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Poor Robin’s Almanac q. in Liverpool Dly Post 25 Feb. 9/4: Pancakes are eat by greedy-gut / And Hob and Madge run for the slut.at greedy-gut, n.
Poor Robin’s Almanac q. in Liverpool Dly Post 25 Feb. 9/4: Pancakes are eat by greedy-gut / And Hob and Madge run for the slut. Liverpool Dly Post 6 Dec. 7/2: ‘Hang it, man’ shouted a fellow in the gallery.at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
Liverpool Dly Post 24 Apr. 4/6: Snake-Eye Tobacco, Fine Cavendish Cut, and London Super Shag .at super, adj.
Liverpool Dly Post 3 May 2/6: That fine and highly laboured peroration concerning prostitution would have told with immense effect in his tub-thumping days.at tub-thumping, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 29 Sept. 3/2: He said, ‘No matter who I am; you hold your noise‘.at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
Liverpool Dly Post 3 Sept. 7/4: The woman said, ’He’s asleep — I’ll keep nix’ [...] he aroused himself, upon which the woman said ‘Nix the bobby’s coming,’ and ran away.at keep nix (v.) under nix!, excl.
Liverpool Dly Post 15 July 1/5: George Brumby [...] has made very considerable additions to the Black Work and Funeral Department of his establishment.at black work (n.) under black, adj.
Liverpool Daily Post 30 Dec. 5/3: John Bullism, however, prevailed, the war was persisted in.at John Bullism (n.) under John Bull, n.1
Liverpool Dly Post 10 Jan. 4/5: The people here laugh, / And think it fine sport, / While ‘Jonathan’ looks like a ‘spoon’.at Jonathan, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 15 July 8/6: He heard Barber say, ‘You whitewashed son of a bitch’.at whitewashed, adj.
Liverpool Dly Post 11 Apr. 5/4: [from N.Y. Times 28 Mar.] We sympathise with Cincinnatti; we congratulate Chicago — henceforth crowned the true and undisputed Porkopolis.at Porkopolis, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 20 Sept. 7/4: I’m sure that Old Bailey is that filthy that they may as well say ‘as black as Newgate’.at black as Newgate (adj.) under black as..., adj.
Liverpool Dly Post 24 Sept. 7/4: The blankets were at a ‘leaving’ or ‘dolly shop’.at dollyshop, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 7 Feb. 7/6: Oh! s’elp me greens, there’s a Pharoah’s serpent.at s’elp me greens!, excl.
Liverpool Dly Post 11 Mar. 7/2: Baines stood at the bottom to ‘keep nix’.at keep nix (v.) under nix!, excl.
Liverpool Dly Post 20 Sept. 7/4: She’s a woman as I don’t hold with, bein’ one as will [...] sponge on any one.at sponge, v.
Liverpool Dly Post 28 Oct. 9/6: We will send his bones to the grave [...] to the tune the old cow died of.at tune the old cow died of, n.
Liverpool Daily Post 26 Dec. 6/5: He dissented from the policy which his Sovereign saw fit to embark on on the occasion of Garibaldi’s crack-brained enterprise.at crack-brained (adj.) under crackbrain, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 11 Aug. 4/6: Every form of ‘back-hair’ worn by every lady [...] the curly ringlets of the romp [...] the sausage roll, the snake, the caterpillar, the black-pudding, the parasol, the door-knocker and the bird’s nest, all of hair.at door-knocker, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 10 Dec. 7/6: A Hush-Shop Keeper heavily Fined [...] charged with selling beer and spirits without having a license.at hush-shop (n.) under hush, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 11 Feb. 5/5: He was taken to a committee room [...] the night before the election, where men were ‘bottled’ and kept drunk all night.at bottle, v.1
Liverpool Dly Post 31 Aug. 9/5: They ‘bunged his eye up, his nose was cracked, and he had to send for a doctor’.at bung, v.1
Liverpool Dly Post 19 Mar. 1/2: Augustus Fitzfizgig, a lardy-dardy swell.at lardy-dardy, adj.
Liverpool Dly Post 31 Mar. 7/1: It was evident that she had been a 'fence shop' for the receiving of stolen property.at fence-shop (n.) under fence, n.1
Liverpool Dly Post 24 Mar. 4/5: The Thames Mud Butter — Lately a sample of the grease from the thames mud at Battersea has been examined.at Thames butter, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 11 May 3/1: [advert] To be let, a Mug House and shop [etc.].at mughouse (n.) under mug, n.1
Liverpool Daily Post 26 Oct. 5/9: [headline] Austria Doing the Collar-Work. Sacrified for Germans.at collar work (n.) under collar, n.
Liverpool Dly Post 8 July 5/4: Of course I had to be ‘gassed’, It’s the fashion to ‘cop’ a dose of that yellow smoke.at cop, v.
Liverpool Dly Post 8 Mar. 8/6: When a man is sick [...] a dish of buttered rice, with [...] a little poor John, or salted fish.at poor john (n.) under poor, adj.
Liverpool Dly Post 7 Nov. 8/6: They were met by the Seales, one of whom said, ‘Get hold of anything, and do them in’.at do in, v.
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