1821 ‘Memoirs of Neat’ in Fancy I XIX 446: Fancy songs, Rum glees, and Kiddy catches were the order of the night, and the company kept it up till all was blue, with harmony benefitting the occasion.at till all is blue, phr.
1821 ‘Sparring Exhibitions’ in Fancy I XVII 408: The principal novelty of the day was the introduction of a new Black Diamond : and although a little bit in the rough, yet now and then some parts of his shining qualities so far peeped out, that several persons asked who he was?at black diamond (n.) under black, adj.
1821 ‘Miscellaneous’ in Fancy I IV 101: She [a prostitute] would sooner appear in Bridewell, for then, as she observed, ‘A body knows the worst on’t: a month does it: and then the citting Alderman may --- my rump’.at body, n.
1821 ‘Sparring Exhibitions’ in Fancy I XVII 409: Poor Sutton retired scarcely a brownie the better for it.at brownie, n.1
1821 ‘Memoirs of Dan Donnelly’ in Fancy I XVI 375: His house was nightly overflowing with company, bustle was in plenty.at bustle, n.1
1821 ‘Battle’ in Fancy I XIX 449: The Backers being leary, gave Beak and trap the go-by, and brought their men to the scratch in a field in Kent.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
1821 ‘Battle’ in Fancy I XVII 402: The secret had slipped out from some of the chaffing boxes of the lads.at chaffing box (n.) under chaffing, n.
1821 ‘Battle’ in Fancy I XVII 406: The Chatamites looking blue, almost thunderstruck, and their choppers as long as ‘Paterson’s Road Book’.at choppers, n.
1821 ‘Battle’ in Fancy I XIX 449: A match for 20 guineas a side between Gould a navigator, and Harris the Blackwall clicker, was the principal attraction.at clicker, n.3
1821 ‘Memoirs of Ned Painter’ Fancy I XVII 394: Painter [...] gave him, in quick succession, so many hard blows as took down the impertinence of this cock of the walk.at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
1821 Fancy I, 255: In the fourth round he came in all abroad, and got a doubler in the bread-basket, which spoiled him for the remainder of the fight [F&H].at doubler, n.2
1821 ‘Battle’ in Fancy I XVII 407: The combatants now got into a desperate rally, and Josh, receiving the most pepper, till he put in a Gaslighter in the middle of his opponents mug, that not only sent him staggering some yards, but produced the pink gushing out of both of his peepers.at Dutch pink (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
1821 ‘Miscellaneous’ in Fancy I IV 103: Mr. H. having knocked down every man-john of the nine pins, was declared the victor.at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
1821 ‘Miscellaneous’ in Fancy I IV 101: So down to Cateaton-street went she, accompanied by all the fillies and fancy-coves.at fancy cove (n.) under fancy, adj.
1821 ‘Miscellaneous’ in Fancy I IV 102: She departed the place then, and England soon after, in consequence of somebody’s bothering her about a swell’s fawney.at fawney, n.
1821 ‘Memoirs of Ned Painter’ in Fancy I XVII 399: It is not likely to be soon forgotten; for the Fancy lads went down in full feather, but many of them were so cleanly plucked that they could scarcely find buoyant plumage enough to wing their way back to the metropolis.at in full feather under feather, n.
1821 ‘Manful Exertions’ in Fancy I XVII 415: Down to posterity, he who of Fibbery / Details to the world its science and mystery, / Will weave (without fibbing) into his history / Neate valiant Neate, that extinguish’d the Gas.at fib, n.
1821 ‘Battle’ in Fancy I XVII 407: The combatants now got into a desperate rally, and Josh, receiving the most pepper, till he put in a Gaslighter in the middle of his opponents mug, that not only sent him staggering some yards, but produced the pink gushing out of both of his peepers.at gaslighter (n.) under gas, n.1
1821 ‘Battles’ in Fancy I XVIII 425: Acton placed a blow, when the Black grassed him by a heavy blow on the mouth.at grass, v.1
1821 ‘Sparring Exhibitions’ in Fancy I XVII 410: He went down like a log, and was picked up as groggy as a sailor three sheets to the wind.at groggy, adj.
1821 ‘Sparring Exhibitions’ in Fancy I XVII 410: He went down like a log, and was picked up as groggy as a sailor three sheets to the wind.at three sheets in the wind, phr.
1821 ‘Battle’ in Fancy I XVII 406: The Chatamites were all up in the stirrips at the success of their hero, and loudly offered to back him at 6 to 4.at up in (the) stirrups, adj.
1821 ‘Miscellaneous’ in Fancy I IV 102: Then did Mary, sweet Mary, bring her thieving-irons together with such wondrous force, that some one taking the hint she had given, put something in her hands.at thieving irons, n.
1821 ‘Miscellaneous’ in Fancy I IV 101: It happened that a fair Cyprian, Miss Hurley, of the Spice Islands, in Grub-street [...] was induced by some one who knew a little more, to take umbrage at this large bill.at spice island, n.
1821 ‘Battle’ in Fancy I XVII 405: Hudson planted a tremendous hit upon his opponent’s ivories.at ivory, n.
1821 ‘Manful Exertions’ in Fancy I XVII 411: Ben. Burns, the boxer, raced seventy yards with a Knight of the Thimble, in Hyde Park [...] Snip regretted losing, only because he was on the point of being married, and wanted to cut a dash in the eyes of his dreary.at ...the thimble under knight of the..., n.