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‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: He’s always in twig and bang up for the game.at bang up, adv.
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: He’s always in twig and bang up for the game. ‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: No crossing for him, true courage and bottom all.at bottom, n.1
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: Your shy cocks, he shows ’em no favor, ’od rot ’em all.at shy-cock, n.
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: No crossing for him, true courage and bottom all.at cross, v.1
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: And will ne’er say enough, till he’s downright deadbeat.at deadbeat, adj.
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: Fibbing a nob is most excellent gig, my lads.at fib, v.
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: Shaking a flipper, and milling a pate.at flipper, n.1
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: With tapping of claret, and clipping and gobbing.at gob, v.
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: For the victualling office no favor he’ll ask it, / For smeller and ogles he feels just the same.at ogle, n.
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: You’ll find him a rum ’un, try on if you can.at rum one, n.
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: ’Till groggy and queery, straight forward’s the rig.at queery, adj.
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: ’Till groggy and queery, straight forward’s the rig.at rig, n.3
‘The True Bottom’d Boxer’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 74/1: Spring’s the boy for rum going and coming it.at rum, adj.
‘Daniel Dab’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 15: For if a tray of trades won’t win, / I think the deuce is in it.at deuce, n.2
‘Daniel Dab’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 15: So of a quack he learned to bleed, / And draw teeth with precision.at quack, n.1
‘Daniel Dab’ in Egan Bk of Sports (1832) 15: For if a tray of trades won’t win, / I think the deuce is in it.at tray, n.1
Bk of Sports 52: He must prove the winner, ‘Lombard Street to a China-orange’ and no mistake.at Lombard Street to a china orange, phr.
Bk of Sports 130: [note] It is York Minster to a brass farden that nothing like it can occur again till we have a new generation of the human race.at York Minster to a brass farthing, phr.
Bk of Sports 300: Neal was so much abroad that he could not make any return.at abroad, adj.
Bk of Sports 264: Never was ‘cutting and coming again’ performed in better style upon any occasion.at cut and come again, n.
Bk of Sports 50: I wish I may die, ‘if I an’t all my eye and Betty Martin’. [Ibid.] 160: Then are the tears of sorrow all ‘my eye / and Betty too’.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Bk of Sports 3: If you touch them [i.e. ghosts], it is all up with you.at all up with under all up, adj.
Bk of Sports 5: His ‘pickers and stealers,’ as the classic might call them; his fingers and hands [...] were protected from the inclemency of the rude elements by ‘white kid gloves’.at pickers and stealers, n.
Bk of Sports 8: He stuck to his own wehicle, the Age! the bang-up age; the out and out AGE!at out-and-out, adj.
Bk of Sports 3: Indeed he was [...] a complete hero on the box; and an ‘out-and-outer’ in every other point of view upon the Turf.at out-and-outer, n.
Bk of Sports 157: That tender part of poor Lalla’s person, which I should blush to mention, but which George Coleman [...] denominates ‘The head’s Antipodes’.at antipodes, n.
Bk of Sports 201: Sam [...] came up to the scratch as game as a pebble.at ...a pebble under game as..., adj.
Bk of Sports 158: That veed of all veeds, boys, the backee.at bacca, n.
Bk of Sports 190: The chaw-bacons clapping their hands; and the friends of Brown quite satisfied it was all his own.at chaw-bacon, n.
Bk of Sports n.p.: I will allow those blackguard little boys again to insult me with the prevailing, foolish, unmeaning phrase of ‘What a shocking bad hat you have got!’ if ever they lay hold of me more.at bad hat, n.
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