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Chambers Journal 341/2: Blessed if he didn’t show the white rag that time! an’ I thought myself as he’d done something bad.at show the (white) feather (v.) under show, v.
Chambers Journal 341/2: Blessed if he didn’t show the white rag that time! an’ I thought myself as he’d done something bad. Chambers’s Journal xv, 103: A pawnbroker contributes the linen, an exuberant quantity of which is generally one of the characteristics of the rig sale [F&H].at rig sale (n.) under rig, n.2
Chambers’s Jrnl 26 July 60/2: ‘A dark little urchin [...] gazed wonderingly at me as, slippers in hand, I prepared to recross the stream. ‘Dekho!’ cried he, pointing over to the spot I had just left – ‘Dekho!’ .at dekko, v.
Chambers’s Journal IX 383: Thar no better ’n spies, an’ thar last night’s work proves it. ’Twar all bamfoozle about thar gittin’ lost; ’em fellers git lost adeed!at bamfoozle, v.
Chambers Jrnl 25 Aug. 117/1: [T]he Champion of England had ‘caught him right amidships’.at amidships, adv.
Chambers’s Journal XIII 368: His forehead is his frontispiece [F&H].at frontispiece, n.
Chambers’s Journal XIII 22/1: But there is no occasion for us to say, with the Americans, that a man is well ‘posted up’ on a subject, while we can say that he is well informed on it.at posted, adj.1
Chambers’s Journal xiii 90: A few... amuse themselves by potting at us, but they are in too great a state of fear to make good practice [F&H].at pot, v.
Chambers’s Journal xiii, 348: His mouth is his ‘potatoe trap’ – more shortly, ‘tatur trap’ – or kisser [F&H].at potato-trap (n.) under potato, n.
Chambers’s Journal xiii 348: His mouth is his ‘potatoe trap’ – more shortly, ‘tatur trap’ – or kisser [F&H].at tater-trap (n.) under tater, n.
Chambers’s Journal XX 5: [...] having a bad cold means, in Camden Town, being in debt, while a very bad cold implies that the sufferer has taken clandestine departure from his lodgings [F&H].at have a cold (v.) under cold, n.
Chambers Jrnl 7 Mar. 150/1: Porky Jenkins had been formerly ‘the champion of the light weights’ [...] Handsome but for a broken nose, brave but for his fat.at porky, n.
Chambers Jrnl 11 Feb. 82/1: As on the Sunday morning these persons were sure to wake up with ‘the horrors’ — an affliction known only to the full by those who have got drunk upon beer-shop beer — so they were as sure to want a ‘livener’ and most of them used to make their weay to the Prince of Orange.at livener, n.
Chambers’s Journal 15 Feb. 110: I don’t, an’ never could splice ends with them as blow off gas about gold-digging – saying it’s plunder easy come an’ easy gone, seeking the root of evil, an’ other granny talk which hasn’t no meaning [F&H].at gas, n.1
Chambers’s Journal 9 July 448: What would it be worth? A flim, Sam [F&H].at flim, n.1
Chambers’s Journal Dec. 9 A Double Event 774: It would be a breach of confidence to tell you how it was arranged, but, after some haggling, it was arranged that, on the understanding that I gave up the securities, I was to bone the reward which the detectives had missed [F&H].at bone, v.1
Chambers’s Journal 9 Mar. 147: When a fellow gets the bullet from his work, he mostly has a spell at cab-driving [F&H].at get the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
Chambers’s Journal No. 581 107, col. 2: The male of the eatable frog is distinguished... by... a pouch... These pouches increase the volume of the croak, and render it so powerful that the possessors have, from the county in which they are particularly plentiful, received the nickname of Cambridgeshire nightingales [F&H].at Cambridgeshire nightingale (n.) under Cambridge, adj.
Amer. Eng. in Chambers’s Journal 25 Sept. 610: Money has forty or fifty different names; such singular terms as... shadscales, and charms figuring in the list [F&H].at charms, n.
Chambers’s Journal 13 Mar. 172/2: During the rebellion, the Peace party, being suspected of favouring the South, were nicknamed Copperheads or Cops [DA].at copperhead, n.
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Chambers’s Jrnl 13 Mar. 171/2: South Carolina is Palmetto State, and the natives are Weasels .at weasel, n.
Chambers’s Journal 629: Your own advocacy of the Grecian bend and the Alexandra limp – both positive and practical imitations of physical affliction [F&H].at Alexandra limp, n.
Chambers’s Journal 720: Such may have been the case in the days of brown bess, but a spinning conical ball from the Martini-Henry will pierce the largest crocodile [F&H].at brown bess, n.
Chambers’s Journal 12 Mar. 173: Mrs. Brittomart was one of those who never tolerated a bow-wow – a species of animal well known in India – and never went to the hills as a ‘grass-widow’ .at bow-wow, n.
Chambers’s Jrnl 12 Mar. 173: Mrs. Brittomart was one of those who never tolerated a bow-wow – a species of animal well known in India – and never went to the hills as a ‘grass-widow’ .at grass widow, n.
Chambers Jrnl 29 Nov. 759/1: I was dressed as a budmash or an irregular soldier.at budmash, n.
Chambers Jrnl 58 320/1: Ah, Master Westley, you ’re a deep one, you are! [...] But it don’t fare to be ezackerly jonnick.at jannock, adj.
Chambers’s Journal 19 Aug. 530: My eye! How you do mug up, Charley! You might go through this town [...] and I don’t believe a soul would know you [F&H].at my eye(s)!, excl.
Chambers’s Journal 19 Aug. 530: My eye! How you do mug up, Charley! You might go through this town [...] and I don’t believe a soul would know you [F&H].at mug up, v.1
Chambers Journal LX 516/1: Sir
Timothy was wont to boast that every bird there stood him in a guinea and a half .at stand, v.2
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