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Times 29 Nov. 4: Little Beaux Jemmies, among whom I have the honour to be ranked with the nick-name of, Sir, Puff Cheek-Squat-Bum.at bum, n.1
Times 29 Nov. 4: Little Beaux Jemmies, among whom I have the honour to be ranked with the nick-name of, Sir, Puff Cheek-Squat-Bum. Times 29 Nov. 4: Little Beaux Jemmies, among whom I have the honour to be ranked with the nick-name of, Sir, Puff Cheek-Squat-Bum.at jemmy, n.2
Times 18 July 1/1: The annual bean feast at the long-established House in St. George’s-Fields, which for so many years has been celebrated under that Title, will be held on the 22d of this present July, where the Company of all the Friends will be esteemed as a favour to the House, and compliment to the Stewards.at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
Times 28 Apr. 2/2: If the culprit himself was allowed to present petitions to that House whenever he was pinched, he could by this means divert the prosecution, by turning his accusers into culprits and criminals.at pinch, v.
Times (London) 9 Oct. 1/2: [advert] The cordial balm of gilead, a restorative unequalled, a bracer and invigorator of the whole animal function.at bracer, n.1
Times 28 Apr. 4/2: I don’t want to see that House [i.e. of Commons] filled with men who are notoriously bought and sold like a bullock in Smithfield Market.at sold like a bullock in Smithfield (adj.) under sold, adj.
Times 7 Oct. 3/2: What will be said then, to such slang and slipslop as the following — that the Ambassador and his suit were ‘the lions of the Court’ [...] in the same sense as the vulgar expression of showing the lions?at show the lions (and tombs) (v.) under show, v.
Times 28 Oct. 3/2: When taken to the watch house he did not know that the defendant was put into the black-hole.at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
Times 27 Mar. 3/4: It seems that in the slang Dictionary ‘to bone’ means to steal anything, and thus the plunder becomes ‘bonings.’.at bone, v.1
Times 27 Mar. 3/4: It seems that in the slang Dictionary ‘to bone’ means to steal anything, and thus the plunder becomes ‘bonings.’.at bonings, n.
Times 28 Oct. 3/2: The bucks among our ancestors were designated by the name of Mohawks, and wherever they went they were avoided like American savages.at Mohock, n.
Times 4 Mar. 3/4: Monday night the flags of the Blues were paraded through the town [i.e. Boston] by torch-light; and the Pink party had a meeting .at pink, adj.
‘Buying a Brush’ in Times 17 Sept. 3/3: When a trickster is foil’d and hemm’d round every way / And his projects no further can push, / His only resource, in the slang of the day, / Is said to be – ‘buying a brush.’.at buy a brush (v.) under brush, n.1
Times 11 Sept. 3/4: Having declared that she had been ‘disguised’ the day before [she said] she had no recollection of the vengeance she had taken.at disguised, adj.
Times 11 Sept. 3/3: If the swells do not come forward and settle the business we shall lag him.at lag, v.2
Times 13 Aug. 3/3: Asking ‘if he had not slinge and bazel at home’ which are slang expressions meaning embezzled cloth.at bazel, n.
Times 29 Oct. 2/4: We must have a word of the poetry, just to put the lush and peck gentlemen out of countenance.at peck, n.1
Times 29 Oct. 2/5: ‘Dress,’ says Dr. Pangloss very properly, ‘is the word, not rig, unless metaphorically.’.at rig, n.3
Times 13 Aug. 3/3: Asking ‘if he had not slinge and bazel at home’ which are slang expressions meaning embezzled cloth.at slinge, n.
Times 27 Nov. 2/4: He [...] affects a buckish levity in matters of crim. con. and seduction.at buckish (adj.) under buck, n.1
letter in Times 8 Dec. n.p.: The invunerability of ‘Fishmonger’s Hall,’ or the Crock-odile Mart for gudgeons, flat-fish, and pigeons, is likely soon to be put to the proof.at flat fish (n.) under flat, adj.1
letter in Times 9 Oct. n.p.: The hellites at all the hells [...] do not fail to resort to every species of cheating.at hellite (n.) under hell, n.
Times 30 June 5/4: Endeavouring to defraud the shopman [...] out of the sum of 25s. by the following trick, which, in the slang dialect, is called ‘ringing the changes.’.at ring the changes, v.
Times 30 June 5/5: The prisoner [...] said that he not care if he was topped (hanged); and Jones said that [...] he did not care if he was lagged (transported).at top, v.3
Times 2 Feb. 3/5: As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him – give him no rope’ [...] were vociferated [...] ‘Burke Hare too!’.at burke, v.
Times 2 Sept. 4/1: She as obliged to pass another night in the sponging-house.at sponging-house, n.
Times 2 Sept. 4/3: Their prisoner [...] struggled to get at his knife to ‘stick’ them as he said.at stick, v.
Times 10 Dec. 4/2: Some, however, who were not members of the Trades’ Union, remained in his employ [...] by which they became, in the slang of the Union, black sheep.at black sheep, n.
Times 6 Oct. 4/1: [He] was charged with having robbed a gentleman [...] of two sovereigns, at Rowbottom’s ‘Finish’ at an early hour of the morning [...] George Chalton was then sworn, and stated that he was head waiter at the Finish.at Finish, the, n.
Times 21 Dec. 4/4: The defendant had a two ounce weight affixed to the bottom of his scales, and suspended by a wire through the counter. This mode of defrauding the poor is called by the trade ‘riding the monkey’.at riding the monkey under monkey, n.
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