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(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 152: I developed my own masculine slanguage. ‘’Arf a mo’ cocky.’.at half a mo, n.1
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 152: I developed my own masculine slanguage. ‘’Arf a mo’ cocky.’. (con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 104: If they give you the bird, you whistle back at them.at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
(con. 1880) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 204: Acting as if he were in a blood tub off the Old Kent Road.at blood tub (n.) under blood, n.1
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 74: This really takes the bun.at take the bun, v.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 56: The bustle. The bunce. The money.at bunce, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 102: He started as a busker.at busker, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 56: The bustle. The bunce. The money.at bustle, n.1
(con. 1880) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 57: The death of such a chicken would cause no great stir in the world.at chicken, n.
(con. 1880) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 27: Why, little chicken, you must have performed a nice bit of business to become so dusty.at chicken, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 152: ’Arf a mo’, cocky.at cocky, n.1
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 177: It was that cow Aveline.at cow, n.1
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 175: So I spit on all your prayers / Damn your eyes.at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 78: She’s got the dial for it.at dial, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 77: What about diggings, Lizzie?at diggings, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 81: She [...] came back with a bag of monkey nuts and a bottle of lemon fizz.at fizz, n.1
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 152: I used to gag them by marching across the stage with a banner saying ‘Temporary Fire Curtain’.at gag, v.
(con. 1870s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 172: The two comedians were ‘gagging’ one another and delivering lines extempore.at gag, v.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 78: She might make a good gagger.at gagger, n.1
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 152: That always got them going.at get going, v.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 54: The comedian-caroller who had sung ‘The Whole Hog or None.’.at whole hog, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 106: I used to kill them with ‘I Don’t Suppose He’ll Do It Again for Months and Months and Months’. I never saw the dirt in it, not me.at it, n.1
(con. 1880) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 207: What I want you to do now is have a little sleep. You’re all knocked out.at knocked out, adj.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 75: It’s not all lavender.at lavender, n.
(con. 1880) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 135: Mrs Irving was afraid that they would, in the phrase of the period, ‘shoot the moon’ and cheat her by absconding after dark.at shoot the moon (v.) under moon, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 20: She walked slowly past the river bank where the rats and the ‘mud-larks’ went about their work.at mudlark, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 174: I was asked to have ‘a top of reeb’ instead of a pot of beer.at top o’ reeb, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 82: Is it Effs tonight [...] or the Old Mo?at Old Mo (n.) under old, adj.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 183: Sit down and rest your pegs.at peg, n.1
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 104: All pudding. Easy as you like.at pudding, n.
(con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 54: He saw me staring, I think, and tipped me a wink.at tip, v.3
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