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[UK] Bell’s Life in London 13 Oct. 5/3: If you’re up to the slums Autem Gogglers should know; What is my luck to be? — said the mummers, ‘so,so!’.
at autem-gogler (n.) under autem, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 7 July 2/2: All this, and much more [...] was neded before I could expect to cut a figure among the dons of St James’s Street or pass for anything but a novice.
at don, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 3 Nov. 4/3: We shall see no more of their innuendoes [...] than of a flash cove who has caught sight of a police officer while drawing forth a countryman’s handkerchief.
at flash cove (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 13 Oct. 5/3: Your kinchins shall rule when you’re dead.
at kinchin, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 25 Aug. 1/2: Am I their Jack Pudding, ha? their maccaroni [sic], ha?
at macaroni, n.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 9 June 119/3: A few – very few, gipsies, jockeys, mace coves, magsmen, and prigs, to make up the assortment.
at magsman, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 13 Oct. 5/3: I first ogled Chloe, bewitchingly simple.
at ogle, v.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 25 Aug. 1/2: (Enter a Page from whithin) Mr Schneider, the tailor, is wanted.
at schneider, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 2 Feb. 1/3: Beef-witted country parsons (for the sake of chuckling over a smutty joke) may [do].
at beef-witted (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 5 Oct. 4/1: They are grown too wise, like the fox in the proverb, to cry out ‘roast meat’.
at cry roast meat (v.) under cry, v.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 16 Feb. 4/3: Luke Cox had seen lady Portsmouth and Mr. Alder walking together. His Lordship had said, ‘There goes my Lady and her Flash-man’.
at flashman, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 12 Jan. 6/1: One of their party [...] attempted to tickle his ribs.
at tickle someone’s ribs (v.) under rib, n.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 2 Feb. 1/3: Beef-witted country parsons (for the sake of chuckling over a smutty joke) may [do].
at smutty, adj.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 11 Sept. 8/1: A baker (the same barmy chaps [...] in all climates).
at barmy, adj.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 11 Sept. 8/1: Myriads of blunt commoners, pot-headed squires, and the rag-tag and bobtail ragamuffins.
at blunt, n.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 2 Jan. 5/3: It chanc’d most oddly that a brother quill (A brother clerk) [...] had just gained by luck [etc].
at brother of the quill (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/3: Bill vas in such a funck.
at funk, n.2
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/3: I vas so peckish, that I proposed going to the grubbery.
at grubbery, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/3: There vas a precious crowd [...] and some of ’em looked such guys, and know’d no more about riding than a pig.
at guy, n.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 11 Sept. 8/1: Myriads of blunt commoners, pot-headed squires, and the rag-tag and bobtail ragamuffins.
at pothead, n.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/3: [T]here vas such a holloring made my nag quite rusty.
at rusty, adj.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/3: Ven vee got off the stones, I puts my nag into a trot, but Bill called out to not to be in an urry, as ve’d be only blowing our cattle.
at stones, the, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/3: I seed several people of fashion, and there vere some on ’em vith red jackets—these vere the tip-toppers.
at tip-topper, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/3: [T]he ostler says to me, ‘you’ve lost a shoe, Sir.’ ‘Valker’ says I, and I ups with my thumb again to my nose—l don’t vear no shoes.
at walker!, excl.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 24 Dec. 2/5: We know that ’tis only ‘my eye’.
at all my eye, phr.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 7 May 3/2: He is a perfect Anatomie Vivante, and will reqire lots of belly furniture.
at belly furniture (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 24 Dec. 2/5: He call’d his own partner a ‘blackguard informer’.
at blackguard, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life & Sporting Chron. 17 Dec. 3/1: The much talked of fight between Ned O’Neal and Phil Sampson, ‘the Brummagem Youth as was’, as Frosty Faced Fogo would say, took place on Tuesday.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 7 May 3/2: January, like his namesake [...] took the lead [...] cracking the pieman’s crust in a style which completely deranged the economy of his grubbing utensils. The pieman was overdone [...] having both ogles completely shut up.
at crust, n.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London 7 May 3/2: January, like his namesake [...] took the lead [...] cracking the pieman’s crust and spilling his gravy [...] The pieman was overdone [...] having both ogles completely shut up.
at gravy, n.
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