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[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Bing avast, there, my merry men; bing avast there, and leave us together.
at bing a waste, v.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 23: Round this table were seated the choice spirits of London — the highwaymen, the mufflers, the area sneaks, the prigging princes, the gonophs, the magsmen, and the fences of the day.
at area-sneak, n.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: I bear a message to King Cly-faker, to Prince Crib-cracker — in a word, to Blueacre!
at cly-faker (n.) under cly, n.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough Our Miscellany 28: I bear a message to King Cly-faker, to Prince Crib-cracker — in a word, to Blueacre !
at crib-cracker (n.) under crib, n.1
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 27: ‘He's a rank scamp,’ said one — a gentleman sitting near to the chairman. ‘A wicked dummy hunter,’ said a second. ‘A fly mizzler!’ said a third.
at dummy-hunter (n.) under dummy, n.2
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough Our Miscellany 21: Fibbing culls, Common-garden hoskins, / Prigs, milling coves, and country joskins.
at fibbing cull (n.) under fibbing, n.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 27: ‘He's a rank scamp,’ said one — a gentleman sitting near to the chairman. ‘A wicked dummy hunter,’ said a second. ‘A fly mizzler!’ said a third.
at fly mizzler (n.) under fly, adj.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at high pad (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 26: Where is D'Olyndais, where the high tobyman lounged elbow to elbow with the peer of the realm.
at high-toby man (n.) under high-toby, n.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at jackman, n.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: I bear a private message to the downiest of downy birds, the rummest of rum padders, the leariest of leary coves.
at leary cove (n.) under leery, adj.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at low pad (n.) under low, adj.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 23: Round this table were seated the choice spirits of London — the highwaymen, the mufflers, the area sneaks, the prigging princes, the gonophs, the magsmen, and the fences of the day.
at magsman, n.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 21: Fibbing culls, Common-garden hoskins, / Prigs, milling coves, and country joskins.
at milling-cove (n.) under milling, n.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at needy mizzler, n.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 23: Round this table were seated the choice spirits of London — the highwaymen, the mufflers, the area sneaks, the prigging princes, the gonophs, the magsmen, and the fences of the day.
at muffler, n.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 17: Here’s a drop of right Nantz drink, ’twill revive you.
at nantz, n.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 8: Tom Doland [...] in high spirits after a slight morning’s work of five-and-forty rounds in the gloves with the Bolton Nobbler.
at nobbler, n.1
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at palliard, n.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: ‘And now,’ said the latter, ‘now that all’s plummy and slam, let’s have your jaw’.
at plummy, adj.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at prigger, n.1
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at queer gill (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: ‘What is the queer cull’s business here?’ asked the rich-toned voice of Blueacre.
at queer cull (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 27: ‘He's a rank scamp,’ said one — a gentleman sitting near to the chairman. ‘A wicked dummy hunter,’ said a second. ‘A fly mizzler!’ said a third.
at rank, adj.2
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at arch-rogue (n.) under rogue, n.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
at rum gill (n.) under rum, adj.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: I bear a private message to the downiest of downy birds, the rummest of rum padders, the leariest of leary coves.
at rum padder (n.) under rum, adj.
[UK] ‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 27: ‘He's a rank scamp,’ said one — a gentleman sitting near to the chairman. ‘A wicked dummy hunter,’ said a second. ‘A fly mizzler!’ said a third.
at scamp, n.
[UK] ‘A Harrassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds.) Our Miscellany 23: Smiling Sammy, a ‘queer cuffin,’ who had taken more vipes, fogies, tickers, sneezing-traps, and readers, than any man of his day.
at sneezing-trap, n.
[UK] ‘Albert Smiff’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 165: [note] ‘The Spout’ is an institution unknown in France. It is supposed that the present enterprising Emperor will introduce it among his numerous improvements.
at spout, n.2
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