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‘The Stock Jobbers Lament’ in Atkin
House Scraps
(1887)
88: O fatal Omnium, wicked was his noddle.at noddle, n.
‘The Stock Jobbers Lament’ in Atkin
House Scraps
(1887)
88: O fatal Omnium, wicked was his noddle. ‘Jack in Capel Court’ in House Scraps
(1887)
108: Then the director, Full of strange schemes [...] and sudden growing rich, / Getting a bubble reputation.at bubble, n.1
in House Scraps (1887) 154: Your Almanack has failed to make a ‘hit’.at hit, n.
in House Scraps (1887) 24: They tried to hook him, but the plot miscarried.at hook, v.1
in House Scraps (1887) 155: Or else some morning, ere the man has lunched, / The Publisher may get his pipkin punched.at pipkin, n.1
in House Scraps (1887) 25: I’ll lay you a tenner, my pippin, / You’ll repent when you’ve once got a wife.at pippin, n.
in House Scraps (1887) 24: I’ve had such a ripper from A. B. C.!at ripper, n.1
in House Scraps (1887) 25: I’ll lay you a tenner, my pippin, / You’ll repent when you’ve once got a wife.at tenner, n.
in House Scraps (1887) 54: His ‘dexter ogle’ has a ‘mouse’; His conk’s devoid of bark.at bark, n.1
in House Scraps (1887) 54: His ‘dexter ogle’ has a ‘mouse’; His conk’s devoid of bark.at conk, n.1
in House Scraps (1887) 54: The ‘offside’ of his ‘kissing-trap’ / Displays an ugly mark!at kissing trap (n.) under kiss, v.
in House Scraps
(1887) 54: His ‘dexter ogle’ has a ‘mouse’; His conk’s devoid of bark.at mouse, n.
in House Scraps (1887) 51: Remembering Nelson’s maxim, / ‘Scrag every man in blue’.at scrag, v.
in House Scraps 14: A young sprig of nobility [...] was once heard to tell a friend that when he was in the House he felt like ‘an orchid in a turnip field.’ It is almost needless to say that he very shortly had cause to regret his speech, as ever afterwards he and his friends were known as ‘orchids,’ [...] By degrees ‘an orchid’ has become the nick-name for any member with a ‘handle’ to his name.at orchids and turnips, n.
in House Scraps
161: When Major P--- has his lunch, / Bang goes a bawbee, O!at baubee, n.
in House Scraps 118: A most terrible knave and a bite, / Who cheated his mother, / His sister, and brother.at bite, n.1
in House Scraps 73: To send the market either up or down, / In aerated ‘Breads,’ / Or ‘Shores,’ or ‘Yanks,’ or ‘Reds,’ / In slang we really do it rather brown.at do it brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
in House Scraps 115: At about the time the bubble schemes were flourishing, in 1825, Mr. Abernethy met some friends who had risked a large sum of money in one of those fraudulent speculations.at bubble, n.1
in House Scraps 58: Turning round, I saw my unfortunate beaver, or ‘canister’ as it was called by the gentry who had it in their keeping.at canister, n.1
in House Scraps 126: The Bulls are coining money.at coin (it), v.
in House Scraps 92: I’ve seen ’im demeening ’iself by larfin’ with a kerbstone deler.at curbstone broker (n.) under curbstone, adj.
in House Scraps 166: The young ’un goes to music-halls, / And does the la-di-da; / We are a shiney family, We are! we are! we are!at la-di-da(h), n.1
in House Scraps 140: ‘Right enough’ was the retort.at right enough, phr.
in House Scraps 173: Last week a tip they set afloat, / That over fifteen topped ’em, / But Rothschild’s welcome little note / Soon back to fourteen flopped ’em.at flop, v.
in House Scraps 29: And Villiam, like a reg’lar gaby, / Cloth’d the boy [...] In finery out of the ’Arrow Rode.at gaby, n.
in House Scraps 161: Major P---’s unco’ sly, / There is no green about his eye.at see any green (in my eye)? under green, n.1
in House Scraps 164: Jolly go the moments when I rook them so.at rook, v.1
in House Scraps 166: The young ’un goes to music-halls, / And does the la-di-da; / We are a shiney family, We are! we are! we are!at shiny, adj.
in House Scraps 151: The first, the champion of ‘the vast Wabash,’ / Makes millions when his railroads ‘go to smash’.at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
in House Scraps 14: A young sprig of nobility [...] was once heard to tell a friend that when he was in the House he felt like ‘an orchid in a turnip field.’.at sprig, n.1
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