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Sporting Times. The ‘Pink ’Un’ World choose

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[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 21 Aug. 1/2: I’d ’ardly got a touch-me in my sky, much less an amesjay to pay for me saint an’ sinner!
at amesjay, n.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 265: Joe Dillon and Harry Maggs [...] were distinctly not to be included in the A.1 family.
at A-1, adj.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 89: I’d ’ardly got a touch-me in my sky, much less an amesjay to pay for me saint an’ sinner!
at saint and sinner, n.
[UK] (con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 88: But a pair of his round the houses hung / At the Anna Maria to air.
at anna maria, n.
[UK] (con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 87: But she cooled each mince with a little scent, And her Barnet arranged with grace.
at barnet (fair), n.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 273: Once upon a time there was a youth who [...] deemed it good one day to have a ‘barney’.
at barney, n.1
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 143: He felt really aggrieved that she had not ‘beered up’ to him.
at beer up (v.) under beer, n.
[UK] (con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 88: Round the Johnny Horner, to where she’d been / Just a birdlime or two before.
at birdlime, n.2
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 136: O, blow the command programme.
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 141: The said little Jew boy and his chocolate engulfing little friend were genuine dramatic critics at a bob a nob.
at bob a nob (n.) under bob, n.3
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 101: The companies [...] invariably brought with them a journalist whose business it was to ‘boom the show’.
at boom, v.
[UK] (con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 88: And the thought came into her loaf of bread / Just to pop in her I suppose.
at loaf (of bread), n.
[UK] (con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 88: I’ll half-inch ’em – they’re sure to fetch enough / To purchase a Brian or two!
at Brian O’Linn, n.
[UK] (con. 1900s) J.B. Booth Sporting Times 250: In the ordinary way there’d be nothing for it but to bung him along his cheque.
at bung, v.1
[UK] (con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 88: But the bushel of coke said, ‘Go away’.
at bushel (of coke), n.
[UK] (con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 87: And then down the apples and pears she went, With a sorrowful chevy chase.
at chevy (chase), n.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 246: Why on earth don’t you chuck it, an’ clear out?
at chuck it, v.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 16: The ‘milk’ we heard so much of in operations against a dead ’un.
at dead one, n.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 230: Thanks to the ‘dogs’, the ‘pools’ and the ‘tote’, never has a greater volume of money been used in betting.
at dogs, the, n.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 70: Where the actor out of collar / Often raises half a dollar.
at half-dollar, n.1
[UK] (con. 1900s) J.B. Booth Sporting Times 138: Stand me a cab fare, duckie / Oh! do, now, there’s a dear.
at ducks, n.1
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 263: It’s the crushin’ exes [...] that sickens gentlemen with racin.
at exes, n.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 74: He was a stout man, with a wide countenance adorned with grey, mutton-chop whiskers — a species of ‘face fungi’ much in vogue at the time.
at face fungus (n.) under face, n.
[UK] (con. 1910s) J.B. Booth Sporting Times 253: Your words carry me back to the days when I was in full feather.
at in full feather under feather, n.
[UK] (con. 1900s) J.B. Booth Sporting Times 191: On’y think of it — a ten-ounce pork chop and Ben Davies for fippence.
at fippence, n.
[UK] (con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 88: ‘Your old pot and pan must be half a tree!’ / Said the cove; and it flashed on Meg.
at flash on (v.) under flash, v.3
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 117: In some ten minutes Leno was gagging wildly at his best.
at gag, v.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 89: Cook! Yearling rump for a gummer!
at gummer, n.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 38: It’s all right guv’nor [...] Stop a bit and let me show it.
at guvnor, n.
[UK] J.B. Booth Sporting Times 267: Now, Joe [...] it’s high time we did a guy.
at do a guy (v.) under guy, n.1
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