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New Sporting Mag. Nov. 39/2: I recommend Mr Wilson to translate him [i.e. a horse named Argent] into plain English Silver, for horses of this genius are always best in Button Park.at button park (n.) under button, n.1
New Sporting Mag. Nov. 39/2: I recommend Mr Wilson to translate him [i.e. a horse named Argent] into plain English Silver, for horses of this genius are always best in Button Park. New Sporting Mag. May 120/2: The old one, of ‘There you go with your eye out,’ originated at one of the police offices.at there you go with your eye out under eye, n.
New Sporting Mag. May 476: Flare-up is backed for about a thousand pounds.at flare up!, excl.
New Sporting Mag. Nov. 32: There were a few half-roasted looking legs, with their greasy betting books in their hands [...] a few rippish looking horse-dealers, two or three nondescript gentlemen.at rippish (adj.) under rip, n.1
New Sporting Mag. Oct. 409/1: Mr Slater, the huckster, got blazing drunk.at blazing, adv.
New Sporting Mag. June 89/2: After the race there was the usually popping of Champagne-corks, broaching of beer, eating of sandwiches, beating of drums, [...] tumbling, juggling, thimble-rigging, gambling, &c &c.at thimble-rig, v.
New Sporting Mag. May 14: I feared he might want it for the purpose of inflicting summary punishment on his ‘gammonacious’ friend of the previous evening.at gammonacious (adj.) under gammon, n.2
New Sporting Mag. Sept. 149: But that’s another pair of shoes, as we say in France, and I'll vip off, and talk to you about what consarnsus more closely .at that’s another pair of shoes under shoe, n.
New Sporting Mag. Mar. 218: then comes the doubt as to whether the Derby winner will follow the example of so many predecessors, and fail to come the artful dodge over ‘Canny Yorkshire’.at come the artful (dodge) (v.) under come the..., v.
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 398: He [i.e. a boar] was divided into portions, and despatched piecemeal in presents to the ladies and burrah sahibs.at burra sahib (n.) under burra, adj.
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 9: The vulgar cit could not be the highly talened Nimrod.at cit, n.
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 397: Without waiting for a result I ‘cut off’ with all possible haste to the jungle.at cut, v.2
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 44: He may go to Almack’s with her, and dangle after her to the Opera.at dangle, v.
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 394: ‘Duck’ A species of the foregoing animal, but indigenous to Bombay, in general very harmless, receving its title from a fish of that name, to be found in Bombay and constituting the principal food of the said animals.at duck, n.3
New Sporting Mag. (London) July 2: ‘Holloa, Tom,’ [...] said our young Irishman [...] I hope we may cross the Thames today.’ ‘Why?’ asked the other. ‘Because,’ responded the Emeralder [etc.] .at Emeralder, n.
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 394: ‘Qui hye’ An animal of the genus homo, peculiar to Bengal, whose principal food consists of curry and pale ale, and whose principal characteristic is a thorough contempt for ‘Ducks’ and ‘Mulls’ .at qui-hi, n.
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 29: Short stages used to be considered as infra dig. by the regular knights of the whip.at ...the whip under knight of the..., n.
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 394: ‘Mull’ An ‘owdacious’ never-to-be satisfied denizen of Madras, a deadly rival to the ‘Qui-hyes,’ and always wanting to enter into competition with them on the turf, in the chase, or the jungle. NB — Very partial to beer.at mull, n.1
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 395: The owner of the invaded territory getting a ‘shake down’ among the Sahib’s niggers for the night.at shakedown, n.
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 7: [to a man who has fallen into a muddy ditch] ‘Holloa, Snowball! [...] vy, you’re as black as the vhite of my eye’.at snowball, n.2
New Sporting Mag. (London) Dec. 396: [of a boar] Tally-ho! there he goes! what a whopper! as big as a donkey, by Jove!at whopper, n.
New Sporting Mag. Aug. 82: Leather Plating, under the most favourable circumstance, is far from a mirror of chivalry [...] it is a racing thimble-rig ‘ — ‘heads I won, tails you lose’.at leather-plating (n.) under leather, n.
New Sporting Mag. Mar. 213: I sing a song of Janawar, / Who terror spread both near and far; / A real tiger, fierce, and cruel, / And T—e and P—u who gave him his ‘gruel’.at give someone gruel (v.) under gruel, n.
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