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Hants. Advertiser 24 Apr. 3/2: ‘Sure now,’ replied the other (who by his accent was an Irishman) [...] ‘And why so?’ reiterated the boglander.at boglander (n.) under bog, n.3
Hants. Advertiser 24 Apr. 3/2: ‘Sure now,’ replied the other (who by his accent was an Irishman) [...] ‘And why so?’ reiterated the boglander. Hants. Advertiser 28 June 4/6: My eyes and limbs, what a state the river’s in.at my eye(s)!, excl.
Hants. Advertiser 13 June 2/4: [of one from whom a street seller will get no money] Instead of taking turn and turn about, he picks out all the ‘capitals,’ and leaves [...] the ‘blanks’.at blank, n.
Hants. Advertiser 13 June 2/4: This here defendant is vot ve calls in our perfession [i.e. link-men] a ‘shy cock’ cause you see as how he vorks on the ‘cross.’ He ain’t never been brought up to our art.at shy-cock, n.
Hants. Advertiser 31 Dec. 2/4: Mr Ventham (whose Caleb Quotem qualifications have enabled him besides his duties of a Schoolmaster to undertake the offices of Clerk to the Union, Inspector of Corn Averages...).at Caleb Quotem, n.
Hants. Advertiser 13 May 3/2: His little boy took up the shilling and said it was a rummish one [...] a bad shilling.at rummish (adj.) under rum, adj.
Hants Advertiser 7 Aug. 4/5: ‘You see, Massa Buccra, mass gib Quashie ten-penny-bit’.at backra, n.
Hants Advertiser 30 Jan. 4/3: His son [...] in allusion to an ill-dressed dish [...] exclaiming, ‘Be Jesus, ould boy, the belly-timber has been badly looked after [...] Eh, governor?’.at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
Hants. Advertiser 28 Aug. 2/3: The Manchester people provide grub and bub for the preachers and their congregations.at grub and bub (n.) under grub, n.2
Hants Advertiser 7 Aug. 4/5: ‘You see, Massa Buccra, mass gib Quashie ten-penny-bit’.at quashie, n.
Hants. Advertiser 2 Oct. 5/3: [T]he hardened wretch did nothing but sneer at what he had done, saying [...] it was ‘a great cry and little wool’— it was only the small bone of her arm — she was not much hurt.at wool, n.1
Hants. Advertiser 2 Oct. 5/1: Get along, you d— fool!at get along with you!, excl.
Hants. Advertiser 18 Nov. 4/6: A case of stealing two rabbits, tried at last Sessions, where the witness, a travellling ‘Cheap Jack’, was brought 150 miles.at cheap john, n.1
Hants. Advertiser 8 June 3/5: They had skillagolee for breakfast.at skillagalee, n.
Hants Advertiser 10 May 8/2: [She] was charged by P.C. Fish with being found in a state [...] of ‘How came you so’.at how came you so, phr.
Hants. Advertiser 11 Apr. 3/2: The pleasure harden [...] reminds us of early times in the suburbs of Cockneyshire.at Cockneyshire (n.) under Cockney, adj.
Hants. Advertiser 2 Oct. 5/1: Srah Albert was ordered to pay one shilling and costs, for assaulting Elizabeth Berry, who had aggravated her by calling her [...] ‘Dolly Mop’.at dollymop, n.
Hants Advertiser 3 Apr. 5/1: The next defendant was James Riddett, otherwise ‘Frenchy’.at Frenchie, n.1
Hants Advertiser 20 Jan. 6/2: I sees many of their [i.e. tramps’] gammocks; when they goes up to the door they begins shivering [...] as if they was poorly or starved.at gammocks, n.
Hants Advertiser 19 May 5/5: What appears to our obfusticated ideas the signs of death [...] may only be [etc.].at obfusticated, adj.
Hants Advertiser 20 Jan. 6/2: [They] relate stories of ‘softuns’ whom they have swindled.at soft one (n.) under soft, adj.
Hants Advertiser 20 Jan. 6/2: Any tramper arriving in town can be supplied with a list [...] of the best squares and streets as well as such of the inhabitants as are known to be ‘soft tommys’ — always for a consideration.at soft tommy (n.) under soft, adj.
Hants. Advertiser 30 Aug. 6/5: He had taken the things as he believed his employer was drowned. Witness knew that persons technically described themselves as drowned when they became bankrupts.at drowned (in the mercer’s book), adj.
Hants Advertiser 26 Apr. 2/6: [headline] Conviction of the ‘Cunning Man’ of Rolvendon.at cunning man (n.) under cunning, adj.
Hants. Advertiser 14 June 5/1: Marlow said he had got some jackets (a slang word for sheep skins), and had sold them.at jacket, n.
Hants. Advertiser 2 Oct. 6/6: The cow-faced women of the place are seen hurrying away.at cowface (n.) under cow, n.1
Hants Advertiser 17 Nov. 6/1: He should be compelled to sew him up if he didn’t pay his subscriptions.at sew up, v.
Hants. Advertiser 8 Mar. 6/2: William Heath, known to the police as a ‘shop sneak,’ was charged with stealing a waistcoat from the door of Mr Gamin’s general shop.at shop-sneak (n.) under shop, n.1
Hants. Advertiser 19 June 10/3: he was administering to them political ‘flapdoodle’.at flapdoodle, n.2
Hants. Advertiser 19 May 7/5: The Huge Yankee Bouncer Making a Fool of Himself.at bouncer, n.1
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