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30 May in Letters I (1891) 8: A disconsolate wood-pigeon in our grove, that was made a widow by the barbarity of a gun. She coos and calls me so movingly. [...] She is so allicholly as any thing.at allicholy, adj.
30 May in Letters I (1891) 8: A disconsolate wood-pigeon in our grove, that was made a widow by the barbarity of a gun. She coos and calls me so movingly. [...] She is so allicholly as any thing. in ballad Letters I (1891) 86: ‘O, ho!’ says Nol Bluff, ‘I have saved my own bacon.’.at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
in ballad Letters I (1891) 86: This our Captain no sooner had finger’d the cole, But he hies him abroad with his good Madam Vole.at cole, n.
12 Nov. Letters I (1891) 89: The city-shops are full of favours, the streets of marrowbones and cleavers, and the night will be full of mobbing, bonfires and lights.at mob, v.1
8 Apr. Letters I (1891) 153: I beheld a mawkin, in a chair, with three footmen, and a label on her breast, inscribed ‘Lady Mary’.at mawkin, n.
26 Nov. in Letters I (1891) 332: He let into the pit great numbers of Bear-garden bruisers (that is the term), to knock down everybody that hissed .at bruiser, n.
27 Sept. in Letters II (1891) 392: Churchill, whose led-captain he was, and my Lord Harrington, had pushed him up to this misfortune.at led captain, n.
Letters (1833) II 74: One gets pam, the other gets pam, but... no conclusion of the game, till one side has never a card left [F&H].at pam, n.
3 May Letters II (1891) 152: The Lords had four tickets a-piece, and each Commoner at first but two, till the Speaker bounced, and obtained a third.at bounce, v.1
20 Apr. in Letters III (1891) 10: She said in a very vulgar accent, if she drank any more, she should be muckibus.at muckibus, adj.
7 May in Letters III (1891) 310: He replied [...] ‘Then I must be content with this,’ and took some pigtail tobacco out of his pocket.at pigtail, n.
27 May Letters IV (1891) 238: Lady Faulkener’s daughter is to be married to a young rich Mr. Crewe, a Macarone, and of our Loo.at macaroni, n.1
Letters iv 359: As if old Poker was coming to take them away [F&H].at old poker (n.) under old, adj.
Letters II 422: There were all the beauties and all the diamonds, and not a few of the uglies of London [F&H].at ugly, n.
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