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Houndsditch Day by Day 168: There’s everythink done up A1.at A-1, adv.
Houndsditch Day by Day 168: There’s everythink done up A1. Houndsditch Day by Day 90: Dey gets pack an’ finds dat de letter-writin’ cabtain has guyed vit’ de pot.at guy-a-whack, v.
Houndsditch Day by Day 104: Eatin’ the roast an’ boiled off a cain-an’-abel that cost three-score.at Cain and Abel, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 90: Old Joe Leapman, him as got put avay for ten years for gonophin’ a bublic-house till.at put away, v.
Houndsditch Day by Day 63: Now, then, Tinker, beer up.at beer up (v.) under beer, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 106: Joseph’s baritone better half was sitting on the chair with a plate of beans and kugel in her lap.at better half, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 48: He told the doctor, ’onest and shtraitvorward, the torah truth. [Ibid.] 139: Life ain’t in ’oldin’ the biggest cards, but in playin’ a poor ’and well. That’s towrah, ain’t it?at bible, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 86: They knows what these young Yiddisher bilks is capable of.at bilk, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 80: It ain’t the motors as we ’ave to contend ag’inst so much as the bilkers.at bilker (n.) under bilk, v.
Houndsditch Day by Day 135: Ben Simmons was a real social blister. Ben was a real bad egg.at blister, n.1
Houndsditch Day by Day 74: A party of young bloods from the barracks were drinking and ‘a carryin’ on’.at blood, n.1
Houndsditch Day by Day 62: In tones of disgust the man who had bossed the collection remonstrated.at boss, v.
Houndsditch Day by Day 58: A good-natured, middle-aged old boy.at old boy, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 118: I reckon as old Sol couldn’t ha’ lived without a pack of broads.at broads, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 69: It was a bully drive.at bully, adj.1
Houndsditch Day by Day 63: Two ragged, ex-racecourse roustabouts, known to the pavement-pacers of Fleet Street as Tinker and the Ball’s Pond Bum.at bum, n.3
Houndsditch Day by Day 15: He has had the molars out all right enough, but he has buzzed her on the laughing gas.at buzz, v.1
Houndsditch Day by Day 117: Dr Johnson’s old carser has been swep’ away.at carsey, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 98: The ‘heads’ were falling over one another to lay 5 to 1 on Kilcock for the opening race, and none but a born ‘case’ for Hanwell would have tried to find anything to beat it.at case, n.1
Houndsditch Day by Day 93: It’s on’y her habit to glose her eyes when a-listenin’ to ghampion biano-blayin’.at champion, adj.
Houndsditch Day by Day 19: Eight pounds are a Chinese loan to a man between whom and the workhouse only nineteen pennies stand.at Chinese loan (n.) under Chinese, adj.
Houndsditch Day by Day 89: It’s easy enough to chip in; simbly got to insert a sort o’ conversational jimmy into de discussion.at chip in, v.
Houndsditch Day by Day 42: The noble captain was a bit chippy; he had been up half the night initiating a monied youngster into the mysterios of écarté.at chippy, adj.1
Houndsditch Day by Day 52: Vhat vit’ dere guiver an’ dere chutspa, I don’d see ’em no more.at chutzpah, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 50: [He] used to ’awk lobsters an’ chutspa photographs on ’Ampton racecourse.at chutzpah, adj.
Houndsditch Day by Day 128: Ach, guv’nor, I see as ’ow de coalies up at Cardiff is gettin’ up a big race for novices.at coalie, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 26: Mo’s offer being by now advanced to eight-and-sixpence, and Isaac’s reserve lowered to an even half-couter.at half-couter (n.) under couter, n.1
Houndsditch Day by Day 175: The James Crow aristocracy of the dramatic profession patronised him liberally.at jim crow, n.2
Houndsditch Day by Day 67: Didn’ I tell yer las’ Friday night as I’d got a real daisy-cutter a-comin’? An’ ’aven’t I got ’er for yer?at daisy-cutter (n.) under daisy, n.
Houndsditch Day by Day 80: Talking’s dry work, William [...] come and have a damper.at damper, n.1
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