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Manchester Times 7 June 2/4: The industrious man may be a mere jog-trot, gin-mill person, incapable of comprehensive views, ignorant [etc.].at gin-mill, n.
Manchester Times 7 June 2/4: The industrious man may be a mere jog-trot, gin-mill person, incapable of comprehensive views, ignorant [etc.]. Manchester Times 8 Dec. 4/1: The subsciption of ‘Archibald Prentice, farmer’ [...] for twenty-nine copies [...] is passed over in silence by the tuft-hunting biographer!at tuft-hunting, adj.
Manchester Times 10 oct. 2/6: Mongrel Humanity. Language cannot furnish a censure more condemnatory of the political system of England.at mongrel, adj.
Manchester Times 4 Sept. 3/6: Here is proof that the Church and State, which have got over many a sickener, would be choked with corn.at sickener, n.
Manchester Times 3 Apr. 4/7: To call such a man [...] the prurient windbag described above, seems to me the poorest solecism.at windbag, n.
Manchester Times 31 July 4/6: The guard had resolved to come Yorkshire over his querulous, loquacious passenger.at come (the) Yorkshire over (v.) under Yorkshire, adj.
Manchester Times 26 Nov. 4/3: ‘Hold you your potato-jaw, my dear,’ cried the Duke.at potato jaw (n.) under potato, n.
Manchester Times 17 Aug. 2/4: ‘Stabbed with a Bridport dagger’ means hanged.at stabbed with a Bridport dagger (adj.) under stab, v.
Manchester Times 24 May 2/5: Tom’s noan ov givvin in soart — iv ee gets howd by gingo he’l stik.at jingo!, excl.
Manchester Times 9 Oct. 5/1: His grace’s strong beer ‘sewed-up’ all their riders.at sew up, v.
Manchester Times 24 Apr. 4/3: Mr Macaulay made the ‘crack’ speech of the debate.at crack, adj.
Manchester Times 2 Oct. 7/4: The aimiable parties ‘join giblets’ without a comment being made by their relatives or neighbours.at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
Manchester Times 7 May 2/4: Sabbath is pudding-day and clean-shirt day.at clean-shirt day (n.) under shirt, n.
(ref. to 1819) Manchester Times 28 Oct. 2/1: Just published: The Bairnsla Fuak’s Annual [...] for 1819 [...] A Cumpany we Widda Wagjaw, Fanny Frumper, Betty Barrellweight and Lindy All-lip.at lip, n.1
Manchester Times 4 July 7/1: The monks then chained Old Clootie down, despite his yells and cries.at old clootie (n.) under old, adj.
(ref. to 1819) Manchester Times 28 Oct. 2/1: Just published: The Bairnsla Fuak’s Annual [...] for 1819 [...] A Cumpany we Widda Wagjaw, Fanny Frumper, Betty Barrellweight and Lindy All-lip.at wag one’s chin (v.) under wag, v.
Manchester Times 23 July 8/1: In the last generation it was a popular notion with the working classes of London, that ‘the shires (or sheers as they call them) were a gallos long way off’.at gallows, adv.
Manchester Times 1 Oct. 6/5: Madame [...] got glorious and exhibited publicly drunk ansd rolled off her seat in the presence of her audience.at glorious, adj.
Manchester Times 27 June 5/2: The Strikers in Manchester [...] Kelsall (with whom there about ten others) called him a ‘knobstick’, collared him, and then kicked him.at knobstick, n.
Manchester Times 26 Dec. 2/1: It’s brother to that ghreyt dog o’ Lolloper’s.at lolloper, n.
Manchester Times 26 Dec. 2/1: By the maskins, Lord.at by the mack! (excl.) under mack, n.1
Manchester Times 15 Sept. 5/2: ‘He always said he should come to die with his — shoes on for my sake’.at die in (one’s) shoes (v.) under shoe, n.
Manchester Times 5 Mar. 3/4: We talk sometimes of a leg-of-mutton fist, of an adamantine hand. Abraham Lincoln has both.at mutton-fist (n.) under mutton, n.
Manchester Times 1 Oct. 7/1: Little interest was manifested in the speakers, the mock litany reciters and song sellars [sic] obtaining the largest audience.at mock litany men, n.
Manchester Times 5 Sept. 7/2: Will any of your readers tell me where I can find the rigmarole callled ‘Sworn at Highgate.’ It began [...] ‘Never take a bye road when you can take a high road...’.at sworn at Highgate, phr.
Manchester Times 18 Jan. 5/7: ‘Scandal broth,’ tea.at scandal-broth, n.
Manchester Times 4 Jan. 8/4: My eye! but that’s an uncommon smart girl! A regular high-stepper and no mistake.at high-stepper, n.1
Manchester Times 11 Nov. 5/2: Your bear is a highly accomplished bed-presser.at bed-presser (n.) under bed, n.
Manchester Times 4 Nov. n.p.: It is said that in his [i.e. the Rev. James Wilmot’s] library there were a good many specimens of that type of work which is described as ‘top shelf books’ – that is to say, works of a former age in which the higher morality of a latter age finds very much to take exception to.at top-shelf, adj.
Manchester Times 4 May 13/3: Bum-boat women are many, and various.at bum-boat, n.
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