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Worcs Chron. 6 Sept. 2/2: He thought a gentle rubbing down with an oaken towel would be effectual in calming the overflow of bounce.at bounce, n.1
Worcs Chron. 6 Sept. 2/2: He thought a gentle rubbing down with an oaken towel would be effectual in calming the overflow of bounce. Worcs. Chron. 15 Nov. 2/1: Mother and daughter were charged [...] with drunkenness and disorderly conduct; the latter with aiding [...] her honoured parent to kick up a breeze.at kick up a breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
Worcs. Chron. 15 Nov. 2/1: The mother was stated to be a constant frequenter of a certain Hash-house in Broad-street.at hash-house, n.
Worcs Chron. 24 May 2/3: His brother William, a spare, shotten-herring figure, with jaws like nutcrackers.at shotten herring, n.
Worcs Chron. 6 Sept. 2/2: He thought a gentle rubbing down with an oaken towel would be effectual in calming the overflow of bounce.at oaken towel, n.
Worcs. Chron. 4 Aug. 2/1: [as 1802].at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
Worcs. Chron. 12 May 3/2: George Jones was captured [...] diving his pickers and stealers, alias his nimble fingers, into a farmer’s pocket.at pickers and stealers, n.
Worcs. Chron. 18 Aug. 4/1: A mock modest young widow for Eve-sham [...] Two ‘swipey’ young brimstones for Malton.at brimstone, n.
Worcs. Chron. 10 Nov. 2/4: [H]e felt ,quite certain that they would every one feel a high degree of pleasure bumpering and drinking with honors justly due, the health of Mr. Price.at bumper, v.1
Worcs. Chron. 8 Sept. 3/2: Thomas Hurst, Esq., in the black and dismal line, vulgo, a flue-faker.at flue-faker (n.) under flue, n.1
Worcs. Chron. 11 Aug. 3/1: The two papers were produced. They were different dialects, or descriptions of slang language [...] In one of them the gold eye-glasses were called ‘norah owlers,’ the other ‘ridge quiz.’ ‘Ridge’ was stated to mean gold, and ‘norah’ also signified gold. ‘Wedge’ in one paper, and ‘plato’ in the other, were slated to signify silver. The telescopes were called ‘spicy minge.’ .at norah, adj.
Worcs. Chron. 11 Aug. 3/1: The two papers were produced. They were different dialects, or descriptions of slang language [...] In one of them the gold eye-glasses were called ‘norah owlers,’ the other ‘ridge quiz.’ ‘Ridge’ was stated to mean gold, and ‘norah’ also signified gold .at quiz, n.
Worcs. Chron. 18 Aug. 4/1: A mock modest young widow for Eve-sham [...] Two ‘swipey’ young brimstones for Malton.at swipey, adj.
Worcs. Chron. 19 Jan. 4/4: [spoken by a black servant to a Frenchman] ‘Go you France nigger, go bury yourself [...] you ole nigger’.at nigger, n.1
Worcs. Chron. 4 Nov. 4/4: Not forgetting an abundance of that favourite compound known in the trade as ‘cobbler’s punch’.at cobbler’s punch (n.) under cobbler, n.1
Worcs. Chron. 23 Sept. 8/4: Pooh! nonsense, man; it’s nothing but the mulligrubs.at mulligrubs, n.
Worcs. Chron. 24 May 4/4: The only damage done, if we except the deposit of the cow-daisy [...] was the breaking of a garden engine.at cow daisy (n.) under cow, n.1
Worcs. Chron. 14 June 8/4: Nothing but a little of what is vulgarly called slack-jaw occurred to disturb the harmony of the evening.at slack-jaw (n.) under slack, n.1
Worcs. Chron. 13 Mar. 6/4: Why, I’m blessed if he don’t mean old yellow-belly my fayther.at yellow belly, n.
Worcs. Chron. 13 Oct. n.p.: A Parson Alias A Finger-Post.at finger-post (n.) under finger, n.
Worcs. Chron. 16 June 7/4: [heading] Assault by a ‘Raw Lobster,’ Not a Policeman.at raw lobster (n.) under raw, adj.
Worcs. Chron. 14 Dec. 6/2: The Blouzabellas of the highly moral penny cyclopedias of marital affairs only stop short when the last rag of decency is about to drop off.at blouzabella, n.
Worcs. Chron. 29 Mar. 8/4: I cannot believe, blunderheaded as our lawyers continually are, that they could enact a bill [etc.].at blunderhead, n.
Worcs. Chron. 18 Oct. 8/4: [I] saw Baynton pull out his purse in which there was ‘bulk of silver’.at bulk, n.2
Worcs. Chron. 18 Oct. 8/4: He told me that Baynton had got some money, and that I should be a fool if I didn’t ‘pick him up’.at pick up, v.
Worcs. Chron. 21 Mar. 6/1: I feel as mad as a meat axe, and I hope I may be darned to all darnation if I wouldn’t chaw up your ugly, mummyised corpse.at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
Worcs. Chron. 21 Mar. 6/1: I hope I may be darned to all darnation if I wouldn’t chaw up your ugly, mummyised corpse.at darnation, n.
Worcs. Chron. 3 Jan. 6/4: The Union children [...] were on Christmas day plentifully supplied with good old English fare.at Union, the, n.
Worcs. Chron. 18 Feb. 4/3: He never ordered him out of the room, but he called him a bottle-headed fool.at bottlehead (n.) under bottle, n.1
Worcs. Chron. 21 Jan. 2/7: Cookee seemed to have done her duty.at cookee, n.
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