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Sunderland Dly Echo 6 Jan. 4/2: He described Roger as having champagne shoulders [...] the defendant stood up for the jury to see the sloping shoulders.at champagne (bottle) shoulders (n.) under champagne, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 6 Jan. 4/2: He described Roger as having champagne shoulders [...] the defendant stood up for the jury to see the sloping shoulders. Sunderland Dly Echo 1 June 2/5: On his waistcoat breast dangled what in classical vernacular is called a ‘gammy 18 carat gold chain’.at gammy, adj.1
Sunderland Daily Echo 16 June 3/4: A young knight of the quill [...] has been paying his addresses to a fair damsel at Darlington.at ...the quill under knight of the..., n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 2 Jan. 4/2: The prisoner was rather ‘drunkie’.at drunkie, adj.
Sunderland Dly Echo 22 Oct. 2/6: A tenant who had been guilty of having perpetrated what is popularly known as a ‘moonlight flit’ has been sentenced.at moonlight flit, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 4 July 4/1: He called Mr Craik a ‘sappy-headed’ brute.at sappyheaded (adj.) under sappy, adj.
Sunderland Dly Echo 28 Dec. 2/6: The Conservatives comprise the wealthy, the noble, and the churchy of the land.at churchy, adj.
Sunderland Dly Echo 30Sept. 3/1: The Chester Ward Fee-Faw-Fum [...] has a rooted antipathy to arrow-root.at fee-faw-fum, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 24 Jan. 3/1: The deceased seemed depressed in spirits and said he would make a hole in the water before the day was done.at make a hole in the water (v.) under hole, n.1
Sunderland Dly Echo 21 Apr. 3/5: Defendant roustly declared he was a liar, and offered if the officer could prove what he said, to eat hay with horse.at eat hay with a horse, v.
Sunderland Dly Echo 29 Sept. 4/2: Wm. Winfy was charged with stealing three sums of money at Doncaster races by welching.at welch, v.
Sunderland Dly Echo 6 Apr. 3/1: McFarlane [...] got in, came out, and was caught [...] When arrested, said ‘Don’t badly use me; it is a fair cop’.at fair cop, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 10 May 4/5: The Yankeeries. Opening Ceremony [...] The American Exhibition at West Brompton was declared open to-day.at yankeeries, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 21 Jan. 3/3: He is a thin, pale, beetle-browed Milanese.at beetle-brain (n.) under beetle, n.1
Sunderland Daily Echo 24 Dec. 3/3: The complainant [i.e. his wife] stated [...] He had invested in London, and purchased a horse and cart, and was now hawking. He had bought a gold watch and chain, and was a ‘Hallelujah masher,’ (Laughter).at hallelujah masher (n.) under hallelujah, adj.
Sunderland Dly Echo 6 July 3/1: A Purse Snatcher [...] the prisoner then said he had tried to steal a lady’s purse, but that she was oo sharp for him.at purse-snatcher (n.) under purse, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 7 Aug. 4/2: [headline] A Female Bruiser. At the Borough Police Court [...] Isa Campbell charged Susan Watson with assault.at bruiser, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 18 Nov. 3/2: he came home at might ‘mortallius,’ four companions [...] singing and shouting a drunken song.at mortallious, adj.
Sunderland Dly Echo 20 Sept. 3/1: She used to lie in bed through the day, and at night go out and get ‘mortallious’.at mortallious, adj.
Sunderland Dly Echo 15 Sept. 2/6: I was grossly insulted [by] a most impudent and imprudent letter signed by ‘Joe Bowman’ [...] who, after ‘piling on the agony’, concludes [etc].at put on an/the agony (v.) under agony, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 15 Sept. 2/6: I suggest to Brother Bung an increase of attention to his own business.at brother of the bung (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 30 Dec. 4/1: No, no, my pigeon-brained friend, it won’t do.at pigeon-brained (adj.) under pigeon, n.1
Sunderland Daily Echo 11 Feb. 3/2: Unmentionables — Great sale this day of Men’s Tweed Trousers.at unmentionables, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 15 Dec. 3/2: Miss Rankin recited ‘Methody Jim’, and being encored, gave ‘Blacking the Baby’.at Methody, adj.
Sunderland Dly Echo 16 Feb. 2/6: Economy, too, is a thing not to be sneezed at.at not to be sneezed at under sneeze, v.1
Sunderland Dly Echo 12 Aug. 1/5: Vagrant ward regulations have been so arranged that the tramp avoids the ‘spinniken’ just as he keeps out of the clutches of the ‘methony,’ or policeman .at spiniken, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 2 June 3/5: A ‘Barbary Coast’ Row. At the Borough Police Court [...] a man named John Connor was charged with assaulting Margaret Creighton in Hodgson’s-buildings [...] After striking her he ‘hoyed’ witness from top to the bottom of the stairs.at Barbary Coast, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 2 June 3/5: A ‘Barbary Coast’ Row. At the Borough Police Court [...] a man named John Connor was charged with assaulting Margaret Creighton in Hodgson’s-buildings [...] After striking her he ‘hoyed’ witness from top to the bottom of the stairs.at hoy, v.
Sunderland Dly Echo 24 June 4/6: Strolling into the Café Royal and ordering ‘a pint of “mahogany,” two “doorsteps” and a “swimmer”’.at mahogany, n.
Sunderland Dly Echo 14 Oct. n.p.: ‘Gis the men a rest!’ says the slack-jawed man.at slack-jaw (n.) under slack, n.1
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