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[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 60: In the Tom and Jerry shop he may recreate himself all night long with pipes, tobacco, heavy wet, and blue ruin galore.
at tom-and-jerry (shop) (n.) under tom and jerry, n.1
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 17: When the early sabbath bells announce the arrival of that day, then do the Lower Orders begin to shake off the beery slumbers of the midnight pay-table.
at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 76: Jolly good breakfast [...] Blow a cloud. Three or four grogs. [...] Jolly good supper. A couple of grogs. Another cloud.
at cloud, n.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 74: Groans of tortured cattle [...] mingled with louder curses from the gin-washed throats of ‘men’ – every man Jack of them outcrying each other.
at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 19: One shopkeeper got out upon the roof of his house with a dustman’s bell, and endeavoured to drown the sound of the church bell [...] Whether this man was a gin spinner, or not, the evidence does not state.
at gin-spinner (n.) under gin, n.4
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 77: Tom and Jerry shop. Two pots of heavy above board. Four qvort’ns of max on the sly.
at heavy wet, n.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 77: Mizzle home. Wife sings out. Give her a settler. And so turn in; – rather muzzy.
at turn in, v.1
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 63: The fairest and most intellectual portion of this beautiful world are celebrating [...] by tossing for mutton-pies, bibulating in beer-shops [....] and knocking each other over the mazzard for a qvort’n of gin!
at mazard, n.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 77: Mizzle home. Wife sings out. Give her a settler. And so turn in; – rather muzzy.
at muzzy, adj.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 21: A Sporting paper is published only on Sunday [...] denounces all police officers as public nuisances and raw lobsters.
at raw lobster (n.) under raw, adj.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 58: Hot sassengers – all hot!
at sassinger, n.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 77: Mizzle home. Wife sings out. Give her a settler. And so turn in; – rather muzzy.
at settler, n.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 59: In the gin temples [a man] can only get drunk [...] that is to say, it sews him up.
at sew up, v.
[UK] Cruikshank & Wight Sun. in London 77: Mizzle home. Wife sings out. Give her a settler. And so turn in; – rather muzzy.
at sing, v.
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