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Echo I n.p.: I say, let’s go home, Pompey!at Pompey, n.
Echo I n.p.: I say, let’s go home, Pompey! Echo 11 Oct. n.p.: Dealers who if they chance to see a likely purchaser in the crowd will forthwith commence to make false offers – termed ‘jollying’ – for their own horses when brought up for auction.at jolly, v.
Echo 10 Mar. n.p.: Then [...] the heart-broken man exclaimed, Oh, George, George, why did you peg out? [F&H].at peg out, v.
Echo 4 Dec. n.p.: Calf, cow and bull week. We find a good illustration of the beneficial influence of the Factory Acts in the reports of the Government Inspectors just issued. The district inspector expresses the hope that the measures which he took against some offenders in bull week last year will extinguish for good and all this absurd and illogical custom [F&H].at calf week (n.) under calf, n.1
Echo 15 May n.p.: ‘What do you mean by telling me that you will take it away for a kick?’ ‘Wot I say; I’ll do the job for sixpence’ [F&H].at kick, n.2
Echo 30 July n.p.: A model of perfection had she not shown more than necessary partiality to her elder friend’s brandy bottle [...] despite the latter’s oft-repeated caution not to become groggy [F&H].at groggy, adj.
Fort Griffin [TX] Echo 3 Jan. n.p.: [A sheep man is] a tramp, an ingrate, a ‘Nester,’ and a liar [R].at nester, n.
advert in Echo 10 May 46: Busking – A player on the harp and violin wants a mate [F&H].at busk, v.
Echo 1 Nov. 4/2: Golding [...] purchased Passaic from F. Archer for a century [F&H].at century, n.
Echo 7 Feb. 4, col. 3: Witness asked him what he had been drinking. He replied, ‘Two half-goes of rum hot and a half-pint of beer.’ [F&H].at half-go (n.) under go, n.1
Echo 18 Apr. 1/5: Pity the sorrows of a poor flunkey! [...] Who would have thought, to see john thomas [...] sunning himself on the forms provided for his use outside the shops in Regent Street, that he was a sufferer from many hours of confinement indoors [F&H].at John Thomas, n.
Echo 7 Apr. 3/1: The Oxford men were now all to pieces! Their boat was full of water [F&H].at all to pieces, adj.
Echo 7 May 1/4: Another phenomenal witness, a ‘bus’ conductor, did not even know what nursing rivals meant [F&H].at nurse, v.
Echo 5 Sept. n.p.: Surely such a wine was never given at Oxford in any gentleman’s room [F&H].at wine, n.1
Echo 26 Mar. n.p.: So alarmed at the prospect of being wigged from home [F&H].at wig, v.1
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