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Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 18 July 4/4: Put on the pot, says Greedy-guy, / we’ll sup before we go.at greedy-gut, n.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 18 July 4/4: Put on the pot, says Greedy-guy, / we’ll sup before we go. Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 21 Aug. 3/4: Sampson stopped a well-meant touch on the bread basket.at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 28 May 2/4: Almost all the London ring was down on the occasion — at least all who could muster the corianders.at coriander (seed), n.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 29 May 2/4: He called for a daffy and drank ‘Confusion to the muff.’ We presume he mean the losing man.at daffy, n.1
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 29 May 2/4: ‘Lushing’ was the word, and the ‘heavy wet’ and ‘Deady’s elixir’ evaporated tike dew before the sun.at deady, n.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 25 Dec. 4/1: Taylor running on knock’d him down [...] and after that, oh, ’twas all dickey with ’em.at dicky, adj.1
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 21 Aug. 3/4: Sampson [...] hit poor Aby on the left goggle [...] Aby came up with an eye ‘that was scarce fit,’ as Josh said, ‘to bait a mouse trap’.at goggles, n.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 25 Dec. 4/1: If you lay but one of your thieving hooks upon a digit of her corporeal substance, faith I’ll break my arm across your face.at thieving hooks, n.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 25 Dec. 4/1: Long life to you jewel (says I).at jewel, n.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 29 May 2/4: He called for a daffy and drank ‘Confusion to the muff.’ We presume he mean the losing man.at muff, n.2
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 25 Dec. 4/1: ‘On, on, my brave fellows!’ roared somebody in the rear, giving me a prick in the netherlands with a bayonet.at Netherlands, n.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 21 Aug. 3/4: Sampson [...] planted such an unanswerable problem on poor Aby’s nutcrackers [that] he went down.at nutcracker, n.1
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 25 Dec. 4/1: Didn’t we live like fighting cocks sure!at sure!, excl.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 29 May 2/4: He [a former boxer] was in fact a tip-topsman, and looked more like a corinthian than a commoner. His late marriage to a young lady [...] with 20,000l. has placed him above his former calling, and he has now retired from the ring.at tip-topsman (n.) under tip-top, adj.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 21 Aug. 3/4: Sampson [...] went to work again and let fly a ‘vopper’ on Aby’s thorax, which he followed up with a second touch [...] on his now distorted mug.at whopper, n.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 28 Apr. 4/1: Boston is a terrible place for fevers and agues [...] or [the] ‘shake.’ as they call it.at shakes, the, n.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 22 Mar 3/3: Two others swore that they had heard the prosecutor say he would ‘pitch it hard’ against one of the prisoners [...] and that he would ‘do for him’.at pitch it strong (v.) under pitch, v.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 5 Feb. 3/3: The father of this youth [...] who has himself been a teaser of catgut all his lifetime, acquitted himself admirably on the violin.at catgut-teaser (n.) under catgut, n.1
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 9 Apr. 4/2: Mr. C[harles]. had a very animated looking bust of a man which occasionally uses in illusions in ventriloquism. The box was opened, when the figure, acting on a spring, started up" [...] Terror, [...] was seen in the face every one that remained, for the greater part had rnn awuy, and thus Mr. Charles convinced them he was no ‘Sack’em-up’.at sack ’em up (man) (n.) under sack, v.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 7 Apr. 4/3: By an old law of clergy a woman might suffer death for an offense, whilst her maler associate in guilt saved his life by reading the miserable neck-verse.at neck verse (n.) under neck, n.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 8 Dec. 4/3: There’s no parlyvoo palaver about me. I’m a John Bull.at parleyvoo, adj.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 8 Dec. 4/3: The nasty stuff one gets to eat.at stuff, n.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 8 Dec. 4/3: Missus what-d’-ye-call-her, there, with her long outlandish name.at whatd’youcallhim, n.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 21 Sept. 3/3: A man can have [...] no decency, who can style a place of worship, a ‘schism-shop’.at schism-shop, n.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 23 Feb. 2/4: The few members of the society who happened to be electors were [...] ‘woundy savage’ at being utterly despised and rejected.at woundy, adv.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 15 Oct. 4/4: My lud, the cipher of horse chaunting is too valuable for me to communicate [...] if foreigners knew it, we should very soon have horse chaunters for Foreign Secretaries.at horse-chaunter (n.) under horse, n.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 27 Aug. 4/2: On the scaffold the tall grave man in black twisted him round swiftly [...] and drawing from his pocket a nightcap, pulled it tight over the patient’s head and face [...] I could look no longer, but shut my eyes as the last dreadful act was going on.at nightcap, n.2
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 26 Jan. 4/1: His ammunition-leg had received a more than usual polish of beeswax, and there he stood.at ammunition leg, n.
Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 26 Jan. 4/1: Weel, Ben, ye’re alive. I’m thinking; [...] we’ll crack of langsyne after the anchor is gone.at crack, v.1
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 20 July 4/6: ‘Pray, Mr Peter, do you ever smoke?’ — ‘No, I generally chaws [...] I likes a bit of pigtail sometimes’.at pigtail, n.
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