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Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 30 Mar. 4/1: A servant maid was [...] taken up and committed to Bridewell, for robbing.at take up, v.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 30 Mar. 4/1: A servant maid was [...] taken up and committed to Bridewell, for robbing. Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 25 Sept. 4/1: Song on Shakespeare’s Birthday by Dr Catgut [...] Five and Forty Fiddlers, all in a row!at catgut, n.1
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 2 Dec. 1/2: If [the palace] does not vie with Versailles for richness, it beats it hollow in perfect cleanliness.at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 18 May 1/1: The King’s spech [...] was spoken with great eloquence and dignity, but the buzz of the Court did not allow it to be distinctly heard.at buzz, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 9 Mar. 2/2: He admitted that he had been introduced [...] as a Clergyman, but that he was not entitled to the appellation of Reverend, as ‘he was no cushion-thumper’.at cushion-thumper (n.) under cushion, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: I’ve taken a drop too much of the good cretur, and got sickish or so.at creature, the, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: So come on, my boy; I’ll throw slush to the tune of their dirt I’ll be bound.at dirt, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: All the folks in Lunnun was laughing in their sleeves at the Wiltshire Johnny Raws getting jockied at that rate by Wellesley, as was know’d to be done up clear and clean.at do up, v.1
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: Back he comes, and fills his platter and his glass, and then funks it, and asks pardon of old Titus.at funk, v.2
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: I’m a Hackney Coachman of the true St Giles breed.at St Giles’s breed (n.) under St Giles, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: Cousin John, hang me, but you beats us Lununers.at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: Honest Jarvey, that’s nothing to nobody.at jarvey, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: All the folks in Lunnun was laughing in their sleeves at the Wiltshire johnny Raws getting jockied at that rate by Wellesley.at jockey, v.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: My Old Heart and Titus Trueman, against My Old Moonraker, and Toby Tosspot.at moon-raker, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: This here girl opened her potato trap upon me.at potato-trap (n.) under potato, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 June 3: He won’t have to lug out the ready for bringing up his voters.at ready, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 8 Feb. 2/4: A woman was charged with having stolen a pair of shoes; whereupon she exclaimed, ‘May God strike me blind this moment if I ever saw the shoes!’.at strike me blind! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 14 Nov. 3/3: ‘The Frosty Reception,’ [...] is a humorous delineation of intrusive civility and undisguised disapprobation.at frosty, adj.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 15 June 2/5: This here defendant is vat va calls in our perfession ‘a shy cock,’ cause you sees as how he vorks on the ‘cross’ .at shy-cock, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 15 June 2/5: This here defendant is vat va calls in our perfession ‘a shy cock,’ cause you sees as how he vorks on the ‘cross’ .at on the cross under cross, n.1
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 15 June 2/5: Barney goes up to kick up a shindy, and gits a rum ’un for himself.at rum one, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 19 Nov. 3: The fellow was [...] carried in triumph about the neighbourhood, with his face blackened, so as to appear a regular ‘Jim Crow’.at Jim Crow, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 15 Oct. 7/4: Beggars’ Marks [...] Bone (good). Safe for a ‘cold tatur’.at bone, adj.1
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 15 Oct. 7/4: Beggars’ Marks [...] ‘Cheese your patur (don’t talk too much) here’.at cheese, v.1
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 15 Oct. 7/4: Beggars’ Marks [...] Coopered (spoiled) by too many tramps calling here.at coopered, adj.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 15 Oct. 7/4: Beggars’ Marks [...] Flummuxed (dangerous) sure of a month in quod.at flummoxed, adj.1
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 30 Apr. 3/3: The plan is to inquire the way [...] simulating deafness, for the purpose of getting near the pockets of their victims; and the abstraction of the watches (which the thieves term ‘super screwing,’ from the slang of ‘super,’ a watch).at super, n.2
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 25 Aug. 3/4: When Ike began to learn music [...] the constant screamer was his favourite instrument.at constant screamer, n.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 31 Mar. 2/6: He was of the opinion that the Pope ought to be [...] left perfectly at liberty to wallop his own niggers,’ and, [...] that ‘a little walloping would do the said niggers no harm’.at walloping (n.) under wallop, v.
Salisbury & Winchester Jrnl 9 May 7/1: On the backs of the rich was the fleece that came from the farm of Johnny Whoptrsaw [Laughter].at whopstraw (n.) under straw, n.
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