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Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: There was Downy, a Turkey merchant in a small way, who had such a feeling for tusheroons that he was always changing his tanners and stags, and aldermen, into them.at alderman, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: There was Downy, a Turkey merchant in a small way, who had such a feeling for tusheroons that he was always changing his tanners and stags, and aldermen, into them. Story of a Lancashire Thief 12: A broken-down barn-stormer who used to lodge near me [...] he’d talk by the hour of bens, and surfs, and saddles, and daddies, and everything about a theatre.at barnstormer, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 12: I never heard of him [...] getting bemused on Saint Monday.at bemused (with beer), adj.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 12: A broken-down barn-stormer who used to lodge near me [...] he’d talk by the hour of bens, and surfs, and saddles, and daddies, and everything about a theatre.at ben, n.2
Story of a Lancashire Thief 8: What a lot of them there was! And all sorts, too, but divers especially. Some few had been taught in a buz-napper’s academy.at bus-napper’s academy (n.) under bus-napper, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 6: Those premises were pretty well known by the cadgers.at cadger, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 11: I’ve heard him talk slang like a professional. Once I heard him telling two chums of his about tooling his drag to the Derby; in fact he knew all about traps, and casks, and drags, and rounders.at cask, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: There was Hammer Bill, always on the look-out for what he could stow in his cly.at cly, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: If a single cossack faced him he’d upset the bobby in a jiffy.at cossack, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 8: There was this Lucky Middlesex putting the lush into him in style, and the coves about all cracking him up for a ripper.at crack up, v.1
Story of a Lancashire Thief 8: ‘I’ll have a sight of Lucky! Will you go?’ ‘Here’s my daddle on it,’ says I.at daddle, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 12: The tile-maker did a roaring trade. He’d bill the dead eyes with posters as tall as himself!at deadeye, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 10: There’s a gospel-shop in Oxford-road, and it’s a fashionable place. I’ll try my hand there while the devil-dodger is at it.at devil-dodger (n.) under devil, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 8: What a lot of them there was! And all sorts, too, but divers especially.at diver, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: There we sat, drinking just what we fancied — dog’s-nose in particular was what I liked.at dog’s nose, n.1
Story of a Lancashire Thief 8: I heard from a chum, who was fly to every move on the board, that a regular don was likely to turn up in Manchester; a swell prig who had hooked it from London to escape being slowed.at don, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 8: The little ’uns were all respect to Lucky Middlesex, of course, because he was a thorough dummacker.at dummacker, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 12: I never even heard him talk workmen’s slang; he’d never speak about flints and dungs, or fat, or elbow grease.at dung, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 12: He was never out of collar, for he made his screw meet his ex’s.at exes, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: Brummagen Joe was [...] a patterer; and he could likewise screeve a fakement with any one.at fakement, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 10: One of his best stories was about fingering Lord —’s ticker in St. George’s Church, Hanover Square.at finger, v.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 12: I never even heard him talk workmen’s slang; he’d never speak about flints and dungs, or fat, or elbow grease.at flint, n.1
Story of a Lancashire Thief 10: There’s a gospel-shop in Oxford-road.at gospel mill (n.) under gospel, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 45: I’ve had more sharp struggles than you think since I hung out at them places in Manchester.at hang out, v.1
Story of a Lancashire Thief 8: I heard from a chum, [...] that a regular don was likely to turn up in Manchester; a swell prig who had hooked it from London to escape being slowed, and maybe sent over the herring pond.at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: He had been a jigger-dubber [...] but got sacked for boozing, and then he lost himself. [Ibid.] 15: (lost himself) Went lower and lower.at lose it, v.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: I’ve spoken of Curly Bob, the Screever, and Brummagem Joe. Before Bob took to the chalks, he had been a jigger-dubber [...] but got sacked for boozing.at jigger-dubber (n.) under jigger, n.1
Story of a Lancashire Thief 8: What a lot of them there was! And all sorts, too, but divers especially [...] and there was one noted ken-cracker present.at ken-cracker (n.) under ken, n.1
Story of a Lancashire Thief 4: Aw thowt yo wor sum peeler-chap, like!at like, adv.
Story of a Lancashire Thief 11: He’d speak of a barracks as a lobster-box, and of that part of it for subalterns as the rookery.at lobster-box (n.) under lobster, n.1
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