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N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 4: Mr Barstow, usually the most punctual as well as the most beneficient of beaks.at beak, n.1
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 4: Mr Barstow, usually the most punctual as well as the most beneficient of beaks. N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 4: The passage being narrow, a large proportion either trod on my favourite corn or kicked my belltopper.at bell-topper (n.) under bell, n.1
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 1: On the occasion of a first appearance like this, it is usual, I am told, to put forward one of those delectable effusions of ‘blarney’ and ‘blatheum’ known as an inaugural address.at blarney, n.1
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 19/2: Wich is wot Sally Grundy she axes /As we sit a drinkin’ Bohee.at George Bohee, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 6/1: Once let the former discover that writer is reliable, and that he doesn't crack up trashy pieces or ‘butter’ incapable performers, and they will read and be guided by his criticisms.at butter, v.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 6/1: Once let the former discover that writer is reliable, and that he doesn't crack up trashy pieces or ‘butter’ incapable performers, and they will read and be guided by his criticisms.at crack up, v.1
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 6/1: I may add that there will be no Observer ‘dead heads.’ Representatives of this jovirnal going to the play will pay for their entertainment like everyone else.at deadhead, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 19/2: An’ hain’t to be snuffed hout by Freddy / An’ ’orsewhips an’ fiddle-de-dee.at fiddledeedee, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 25 Sept. 15/2: Albert Cellier [...] swears he wrote three of the principal airs in ‘Pinafore’. [Arthur] Sullivan has not answered the charge, which looks fishy.at fishy, adj.2
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 25 Sept. 14/2: Louise Pomeroy [...] is an American actress of no particular repute. She will probably be as big a ‘frost’ as jane Coombes unless Alf. Hayman finds some way of working the oracle.at frost, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 17/1: I take this early opportunity of wishing Sir Arthur the luck of ‘striking it heavy’.at heavy, adv.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 18/1: Occasionally the Newton larrikins gain admittance [to a Mormon meeting] and then the fun ‘grows fast and furious’.at larrikin, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 3: That worthy ‘medico,’ Dr. Beaney, of Melbourne, is resorting to advertising again I see.at medico, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 17/2: Moses! how much more can you drink.at Moses!, excl.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 25 Sept. 11/4: I thank you for my phiz, / Also for dubbing me a poet.at phiz, n.1
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 25 Sept. 14/2: That old rip [...] it appears, deserted his own wife [...] and went off with Annie Firmin.at rip, n.1
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 25 Sept. 9/3: What a lot of ‘side’ the amateur scientists put on.at side, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 6: When a play gets severely ‘slated’ people may go to the theatre to see what it is like, but the review of a friend who wishes to say kind things, but cannot, is terribly damaging.at slate, v.1
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 19/2: An’ onct were considered a booty / Wen the spoonies come sparkin’ around .at spark, v.1
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 19/2: An’ onct were considered a booty / Wen the spoonies come sparkin’ around .at spoony, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 6/1: Owen Westford, whom I had previously thought a most ponderous ‘stick,’ played ‘Barney’ [...] uncommonly well.at stick, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 19/2: An' now haint by no means so dusty / W’en I togs myself hout in fal-lal .at tog up, v.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 18 Sept. 3: The ‘Morning Twaddler’ has dared to snub Mr. John Roly Polybank King, and yet the heavens haven't fallen! Moreover, the ‘Twaddler’ is still published!at twaddle, v.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 17/3: I should imagine that one of our local celebrities has been ‘on the wallabi’ recently, as the following story comes from abroad.at on the wallaby under wallaby, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 25 Sept. 14/2: Louise Pomeroy [...] is an American actress of no particular repute. She will probably be as big a ‘frost’ as jane Coombes unless Alf. Hayman finds some way of working the oracle.at work the oracle (v.) under work, v.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 5 Feb. 207/2: Away went firemen, and away went all the tag-rag and bobtail.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 29 Jan. 193/2: Oh, ye Gods and little fishes, how many more classes of society are we going to have in Onehunga?at ye gods (and little fishes)!, excl.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 29 Jan. 195/2: He had been smoking in the parlour and spoilt the new lace curtains his better half had just put up.at better half, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 22 Jan. 182/1: Would Mr. Wilson like another billet as - musical companion?at billet, n.
N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 5 Feb. 207/4: Some days ago, the wife of a Queen-street tradesman died and two jolly Bonifaces, Messrs. H. and E. determined (as the deceased’s husband was a friend of theirs) to attend the funeral.at boniface, n.
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