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‘London University’ Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 76: And Gilchrist, the great Gentoo – / Professor, has a lot in town / Of Cockney boys, who fag Hindoo.at fag, v.2
‘London University’ Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 76: And Gilchrist, the great Gentoo – / Professor, has a lot in town / Of Cockney boys, who fag Hindoo. ‘Lines Left at Hook House’ Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 153: Add-zooks! / There’s Theodore Hook’s.at adzooks!, excl.
‘The Grey Dolphin’ Ingoldsby Legends I (1866) 43: He was as dead as ditch-water!at dead as..., adj.
‘The Bagman’s Dog’ Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 321: Poor Anthony Blogg / Is as sick as a dog.at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
‘The Bagman’s Dog’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 319: There were a score / Of Bagmen and more, / Who had travell’d full oft for the firm before.at bagman, n.
‘The Lay of St. Odille’ Ingoldsby Legends (1889) 148: Many Ladies in Strasburg were beautiful, still / They were beat all to sticks by the lovely Odille.at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
Ingoldsby Legends (1862) 181: Her tears had ceased; but her eyes were cast down, and mournfully fixed upon her delicate little foot, which was beating the devil’s tattoo.at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
‘Hand of Glory’ Ingoldsby Legends I (1866) 30: In vain may the blood-spiller ‘double’ and fly [...] He’ll be sure to be caught by a Hugh [sic] and a cry.at double, v.1
‘The Bagman’s Dog’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 327: He’d a ‘dreadnought coat’ and heavy sabots.at dreadnought, n.1
‘The Bagman’s Dog’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 334: Blogg, starting upright, ‘tipped’ the fellow a ‘facer’.at facer, n.2
‘Bagman’s Dog’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 335: I say, could I borrow these Gentlemen’s Muses, / More skill’d than my meek one in ‘fibbings’ and bruises.at fibbing, n.
‘The Bagman’s Dog’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 335: While what’s called ‘The Claret’ / Flew over the garret.at garret, n.
Ingoldsby Legends I (1889) 26: You’d lift up your hands in amazement, and cry, – ‘Well! – I never did see such a regular Guy!’.at guy, n.1
‘The Lay of St. Odile’ Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 257: It will not do to lie under any Saint’s ban, / For your hide, when you do, they all manage to tan.at tan someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
‘The Grey Dolphin’ Ingoldsby Legends I (1866) 41: His kick was tremendous, and when he had his boots on, would [...] ‘send a man from Jericho to June’.at Jericho, n.
‘Hand of Glory’ Ingoldsby Legends I (1866) 27: The fair Rose-Noble, the bright Moidore, / And the broad Double-Joe from ayont the sea.at joe, n.2
‘Some Account of a New Play’ Ingoldsby Legends I (1866) 182: Now to young ‘Johnny Newcome’ she seems to confine hers, Neglecting the poor little dear out at dry-nurse.at johnny newcome (n.) under johnny, n.1
‘The Lay of St. Odile’ Ingoldsby Legends (1889) 149: When he found she’d levanted, the Count of Alsace / At first turn’d remarkably red in the face.at levant, v.
‘Look at the Clock’ Ingoldsby Legends I (1866) 31: Mrs. Pryce was not over young, Had very short legs and a very long tongue.at long-tongued, adj.
‘The Lay of St. Odile’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 256: One hint to your vassals, – a month at ‘the Mill’ / Shall be nuts to what they’ll get who worry Odille!at nuts, n.1
‘The Bagman’s Dog’ Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 326: They soon reach’d the hut [...] Grimacing, and what Sailors call parley-vooing.at parleyvoo, v.
‘Lay of St. Odile’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 256: So put that in your pipe, my Lord Otto, and smoke it!at put that in your pipe (and smoke it)! (excl.) under pipe, n.1
‘Witches’ Frolic’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 164: Alone it stood, while its fellows lay strew’d, / Like a four-bottle man in a company ‘screw’d,’ / Not firm on his legs.at screwed, adj.
‘The Execution’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 301: There is M’Fuze, / And Lieutenant Tregooze, / And there is Sir Carnaby Jenks of the Blues, / All come to see a man ‘die in his shoes!’.at die in (one’s) shoes (v.) under shoe, n.
‘Witches’ Frolic’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 177: Instead of our slops / They had cutlets and chops.at slop, n.1
‘Witches’ Frolic’ Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 167: Then up and spake that sonsie quean.at sonsy, adj.
Ingoldsby Legends (1889) 66: Not a sous had he got, – not a guinea or note.at not a sou (n.) under sou, n.
‘The Lay of St. Odile’ Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 252: Now I think I’ve been told, – for I’m no sporting man, / That the ‘knowing-ones’ call this by far the best plan.at sporting man (n.) under sporting, adj.
‘Barney Maguires Acct. of the Coronation’ Ingoldsby Legends (1889) 173: For the Earl of Surrey, all in his hurry, Throwing the thirteens, hit him in his eye.at thirteener, n.
‘The Bagman’s Dog’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1840) 335: I’d describe now to you / As ‘prime a Set-to,’ / And ‘regular turn-up,’ as ever you knew.at turn-up, n.
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