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[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 23 Sept. 4/2: Origin of the present fashionable word Quoz. [...] They saw[that] the passengers were none of the common sort of men, they asked very exorbitant prices for bringing them and their baggage on shore [...] upon which the Frenchmen [...] sent the general cry of ‘Qui, quoi, quoi, ’ (in English, ‘What, what, what.!) The pilots immediately cried out, ‘Damn your Quoz, quoz, quoz, speak that we may understand you and don’t bore us with your Parley vous and Quoz’.
at quoz!, excl.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 4 Aug. 2/2: Duel. — In consequence of the dispute between [...] a journeymman printer and a hackney writer [...] the knight of the quill [...] directed his second [...] to load both pistols.
at ...the quill under knight of the..., n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 4 Aug. 2/2: A hearty breakfast [...] eventually cured the quill-driver’s supposed wounds.
at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 15 Nov. 2/3: A fraudulent trick, somewhat similar to the London art of Ring-dropping, was attempted.
at ring dropping, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 25 Mar. 2/1: On Friday evening last a man went to the Half Moon Inn [...] and having run up a score of 4s [...] made his escape.
at run up a score (v.) under score, n.3
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 29 Mar. 2/2: [T]he plaintiff had first insulted the defendant by calling him ‘Ginger- bread Jack,’ or ‘Slip-gibbet’.
at slip-gibbet (n.) under slip, v.2
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 24 Dec. 2/5: The poachers took out of their pockets their rattle-traps (instruments made similar to the flail,) with these they knocked down the keepers [...] and one of them had his leg broken.
at rattletrap, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 5 Feb. 2/3: To fill our skins is surely to take good care of ourselves. Then drink, boys, drink!
at fill one’s skin (v.) under skin, n.1
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 15 Apr. 1/6: I am the sort of chap (said Brother Bolus) To cure complaints and give the heart a solace.
at brother of the bolus (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 23 Dec. 8/3: Who Killed Cock-sparrow? ‘I,’ said three men of Crawley, / ‘With my club in my mawley’.
at mauley, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 11 Apr. 5/6: The donkey and a sow were kept together, and the sow turned up [...] ‘obstropolous’ and let the donkey out.
at obstropolous, adj.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 15 May 2/6: Bull and Frenchy (as we called him) and even old Nicks, who has an awful bully himself, [...] said it was a shame.
at Frenchie, n.1
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 15 May 2/6: He was always a jolly good tuck-in.
at tuck-in, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 15 May 2/6: Florence was singing and playing the fool and tucking into tarts.
at tuck in, v.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 15 May 2/6: At Europa Academy the greatest bully was Kraut. Kraut and Wurst were cousins, two of the biggest fellows in the school.
at kraut, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 15 May 2/6: He flared up in an instant, and came squaring at old Wurst.
at square up, v.1
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 24 Nov. 8/2: The Coronation Oath reminds me of the way in which our grandfathers [...] used to be sworn at Highgate. The burly host of the inn [...] administered an oath with a saving clause, to this effect — ‘Will you swear that you will not drink sherry when you can get port — unless you like it better?’.
at sworn at Highgate, phr.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 23 Nov. 8/2: deceased [...] challenged Turner to fight, saying he ‘would darken his daylights’.
at darken someone’s daylights (v.) under daylights, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 22 Aug. 8/2: Henry Bray, alias ‘Bluey’, [was] charged by Inspector Barnard with obstructing the footway.
at bluey, n.1
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 25 Dec. 6/2: This sequestered glen has long been known by the name of ‘Sleepy Hollow’.
at Sleepy Hollow, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 26 Jan. 8/5: Easy does it, and fudgin’s no crime. Ain’t it scrumptious to watch ’ow they boggle and sniff?
at boggle, v.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 21 Dec. 4/7: An ‘Essex lion’ is a calf, just as a ‘Cotswold lion’ is a sheep’.
at Cotswold lion, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 26 Jan. 8/5: Easy does it, and fudgin’s no crime. Ain’t it scrumptious to watch ’ow they boggle and sniff?
at easy does it under easy, adj.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 21 Dec. 4/7: An ‘Essex lion’ is a calf, just as a ‘Cotswold lion’ is a sheep’.
at Essex lion (n.) under Essex, adj.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 27 Oct. 6/4: You great fat-headed, swill-headed, fat-gutted —.
at fat-gutted (adj.) under fat, adj.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 27 Jan. 3/5: ‘I can’t go glimming, I ain’t the cheek.’ ‘Glimming?’ ‘Opening kerridge doors, guvnor’.
at glimming, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 27 Oct. 6/4: You great fat-headed, swill-headed, fat-gutted —.
at swill-headed (adj.) under swill, n.
[UK] Bury & Norwich Post 1 Jan. 5/3: They set to work in Taffyland and stirred up strife.
at Taffyland (n.) under Taffy, n.
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