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Blackwood’s Mag. I 137: Beware that you are not ‘bronzed’; take care that what you publish is authentic [OED].at bronze, v.
Blackwood’s Mag. I 137: Beware that you are not ‘bronzed’; take care that what you publish is authentic [OED]. in Blackwood’s Mag. IV 321: I’m a swapper, as every one knows, In my pumps six feet three inches high .at swapper, n.2
Blackwood’s Mag. V. 638: All other Colleges, thou beat’st to snuff / Great Alma Mater of our kings of yore.at beat to snuff (v.) under beat, v.
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Blackwood’s Mag. VIII 98: We shall take a tiff of Campbell and Somerville’s best black strap .at tiff, n.1
Blackwood’s Mag. in DSUE (1984).at girl, n.1
in Blackwood’s Mag. X 253: Here have I been sitting, this whole long-lagging, muzzy, mizly morning .at muzzy, adj.
Blackwood’s Mag. July 57/1: Mayhap too his head is addled by an extra half dozen tumblers of punch, or by a speech of Joe Hume's, or something else that is apt to stupify a man.at addled, adj.
‘The Wine-Bibber’s Glory’ in Blackwood’s Mag. Jan. n.p.: ’Tis the bond of society – no inebriety / Follows a swig of the Blue.at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
‘The Wine-Bibber’s Glory’ in Blackwood’s Mag. Jan. n.p.: ’Tis a nice provocation, to wise conversation, Queer blarney, or harmless palaver.at palaver, n.
Blackwood’s Mag. Sept. 307: It’s no right o’ you to be aye making a puir mouth [F&H].at make (a) poor mouth (v.) under poormouth, n.
Blackwood’s Mag. July in DSUE (1984).at bubble and squeak, adv.
Blackwood’s Mag. in DSUE (1984).at buff to one’s work (v.) under buff, adj.1
Blackwood’s Mag. XIV 309: You have been daubed over by the dirty butter of his applause [F&H].at butter, n.1
‘Commentary on Ritter Bann’ in Blackwood’s Mag. Apr. n.p.: ‘Ritter Bann. And where went Jane?’ ‘Old Snoozer. To a nunnery, sir.’.at snoozer, n.1
‘Commentary on Ritter Bann’ in Blackwood’s Mag. Apr. n.p.: My own tipple is Rhenish.at tipple, n.
Blackwood’s Mag. xix 631: A diet of outlandish soups and belly-vengeance [F&H].at belly vengeance (n.) under belly, n.
‘Murder, considered as one of the fine arts’ in Blackwood’s Feb. 202/1: The amateur, from looking bilious and sulky, by too close an attention to virtue, begins to pick up his crumbs, and general hilarity prevails.at pick up one’s crumbs (v.) under pick up, v.
Blackwood’s Mag. XXX. 343/2: Instead of one kick, he deserves and gets a devil’s dozen .at devil’s dozen (n.) under devil, n.
Blackwood’s Mag. Oct. 426: To protract existence... in the shape of bum-brushers, and so forth, after the fashion of the exalted emigres of 1792? [F&H].at bum-brusher (n.) under bum, n.1
Blackwood’s Mag. May 752/1: ‘Which’, said he, ‘is it to be – two out of three, as at Newmarket, or the first toss to decide?’ ‘Sudden death’, said I, ‘and there will soon be an end of it.’ .at sudden death, n.1
Noctes Ambrosianae in Blackwood’s Mag. xxxvi 132: Dog on’t, you’ll bring bluid.at dog on it! (excl.) under dog!, excl.
(con. mid-17C) ‘Nursery Rhyme’ in Blackwood’s Mag. 475: Cock-a-doodle-doo / The dame has lost her shoe. / My Master’s lost his fuddling cap / And doesn’t know what to do.at fuddling-cap (n.) under fuddle, v.
‘Gentleman Jack’ in Blackwood’s Mag. II 190/1: O you d— scowbanking lubbers, why the devil don’t you move your lazy limbs!at scowbanking, adj.
Blackwood’s Mag. L., 202: Buttoners are those accomplices of thimble-riggers... whose duty it is to act as flat-catchers, or decoys, by personating flats [F&H].at buttoner, n.
Blackwood’s Mag. Apr. 498/2: One evening, when the old catamran had got the mulligrubs [...] and though he was at last going to hop the twig.at catamaran, n.
Blackwood’s Mag. Apr. 498/2: If my wife had kept company with a life-guardsman under my nose, don't you imagine I would have cooked his goose.at cook someone’s goose, v.
Blackwood’s Mag. LVI 572: There are few such thorough tuft-hunters as your genuine Oxford Don.at tuft-hunter, n.
Blackwood’s Mag. Apr. 498: Simple persons who have been smarter or earlier in the field of fortune will burst up some fine morning, and leave the road open to others.at bust, v.1
Blackwood’s Mag. LX 147: Many affected to sneer at him, as a ‘muff,’ who would have been exceedingly flattered by his personal acquaintance.at muff, n.2
Blackwood’s Mag. LX 148: If he had been a hard-reading man from choice, — or a stupid man, — or a ‘saint,’ — no one would have troubled themselves about him.at saint, n.
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