, n.
New Mthly Mag. pt. 3 101: I’m going to have nine corns more, and then Juggenel and Brown Bury will have digested their corn; they've earned their oats to-day.at nine corns (n.) under nine, adj.
New Mthly Mag. Feb. 181: ‘Yer dinner’s ready, sir’, screamed a red-shank from the house. [Ibid.] 180: [note] A term applied in Connaught to ladies, who consider stockings a superfluity .at redshank, n.
New Mthly Mag. Oct. 245: Crossing of the Jury mountings ewents accurd of a Dellicat nater wareby Unbenown to parints a Serting lady had a randyvoo with a serting gent which his Name shall never be menshund sept between frends.at randyvoo, n.
New Mthly Mag. 94 310: ‘Get out the Cardigan, Jasper,’ said the colonel to the man, who forthwith produced a three-quarters-full black bottle, with the word ‘Brandy,’ in black letters on the ivory label. ‘Ah, that's the stuff!’ exclaimed the colonel.at that’s the stuff under stuff, the, n.
New Mthly Mag. CV 249: Naughty roaring babies, dumb; rampacious boys, schooled into silence.at rampacious, adj.
New Mthly Mag. 114 241: They shan’t have nigger-driving here, anyhow. Our News (a paper so called) shows them up now and then.at nigger-driving (n.) under nigger-driver, n.
New Mthly Mag. 412: Bullocky Pat — so called from having driven a team of those useful and much-enduring animals — was a stalwart Irish lad.at bullocky, n.
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