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W. Kent Guardian 11 June 4: The hooknose, Jew-jobbing elder happened not to be to the taste of the modern Susanna.at hooknose, n.
W. Kent Guardian 11 June 4: The hooknose, Jew-jobbing elder happened not to be to the taste of the modern Susanna. W. Kent Guardian 21 Apr. 6/4: Bravo, old cock o’ wax.at cock-a-wax (n.) under cock, n.3
West Kent Guardian 1 Dec. 8/3: Never did I see such a pounding match. — Both were what the boxers call gluttons.at pounding match, n.
West Kent Guardian 27 Oct. 4/4: The skull here is a capital balance to the scratch.at scratch, n.2
West Kent Guardian 4 July 6/3: Arra, my dear life, at the word she grew as black as twelve o’clock at night.at black as..., adj.
West Kent Guardian 4 July 6/3: Oh, begor, you may say that, says I.at begorra!, excl.
West Kent Guardian 26 Dec. 7/3: Men are said to be drunk when [...] they can’t see a hole in a ladder.at can’t see a hole in a (forty-foot) ladder under can’t..., phr.
West Kent Guardian 7 Mar. 4/1: The insertion of the letter [...] would subject us [...] to an action for libel by the ‘Devil-dodger’.at devil-dodger (n.) under devil, n.
West Kent Guardian 4 July 6/3: ‘Well now [...] — I’m a gone woman, gintlemen,’ grunted Judy Clampitt.at gone, adj.2
West Kent Guardian 4 July 6/3: Judy: Oh murdher a’ neckurs, dear.at murder!, excl.
West Kent Guardian 4 July 6/3: The dickens a one o’ the like o’ Mrs Adams [...] ud ate the same Queen [...] just as soon as a Portagee would.at Portagee, n.
West Kent Guardian 28 Mar. 8/1: A Unitarian [...] of considerable notoriety as a ‘rigler’ scrape-all in parish affairs.at scrape-all (n.) under scrape, v.
West Kent Guardian 4 July 6/3: ‘Popish tongue,’ says she, squarrin’ at me.at square up, v.1
W. Kent Guardian 23 Jan. 2/4: Our guns in a crack or two forced the Celestial to [etc.].at celestial, n.
W. Kent Guardian 23 Jan. 2/4: We’ve take the shine / Out of poor Johnny Chinaman’s Father.at John Chinaman, n.
W. Kent Guardian 17 Apr. 6/4: The ‘putter up,’ who gave information of the booty [...] has got off scathless.at putter-up, n.
West Kent Guardian 25 Nov. 6/1: Tom and Jerryism — Thomas casey [...] was charged by the police with stealing a door knocker about one o’clock in the morning .at tom-and-jerryism (n.) under tom and jerry, n.1
W. Kent Guardian 16 Mar. 8/1: The great increase of bum-boats on the river for the sale of beer, liquors, and purl, among the seamen.at bum-boat, n.
West Kent Guardian 23 Nov. 6/2: I suppose he thought as I was an Irishman he could come the old soldier over me.at come the old soldier (v.) under come the..., v.
West Kent Guardian 13 jan. 3/4: ‘On the Shelf’ at Twenty-Five! [...] An unmarried lady who has passed her 25th year is considered an old maid.at on the shelf under shelf, n.2
W. Kent Guardian 26 Oct. 4/1: The guttlers’ waste butt [...] familiar with the customs of the ‘tap.’ His language smacks of pewter.at waste-butt (n.) under waste, n.
W. Kent Guardian 14 Apr. 7/3: I observe that he does not wait for the old cathedral clock [...] and proclaims the time in a churchyard cough.at churchyard cough (n.) under churchyard, n.
West Kent Guardian 29 Apr. 6/4: She obtained her livelihood by means of what is termed ‘charring,’ that is, going out to work by the day house-cleaning.at char, v.
W. Kent Guardian 6 Jan. 6/3: Brien started up and said, ‘God damn it, where is your money’.at god-damn it!, excl.
West Kent Guardian 15 Feb. 4/4: I’ll be gaul-darned if I dew [...] till I’ve got my breakfuss!at goldarned, adj.
West Kent Guardian 15 Feb. 4/4: A Yankee Trick on a Hoosier Landlord. In a quiet little Ohio village [etc.].at hoosier, adj.
W. Kent Guardian 15 Feb. 4/4: I’m rotten glad to sew yew.at rotten, adv.
West Kent Guardian 19 Mar. 3/6: The herring is a delicate fish [...] hence the proverb ‘as dead as a herring’.at dead as..., adj.
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