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Letter in Works (1760) IV 183: Perverse people [...] that would not knock off in any reasonable time but liv’d long on purpose to spite their relations.at knock off, v.
Letter in Works (1760) IV 183: Perverse people [...] that would not knock off in any reasonable time but liv’d long on purpose to spite their relations. Belfast News-Letter 30 May 4/4: Mrs Matilda Smith, the better half of an industrious city porter.at better half, n.
Belfast News Letter 15 Jan. 1/4: Allan, who had bustled up from a barber’s shop into a bookseller’s, was a ‘cunning shaver’.at cunning shaver (n.) under cunning, adj.
Belfast News-Letter 30 Jan. 4/3: ‘Od! James [...] I dare say, if the moon was to fall [...] ye would say no more than “It’s gey and queerish”’.at od, n.
Belfast News-Letter 31 July 4/4: Death of the Rev. Joseph Wood [...] the celebrated ‘couple-beggar’.at couple-beggar, n.
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/1: The body-snatchers they have come [...] It’s very hard those kind of men. Won’t let a body be.at body-snatcher, n.
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/2: James an me were so tickled with Cursecowl’s wild, outrageous [...] humersome way of telling his crack.at crack, n.1
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/2: Cursecowl swashed the rest of the raw creature into the tankard.at creature, the, n.
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/1: You thought that I was buried deep, / Quite decent like.at decent, adv.
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/1: By way of shewing you the road to the door, perhaps Master Sneck-drawer.at sneck drawer, n.
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/2: Cursecowl insisted our meeting should not be a dry one.at dry, adj.1
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/1: I don’t half like the outside place.at not half, phr.
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/1: But if ye show any symptom of obstrapulosity I’ll find myself [...] publishing you abroad to the world for what you are.at obstrapulosity (n.) under obstropolous, adj.
Belfast News-Letter 2 Jan. 4/2: ‘That’s a quare question for your honour to be after axing me’.at quare, adj.
Belfast News Letter 10 June 4/1: The Detrimental [...] I’m only twenty-four; / My ringlets have a natural curl; / I’m nearly six feet one; / My father is a Noble Earl:- / But I’m his youngest son.at detrimental, n.
Belfast News Ltr 4 Feb. 4/1: Why, be gorra, I seen Andy Murtagh there givin’ him the lick [...] that kilt him.at begorra!, excl.
Belfast News Ltr 4 Feb. 4/2: How could a pross-sarver be a rogue, you dirty savage?at dirty, adj.
Belfast News Letter 4 Feb. 4/1: He gives the bag a heave, when — hookey! who’d believe? He tumbled in.at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
Belfast News Ltr 4 Feb. 4/2: By the holy farmer, Mr Casey, you’re fairly done!at by the holy! (excl.) under holy, n.
Belfast News Ltr 4 Feb. 4/1: Carleton must be far more careful [...] else principal and interest will son go to Jericho.at go to Jericho (v.) under Jericho, n.
Belfast News Ltr 4 Feb. 4/1: Get out, you nager [...] I’ll lay you the heels before night, plase [sic] God.at nigger, n.1
Belfast News Ltr 4 Feb. 4/2: Barney Bradley, you aumodhawn".at omadhaun, n.
Belfast News Ltr 4 Feb. 4/2: No Sir; but you are swearin’ it, so I’ll have no shufflin’ [i.e. under oath].at shuffle, v.
Belfast News Letter 20 Jan. 2/1: The prisoner struck at him, saying, ‘I’m blowed if I an’t able for you, at any rate’.at blowed, adj.1
Belfast News Letter 14 Aug. 2/4: It will also require no ordinary influence to keep the ‘daughters of Erin’ from the ‘scandal broth’ as the London coves designate it.at scandal-broth, n.
Belfast News Letter 2 Oct. 1/6: The smith and thee got roaring fou.at roaring fou, adj.
Belfast News Letter 23 Dec. 1/1: ‘Brian O’Lynn, the ditty, has for ages been current in Ireland, a favourite school-boy exercise.at Brian O’Linn, n.
Belfast News-Letter 22 Nov. 3/2: How far Mr Tennent may be inclined to take care of number one, I cannot say.at take care of number one, v.
Belfast News-Letter 26 Oct. 4/1: I must make bould to say that you fobbed many a fair pound of our money, before you ever laid your eye upon this ‘red herring’.at red herring (n.) under red, adj.
Belfast News-Letter 24 Oct. 4/1: He produced [...] one of these desperate weapons denominated ‘skull-crackers’.at skull-cracker (n.) under skull, n.1
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