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Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 12 Oct. 2/3: The old blister had got to be unbearable.at blister, n.1
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 12 Oct. 2/3: The old blister had got to be unbearable. Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 22 June 2/5: Defendant [...] requested the officers to interfere; when they refused he threatened to go and see their ‘super’.at super, n.1
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 22 June 2/5: The defendant’s housekeeper struck her, and said rather than she would return she would live tally with him.at live tally (v.) under tally, n.1
Daily Gaz. for Middlesborough 13 Feb. 3/6: Foul were the roads, and fou’ the dubs, [...] A’ clatty.at clatty, adj.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 16 June 3/1: He is considered a ‘blackleg’. The strike has caused a serious interruption.at blackleg, n.2
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 19 Nov. 3/2: The public [...] sold ‘liquid damnation’ at threepence a glass.at liquid damnation (n.) under liquid, adj.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 24 Dec. 3/1: On Sticking To it. [...] that kind of thing [...] comes by pegging away.at stick to, v.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 19 July 4/2: He [...] told me to ‘shut my face, or he would knock half my b—y snout off’.at shut one’s face (v.) under face, n.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 4 Oct. 4/4: When witness remarked that it was a fair ‘cop’ Mrs Peacock appeared very much flurried.at fair cop, n.
Daily Gaz. for Middlesborough 30 June 4/1: The prisoner [...] pulled the ‘knight of the spigot’s whiskers .at ...the spigot under knight of the..., n.
Daily Gaz. for Middlesborough 21 July 5/6: A branch of the mosking business is to dispose of the pawn tickets [...] briefs my man called them.at mosk, v.
Daily Gaz. for Middlesborough 21 July 5/6: A pair of old-fashioned diamond shoe buckles trusted to me for ‘mosking,’ four pun’ five being the price set on ’em.at mosk, v.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 21 July 5/5: Within the limits of the metropolis there are at least a score of the ‘mosker’ tribe.at mosker, n.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 21 July 5/5: Finally she puts in a scorcher [...] she palms off on the shopman [...] a spurious article of jewellery [...] and clears as much, perhaps, as a couple or three pounds.at scorcher, n.
Daily Gaz. for Middlesborough 25 June 3/3: He took to ‘calf-sticking’ [...] the putting off of worthless rubbish, on the pretence that it was smuggled goods, on any foolish or unsuspecting person [...] Tom’s ingenuity in the ‘calf-sticking’ line of business had enabled him to dispose of four-and-twenty boxes of cigars at 10s 6d.at calf-sticking (n.) under calf, n.1
Daily Gaz. for Middlesborough 25 June 3/3: ‘Why, dash my eyes, Billy,’ he says swearing.at dash, v.1
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 6 Nov. 3/4: Twenty-seven of us in one room, most of us dirty [...] Then the ‘flats’ and ‘chits’ [...] Suffice it to say that they were at (sic) work, and I was awake the whole night through.at flat back, n.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 2 Feb. 3/4: There is no doubt that a Bishop could go to heaven, even in a fifty-shilling draught-board pattern suit!at draught-board suit, n.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough Aug. 18 3/2: He went into town [...] found a ruined gamester who wished to dispose of his fast mare and fashionable dog-cart [...] the affluent ‘brief-snatcher’ bought it there and then .at brief-snatcher (n.) under brief, n.1
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough Aug. 18 3/2: His usual line of business was ‘brief-snatching,’ i.e., hovering about the crowd that surrounds a small bookmaker, and snatching from the hands of the unwary the credential they with rash eagerness exhibit, and which they desire to exchange with the man they have bet with for their winnings .at brief-snatcher (n.) under brief, n.1
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 6 Nov. 3/4: Twenty-seven of us in one room, most of us dirty [...] Then the ‘flats’ and ‘chits’ [...] Suffice it to say that they were at (sic) work, and I was awake the whole night through.at chats, n.2
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 6 Nov. 3/4: Looking for a doss, old pals? ’Cos if you are yer won’t get a better kip in the smoke than at Johnny’s-down-the-steps.at kip, n.1
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 6 Nov. 3/4: We stopped to look at another [lodging] house [...] the proprietor of which volunteered [...] that he was ‘full up’. ‘Not a bloomin’ kipsie (bed) to be had’.at kipsie, n.2
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 20 Aug. 3/2: The veriest dregs of the race-course-cheating rabble [...] the purse-trick man being no exception.at purse-trick man (n.) under purse, n.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 29 Aug. 3/5: All the fakes and dodges that enabled a man to get rid of a queer lot from Billingsgate at a spanking profit.at queer lot (n.) under queer, adj.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 6 Nov. 3/4: ‘Will you have a drink?’ [...] ‘No thank-you; I am a teetotaler,’ she civilly replied. ‘Good heavens!’ I thought; ‘a tea-pot in this hole; it can’t be’.at teapot, n.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 8 Nov. 4/2: Nothing better than a ‘staggering bob’.at staggering bob, n.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 7 Nov. 4/2: The Bishop thought he caught the words ‘Cold Pig;’ then more giggling [...] In an instant the pillow, the bedclothes and the Bishop were drenched with cold water.at cold pig (n.) under cold, adj.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 8 June 4/3: Of all the Jubilee jackassdom [...] a piece of Jumping Jubilee Jehosaphatism down at Ealing must take the cake.at jumping Jehoshaphat!, excl.
Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 6 Apr. 4/4: ‘Stuff!’ said he; ‘it was a trick we played you, that’s all’.at stuff!, excl.
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