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Luton Times 24 Apr. 8/5: Cave, adsam; you understand me, / Drop them, abandon blague and cant, / And tell me plainly what you want.at blag, n.
Luton Times 24 Apr. 8/5: Cave, adsam; you understand me, / Drop them, abandon blague and cant, / And tell me plainly what you want. Luton Times 24 Apr. 8/5: Cave, adsam; you understand me, / Drop them, abandon blague and cant, / And tell me plainly what you want.at cave!, excl.
Luton Times 4 Dec. 5/2: One these pugnacious gentlemen ‘landed him one’ on the ‘bread basket,’ and doubled him up like a twig.at land, v.
Luton Times 22 Feb. 2/4: A young man from the country [...] asks what part of the Strand the girl called ‘Nancy’ resides; [...] which would puzzle a barber’s clerk to answer.at barber’s clerk (n.) under barber, n.1
Luton Times 29 July 3/5: Not liking work, our artist went / With cat-gut scraper, on buskin’ bent.at catgut-scraper (n.) under catgut, n.1
Luton Times 29 July 3/5: Our artist now in different style i seen — / A Shylock — mobney-lender, or what you mean.at shylock, n.
Luton Times 7 Sept. 2/7: ‘I schemlandamourtchwager you’ is said to be, so far as the jawbreaker is concerned, American indian for ‘ love you’.at jawbreaker, n.
Luton Times 14 Aug. 5/4: ‘Please the Pigs’ — A good house to let, with accomodation for pigs.at an’t please the pigs, phr.
Luton Times 25 Sept. 4/4: Music, light, and colour, lend their enchantment [...] all is ‘gas and gaiters’.at all (is) gas and gaiters under gas, n.1
Luton Times 25 Nov. 5/4: Not the Ninth Part of a Man. Charles Foster tailor [...] was charged with destroying clothes while an inmate of the Luton Workhouse.at ninth part of a man, n.
Luton Times 7 Oct. 8/3: The captain called out, ‘ouse that glim’ — and out went the candle.at douse the glim (v.) under glim, n.
Luton Times 12 July 7/5: Beanbelly , Leicestershire [...] ‘Shake a Leicester yeoman by the collar, and you’ll hear the beans rattle in his belly’.at beanbelly, n.1
Luton Times 29 Mar. 6/2: He had got lots of ‘quids’ and ‘tin’, having fallen over a ‘mahogany flat,’ who was ‘blooming tight’ [...] and who he had walked up and down the garden and ‘bellowsed’ him.at bellows, v.
Luton Times 12 July 7/4: Cambridgeshire — ‘Cambridge Camels’.at Cambridgeshire camel (n.) under Cambridge, adj.
Luton Times 12 July 7/5: Middlesex — ‘A Middlesex clown’.at Middlesex clown, n.
Luton Times 12 July 7/5: ‘As valiant as an Essex lion’ — a calf.at Essex lion (n.) under Essex, adj.
Luton Times 12 July 7/5: ‘Hertfordshire kindness’ (may prove ‘Hertfordshire cruelty’).at Hertfordshire kindness, n.
Luton Times 29 Mar. 6/2: He had got lots of ‘quids’ and ‘tin’, having fallen over a ‘mahogany flat,’ who was ‘blooming tight’ [...] and who he had walked up and down the garden and ‘bellowsed’ him.at mahogany flat (n.) under mahogany, n.
Luton Times 12 July 7/5: Wiltshire — ‘Wiltshire moonrakers’.at moon-raker, n.
Luton Times 12 July 7/5: Norfolk — ‘A Norfolk dumpling’.at Norfolk dumpling (n.) under Norfolk, adj.
Luton Times 29 Mar. 6/2: He said he had taken the prosecutor’s ‘super and slang’.at s(o)uper and slang (n.) under super, n.2
Luton Times 5 Dec. 7/6: ‘That beats the Dutch,’ as the Teutonic hotel-keeper said when one of his guests left [...] forgetting to pay his bill.at beat the Dutch, v.
Luton Times 20 Apr. 6/1: A policy which been described by an able political writer [...] as a policy of boggle.at boggle, n.
Luton Times 1 Nov. 5/4: He appealled to the Town Council [...] to remember those trusty allies [...] with whom they had so profictably sat in conflab.at conflab, n.
Luton Times 22 Feb. 3/5: Boys require rest and recreation, and you have debarred him from getting this by nigger-driving him.at nigger-driving (adj.) under nigger-driver, n.
Luton Times 11 Aug. 2/3: ‘I cannot help it, my lord,’ replied the knight of the pencil. ‘My report was despatched by telegraph some hours ago’.at ...the pencil under knight of the..., n.
Luton Times 8 Nov. 3/2: In the kitchens I found the character of the lodgers to be of the usual Doss-house or ‘paddng ken’ order.at padding ken (n.) under pad, v.1
Luton Times 5 July 7/2: A cyclist [...] charged into a lady cyclist and seriously injured her, behaving [in] the way in which they would expect [...] ‘cads on castors’ to act.at cads on castors (n.) under cad, n.1
Luton Times 24 Apr. 6/7: She told the defendant to leave the shop [...] he replied that he could ‘callee’ (fight), and would not leave for fifty d— policemen.at call (out) (v.) under call, v.
Luton Times 24 Apr. 6/7: When he saw the knife he said, ‘I’ll have this chivvy,’ and put it in his pocket.at chiv, n.1
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