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Broadway Belle (NY) 26 Feb. n.p.: If such is the case, she can brave the storm and come off A. No. 1.at A-1, adv.
Broadway Belle (NY) 26 Feb. n.p.: If such is the case, she can brave the storm and come off A. No. 1. Broadway Belle (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: A very airy gentleman who is married (his wife living at a distance).at airy, adj.1
Broadway Belle (NY) 10 Sept. n.p.: Broken-down politicians; Shyster lawyers; French cooks and bottle-washers.at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
Broadway Belle (NY) 29 Jan. n.p.: Goldsmith sings at free-and-easys.at free-and-easy, n.
Broadway Belle (NY) 24 Sept. n.p.: ‘Thunder and airthquakers — look at ’im!’.at thunder and lightning!, excl.
Broadway Belle (NY) 5 Mar. n.p.: By the way, is ‘Adele’ of Brooklyn, comeatable, say? at come at, v.
Broadway Belle (NY) 26 Feb. n.p.: ‘Thimble-riggers’ and ‘jokers’ she does not allow [...] she is ever ‘wide-awake’.at wide-awake, adj.
Broadway Belle (NY) 12 Mar. n.p.: ‘Be jabers [...] he owed me two dollies!’.at bejabers!, excl.
Broadway Belle (N.Y.) 29 Oct. 1/3–4: Nixey tipping the slums but sherry down the kid with my other benjamin and a slum or two, for the peck is awful quisby.at benjamin, n.1
Broadway Belle (NY) 12 Mar. n.p.: And truer still, I ‘went it blind’ / With that ’are other lady.at go it blind (v.) under blind, adv.1
Broadway Belle (NY) 24 Sept. n.p.: Wal, blister me.at blister, v.
Broadway Belle (NY) 17 Sept. n.p.: As the Orientals say, they are mere bosh — nothing.at bosh, n.1
Broadway Belle (NY) 12 Mar. n.p.: Took all the ‘brads’ and ‘slid’ away.at brad, n.1
Broadway Belle (NY) 15 Jan. n.p.: The bandit [...] palnts a stunner in the tyrant’s bread-box.at bread box (n.) under bread, n.1
Broadway Belle (NY) 15 Jan. n.p.: Our chieftain is a brick, / Ferocious, brave and funny.at brick, n.
Broadway Belle (N.Y.) 15 Oct. 4/3: A compositor employed on the Broadway Belle [...] meeting a brother chip in Broadway.at brother chip (n.) under brother, n.
Broadway Belle (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: Tom must have been [...] ‘budgey’ when he wrote it [i.e. a play script].at budgy, adj.
Broadway Belle (N.Y.) 29 Oct. 1/3–4: My knibbs has been faked by the napping cullys for being budgey, and, in default of tipping ten slums, I have been sherried in this quisby cap for ten days.at budgy, adj.
Broadway Belle (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: ‘Dinna ye ken that I’m a buffer?’.at buffer, n.3
Broadway Belle (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: The ‘Ham Guard’ was founded by Captain Jack Appleton, the Bummer King [...] This fine company — formerly known as the ‘Bummer Cadets’ — continues with full ranks.at bummer, n.2
Broadway Belle (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: The damp, unpleasant nights [have] banished the ‘gay girls’ [but] the arrival of fine, clear weather will be the signal for a return of ‘business’.at business, n.
Broadway Belle (NY) 29 Jan. n.p.: We have sat listening to his [i.e. a ‘stout parson’] buttery oratory [...] the emptiness of his words and the foul hypocrisy of hjs heart .at buttery, adj.1
Broadway Belle (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: The Grand High Cockalorum of the Five Point House of Industry.at high cockalorum, n.
Broadway Belle (NY) 26 Feb. n.p.: ‘What shall I do — where shall I go? / My coffee-bag has dropped below! / I cannot move’.at coffee-bag (n.) under coffee, n.
Broadway Belle (NY) 12 Feb. n.p.: We were sailing down Canal, when we spied a neat little craft [...] we saw her put her head to leeward and sail leisurely up the river Mercer.at craft, n.1
Broadway Belle (N.Y.) 29 Oct. 1/3–4: The crib is ruled by mokes and Micks. My health is rummy.at crib, n.1
Broadway Belle (NY) 12 Mar. n.p.: Clara Hastings has got a house in North Margin street, where countrymen are ‘done for’ at short notice.at do for, v.
Broadway Belle (NY) 22 Jan. n.p.: We are pretty well posted up in all the ‘dodges’ practiced by women of the streets.at dodge, n.
Broadway Belle (N.Y.) 22 Oct. 4/2–3: I now explained to this ‘green un’ the pocket-book drop game and [...] he left the city a wiser man.at drop game, n.
Broadway Belle (N.Y.) 29 Oct. 1/3–4: My knibbs has been faked by the napping cullys for being budgey, and, in default of tipping ten slums, I have been sherried in this quisby cap for ten days.at fake, v.1
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