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in Cornhill Mag. Jan–June I 548: That dam’ cat of yours has got loose, and is raising Hell and Tommy in the store-room.at play hell and tommy (v.) under hell, n.
in Cornhill Mag. Jan–June I 548: That dam’ cat of yours has got loose, and is raising Hell and Tommy in the store-room. Cornhill Mag. II 381: He was an immense screw at school [F&H].at screw, n.1
Cornhill Mag. 729: You have bowled me over, and I know I can’t get up again [F&H].at bowl over, v.
Cornhill Mag. ii 336: There are a few men and women among thieves called nosers. They are so called because they are in the secret pay of the police, giving information when the information will not lead to the crimination of themselves [F&H].at noser, n.
Cornhill Mag. vi 648: It is all in single pennifs on the England jug [F&H].at pennif, n.
Cornhill Mag. vi 640: Criminals [...] in prison and out of it... doing their separates at Pentonville and among the rocks of Gibraltar [...] [F&H].at separate, n.
Cornhill Mag. Jan. 54: But till the splice is made she’s a right to please herself .at splice, n.
Cornhill Mag. VI, 651: We are going a-flimping, buzzing, cracking, tooling, etc [F&H].at tool, v.
Cornhill Mag. in DU (1968).at backstall (n.) under back, adj.2
Cornhill Mag. Feb. n.p.: ‘Life on Board a Man of War.’ Useful at the heavy hauling of braces etc., where plenty of beef is required [F&H].at beef, n.1
Cornhill Mag. Jan. 94: ‘Beau’ Hickaman [was] a professional pensioner, or, in the elegant phraseology of the place ‘a deadbeat’ [DA].at deadbeat, n.
Cornhill Mag. vii, 91: Another notable class of criminals called jilters or Noteblankers: they go pairs [F&H].at jilter, n.
Cornhill Mag. Nov. 614: One penny loaf (a ‘penny buster’ used to be the name, perhaps is so still).at penny-buster (n.) under penny, n.
in Cornhill Mag. in DU (1968).at ring, v.
Cornhill Mag. Dec. 742: I say, Tom. Yes, mate. If I should have a fit heave a bucket of water over me. Tom was too astonished, or, as he expressed it, conflummoxed to make any reply [F&H].at flummoxed, adj.2
Cornhill Mag. Feb. 243: The younger Bohemians of my own service were a more polished breed... They were generally indeed, what used to be called Q.H.B.’s – Queen’s hard bargains – from a professional point of view .at His Majesty’s bad bargain, n.
Cornhill Mag. Sept. 342: Old sportsmen...who still use and prefer the old ‘ram and d-n’ which they wielded so effectively in their youth .at ram and dam, n.
Cornhill Mag. Apr. 450: That little busy b which invariably improves the darkness at the expense of every offering traveller [F&H].at b, n.1
Cornhill Mag. Feb. 165: The inhabitants of a certain small island, known by the nickname of Bimshire, believe, I am told, that they are the very cream of the world. They exclaim, ‘Bimshire, with all thy faults we love thee still!’.at Bim, n.
in Cornhill Mag. XXIII. 85: The ‘Ringer’, or fastest shearer of the whole assembly.at ringer, n.
Cornhill Mag. Dec. 707: ‘I must say I shouldn't like to funk a swishing as you seem to do,’ sneered Jickling, with diabolical derision. ‘I don’t funk a swishing,’ I protested, blushing up to the roots of my hair. ‘Then you funk a licking’.at swish, v.1
Cornhill Mag. Dec. 707: ‘Spankie, I want you to tick me,’ would say a young gentleman [...] ‘No, sir, I never tick’.at tick, v.1
Cornhilll Mag. 41 71: An original genius sings a song of his own composition [...] about the difficulty of obtaining leave and the longing that is in all our hearts for a return to ‘Blighty ; dear old Blighty’.at Blighty, n.
‘My Tiger Watch’ Cornhill Mag. July 🌐 Catch old Stripes come near my bullock, if he thought a ‘shooting-iron’ was anywhere about. Even if there were another Stripes, he would not show himself that night.at old stripes (n.) under old, adj.
Cornhill Mag. Oct. 412: [Heading] On being ‘Pilled’ There may be some folks who don't know — / do — what it is to be ‘pilled’.at pill, v.
Cornhill Mag. May 478: Scarecrow and atomy, what next will you call me? Yet you want to marry me! [F&H].at atomy, n.
Cornhill Mag. Jan. 111: The prudent (and sagacious) officer looked blue. But he speedily recovered himself [F&H].at blue, adj.1
in Cornhill Mag. Apr. 438: He gave us resurrection-pie; He called it beef-steak – O my eye!at resurrection pie (n.) under resurrection, n.
Cornhill Mag. June 616: Until she is pulled up by an attack of delirium tremens, or, as she and her neighbours style it, a fit of the shakes [F&H].at shakes, the, n.
Cornhill Mag. Sept. 259: Some of them beardless, others with a fringe of hair around their faces, such as the English call a Newgate frill .at Newgate collar (n.) under Newgate, n.
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