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Beggars 47: The sole occupation of a barrel-house stiff is to stand outside public-houses waiting for invitations to drink [...] There is not often more than one or two barrel stiffs to one house.at barrel-boarder, n.
Beggars 47: The sole occupation of a barrel-house stiff is to stand outside public-houses waiting for invitations to drink [...] There is not often more than one or two barrel stiffs to one house. Beggars 103: The wandering beggar says ‘skimish’ for drink, but city beggars say ‘bouse’.at bouse, n.
Beggars 207: The man that owns a pedlar’s certificate – which is known as ‘a brief’ – is [...] the most successful.at brief, n.1
Beggars 251: I had Liverpool Nora and Brummagem Sal at my side.at Brummagem, n.
Beggars 148: This was certainly good, for it was all bunts (profit).at bunce, n.
Beggars 103: Wandering beggars say ‘call.’ For instance, ‘it is a good road to call,’ or ‘there is plenty of calling’.at call, v.
Beggars 50: Others, more kind and considerate, would take what was offered and give it to some poor shovel stiff (navvy) out of work, or a fresh cat (new beginner).at fresh cat (n.) under fresh, adj.2
Beggars 104: Spectacles – glims.at glim, n.
Beggars 104: Sing – griddle or chant.at griddle, v.
Beggars 104: House – kennel.at kennel, n.2
Beggars 46: Then there is the mission stiff [...] if he was in any place where there was no mission-room he would be likely to starve.at mission stiff (n.) under mission, n.
Beggars 104: Beggars – travellers or needies.at needy, n.
Beggars 214: I have seen an exceptional navvy that had the impudence to stand pad in a crowded market-place.at stand pad (v.) under pad, n.1
Beggars 279: My grandmother [...] must make a confidant of a thoughtless boy, or, to use her own words – ‘a little black and a rodney.’.at rodney, n.1
Beggars 205: Nearly all the men that live in common lodging-houses talk to each other in this strain, for they are all more or less short-tempered, or, as they say – ‘scatty’.at scatty, adj.
Beggars 213: They are always washing clothes and making shackles.at shackles, n.
Beggars 67: He is quite as extravagant as the man of long voyages, and is quite as easily fleeced by land-sharks.at land shark (n.) under shark, n.
Beggars 42: Shovel stiff is the name applied by tramps to navvies and railroad workers. If one of the latter enters a tramps’ camp, being out of work, [...] his presence is not wanted.at shovel stiff (n.) under shovel, n.1
Beggars 104: Pictures – smuts.at smut, n.
Beggars 42: In America the noun stiff is [...] a term of scorn for hard-working men and others. For instance, one is called a ‘shovel stiff,’ another a ‘cattle stiff’.at cattle stiff (n.) under stiff, n.1
Beggars 104: On the road – on the toe.at on the toe under toe, n.
Beggars 12: ‘Wingy,’ who had lost an arm.at wingy, n.
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