1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 40: All the busseys twigged us, too, and begun throwin’ their jeers out, till I felt as mad as a hatter.at ...a hatter under mad as..., adj.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 5: I wore a high starched collar and a little tuppenny-’a’penny white rag twisted round my neck instead of the old belcher.at belcher, n.1
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 21: ‘It’s five shillings to pay, sir.’ ‘Why, yer shabby cannibal,’ ses I.at cannibal, n.1
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 40: A boy twigged us and give us a chyike [...] and all the busseys twigged us, too, and began throwing their jeers out.at chi-ike, n.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 66: I never see such a chikking-killing in my life.at chi-ike, v.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 101: Look at the Chinee popilation theirselves, and the poor rag, tag, and bob-tail kreeturs that pretends to govern ’em.at Chinee, adj.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 28: It was Betsey ’avin a bit of a fite jest for fun like with a coaly’s wife.at coalie, n.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 29: He pulls off a werry dickey sort o’ tile.at dicky, adj.2
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 33: Then they all let one another ’ave it ding dong — ’ammer an’ tongs, o’ both sides.at ding-dong, adv.1
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 7: The hair o’ most o’ the great gabies was parted down the middle.at gaby, n.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 22: ‘Corfee yer gran’mother,’ my old lady ses, firin’ up.at your granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 29: Every blessed word o’ this was Greek to me.at Greek, n.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 21: I chucks on my new velveteen startler [...] and a hairy cap, and them high-lows as I had made.at hairy, adj.2
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 21: I chucks on my new velveteen startler [...] a hairy cap, and them high-lows as I had made.at highlows (n.) under high, adj.1
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 18: I am goin’ to ’op the twig. I am slowly wastin’ away with ’unger.at hop the twig, v.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 5: I says, stately like, to show I could be up in the sterrups too, ‘Look in the right-hand pocket of the coat, young man.’.at up in (the) stirrups, adj.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 2: There’s many a poor creeter without so much as an old jacket to pawn for a toothful o’ juniper.at juniper (juice), n.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 28: Joe won’t yer cum and ’elp yer lawful wife as them villains is a limbing of?at limb, v.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 9: And if he didn’t give me a dose of the sourest muck I ever put to my lips, I’m a Dutchman.at muck, n.1
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 1: ‘Good-bye; gee hup, Neddy,’ he says to the donkey.at neddy, n.1
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 28: Jest as I was thinkin’ ’ow nobby I’d got over it, I see a site as give me quite a turn.at nobby, adj.
1867 R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 7: ‘I seldom touches it,’ I ses, ‘except once in a way with sage and onions; and I ain’t wery nutty on it then.’.at nutty upon (adj.) under nutty, adj.2