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London Mag. Apr. 201/2: The fat-gutted tapster both belches and f — ts.at fat-gutted (adj.) under fat, adj.
London Mag. Apr. 201/2: The fat-gutted tapster both belches and f — ts. London Mag. Jan. 47/2: Shall a catch-fart (good Lord!) or a man in your station / Thus familiarly boast of a frank invitation.at catch-fart (n.) under catch, v.1
‘Humours of an Election Entertainment’ inLondon Mag. Mar. 159/2: Ye hearty cocks! who feel the gout / Yet briskly push the glass about.at push the bottle (v.) under push, v.
London Mag. Oct. 521/1: Jack Clark, one of the wildest bucks in the whole county of Kent, and inferior to few in the metropolis for buckish spirit.at buckish (adj.) under buck, n.1
London Mag. 34 38: [I]mpiety [...] for which, the hundreds of Drury is a proverb of infamy.at hundreds of Drury, n.
London Mag. 38 34/2: [He] made her his harlot; and in double despite of marriage and religion, both lived with her openly, and Iyeth with her nightly, in shameful incest, and abominable bitchery.at bitchery (n.) under bitch, n.1
London Mag. Jan. 43/1: I shall have you hang’d, you shall swing for it, you dog, you shall be tuck’d up, you shall dangle.at dangle, v.
London Mag. Jan. 43/1: I shall have you hang’d, you shall swing for it, you dog, you shall be tuck’d up, you shall dangle.at tuck up, v.
London Mag. Feb. 53/2: She a loud blouzabella, he a finical, fluttering fop.at blouzabella, n.
London Mag. Oct. 496/2: This distinction [...] threw the grandees into every nervous sensation; fans fluttered, heads tossed, and every toe beat the devil's tattoo.at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
London Mag. i 26: It was their husband’s object to knap their thimbles [F&H].at knap, v.
London Mag. I 26: Always nutting each other [F&H].at nut, v.1
London Mag. I, 29: Leaving the stone-jug after a miserable residence in the salt-boxes, to be topp’d in front of the debtor’s door [F&H].at salt-box (n.) under salt, n.3
London Mag. June 173: There is a stratagem in old-clothes dealing called duffing. The practitioner [...] raises the scanty nap of a veteran garment, gives it a gloss [...] and passes it off as new .at duffing, n.
London Mag. Jan. 64: [...] or, as her niece called it, to ‘ballyrag,’ in the kitchen, at her handmaidens,
or in the hall, at her poor lodgers up stairs.at ballyrag, v.
London Mag. Apr. 513: The witness gave him what is called a ‘chum ticket,’ by which he became entitled to the use of the room, No. 14, in the third gallery, in common with two other prisoner.at chum-ticket (n.) under chum, n.
London Mag. Mar. 98/2: The waiter forthwith made his appearance, with an armful of huge clay pipes [...] called ‘aldermen’ from their exaggerated dimensions.at alderman, n.
London Mag. Feb. 12/1: [T]hat celebrated ‘slap-bang,’ or cut-slice eating-house [...] the ‘Larder of the Universe, Leg-of- Beef Soup, and general Roaste and Biled Establishment’.at slap-bang(-shop), n.
London Mag. Feb. 11/1: ‘Ha’e ye got bawbees enough in your breeks to give me change of a saxpence’.at baubee, n.
London Mag. Mar. 90/2: The unfortunate pair were rudely thrust forward [...] and locked up in a ‘black hole’.at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
London Mag. Feb. 5: The gentlemen who yawn in pit and boxes, / Shall find some sport, unkennelling state foxes; / The ‘blues’ in boddices or pantaloons, / Some porridge for their literary spoons.at blue, n.1
London Mag. Feb. 64/1: [in fig. use] No human hand can
ever recover them from the effects of this staggering boon, which has made of PEEL a mere ‘Staggering Bob’.at staggering bob, n.
London Mag. Feb. 49/2: The father was reckoned ‘a very great bounce,’ and had the cognomen of ‘Bouncing Jack’ accordingly.at bounce, n.1
London Mag. Feb. 64/1: The brother of the cabinet minister, who sported the ‘cut-off coat and brass buttons’ [...] was young Hobbus. Heaven knows he had ‘brass enough,’ without this exhibition, and the sooner he ‘cuts off’ to private life, the better.at brass, n.1
London Mag. Feb. 13/2: [I]f Davie was not a Scotchman, this might safely be pronounced an Irish bull; but the fact is, that bulls fatten in all climates.at bull, n.2
London Mag. Mar. 88/1: ‘The bulldogs know me so well that, by jingo! the scint of me near the office would cause a gineral purshute’.at bulldog, n.
London Mag. Feb. 14/2: Joined in the tenantcy of Mr. M’Kay’s chambers [...] was MR. MILESIUS MORIARTY O’FLAHERTY, a gentleman who was in almost all respects the very reverse of his ‘chum’.at chum, n.
London Mag. Feb. 82/1: There are some vile clap-traps interspersed throughout the play [...] which were very properly hissed, and, as a necessary consequence, subjected to the pruning-knife.at clap-trap, n.1
London Mag. Feb. 14/1: ‘There’s gemmen near vot can claw a cly in bang-up style—rig’lar knucklers.at claw, v.
London Mag. Feb. 44: [T]he Prince has promised for to sind a [...] full kevotten, imparial mizzur, av the pure craytur, to iviry mother's son avus.at creature, the, n.
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