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E. London Obs. 16 Oct. 3/6: A man with no whiskers and gin blossoms on his nose.at gin blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
E. London Obs. 16 Oct. 3/6: A man with no whiskers and gin blossoms on his nose. E. London Obs. 7 Aug. 2/2: We should expect the contracting burtchers to [...] buy their worst meat [...] and supply ‘cag-mag’ to the troops at a high profit.at cagmag, n.
E. London Obs. 26 July 3/6: Henry Jacobs, the proprietor of a leaving shop [...] near Stepney Old Church.at leaving shop, n.
E. London Obs. 3 July 4/4: [He] asked if it was the intention of Parliament to establish what he elegantly styled ‘a drunkery’ in Victoria Park.at drunkery, n.
East London Obs. 31 July 4/5: The ‘mutton broth bath’ and ‘only skilly and toke in the casual ward’.at skilly and toke (n.) under skilly, n.1
East London Obs. 19 Mar. 6/6: Why, sir, I soon found that I couldn’t bleed you.at bleed, v.1
E. London Obs. 19 Mar. 7/1: She was a neat old body, of a Quaker kind of cut.at body, n.
East London Obs. 19 Mar. 6/6: They prefer ‘chancy’ profits to fixed wages.at chancy, adj.
East London Obs. 19 Mar. 6/6: The carpenter [...] found himself enlisted by a band of ‘lurkers’ — sham workmen.at lurker, n.
East London Obs. 19 Mar. 6/6: I’ve been a shivery-shaky, the man who couldn’t get warm, as the song says, but I never took much to that, because [...] it must be pretty cold when you go out to shiver.at shiverer, n.
East London Obs. 19 Mar. 6/6: In London where there’s such a sight of folks, there must be a sight of flats.at sight, n.2
E. London Obs. 19 Mar. 7/1: The innocence of the poor old silly was downright touching.at silly, n.1
East London Obs. 19 Mar. 6/6: I ain’t a lushington [...] I don’t see the sense of it —it ain’t serving life when you’ve got three parts stupid before the fun begins.at stupid, adj.
East London Obs. 11 Oct. 7/1: Armed with a long knife [he] said with an oath, ‘If you don’t hold your row, you will get this’.at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
East London Obs. 22 Sept. 6/3: ‘I’ll bet my head toa China orange, as the saying is, that that rascal Watts married this poor girl’.at bet one’s head to a China orange (v.) under bet, v.
East London Observer 4 Feb. n.p.: Hundreds, too, of slaved dead beats, / All, all stone broke, / Perambulate the Brisbane streets, / Fit, fit to croak.at stone broke, adj.
East London Observer 4 Feb. n.p.: Hundreds, too, of slaved dead beats, / All, all stone broke, / Perambulate the Brisbane streets, / Fit, fit to croak.at croak, v.2
East London Observer 4 Feb. n.p.: Hundreds, too, of slaved dead beats, / All, all stone broke, / Perambulate the Brisbane streets, / Fit, fit to croak.at deadbeat, n.
East London Obs. 30 June 3: The evils of the sweating system [...] Miss Annie Besant made a [...] speech condemnatory of sweating.at sweat, v.2
East London Obs. 30 June 3: [headline] A Sweater’s Meeting.at sweater, n.1
E. London Obs. 22 Mar. 3: [T]he beginning of [Petticoat Lane] is occupied by dealers in light refreshments, consisting of hokey pokey, wally wallies, hot peas, whelks [...] fried fish, apple fritters, trotters, and many other cheap luxuries.at wally, n.1
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