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‘Multum in Parvo’ in Egan Boxiana I 480: Fair play to the parties was shewn, you’ll admit, / Though Blackee was strong, with Crib could not hit.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
‘Multum in Parvo’ in Egan Boxiana I 480: Fair play to the parties was shewn, you’ll admit, / Though Blackee was strong, with Crib could not hit. ‘Crib & the Black’ Boxiana I (1971) 481: Ye swells, ye flash, ye milling coves, who this hard light see, / Let us drink to these heroes, come join along with me.at flash, n.1
Boxiana I 136: Several blows exchanged, but no corks were drawn.at draw a cork, v.1
‘A Boxing We Will Go’ Boxiana I (1971) 482: A fig for boney — let’s have done / With that ungracious name.at fig, a, n.
Boxiana I 19: Many a glutton has received his belly-full, and retired perfectly satisfied.at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
Boxiana I 167: The blue silk bird’s-eye graced the appearance of the backers of the Chicken.at bird’s eye, n.
Boxiana I 5: [note] The swell tinman, hooper [...] was considered as to size, one of the best ‘bits of stuff’ in the kingdom.at bit of stuff, n.
Boxiana I 26: It being considered a difficult task to beat such a bottom man as Whitaker in so short a space of time.at bottom, adj.
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 478: Whoe’er has seen Bitton behind, / Will ne’er dispute his bottom.at bottom, n.1
Boxiana I 6: [note] His Lordship was very fond of larking, and whenever he could not come through the piece in style, hooper appeared as his bully [...] and many a time he has saved his patron a good milling.at bully, n.1
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 477: No tainted Miller could he stand / Right sound must be his Cat’s meat.at cat’s meat, n.
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 477: But of his hogshead he was shy, / lest they should tap his claret.at tap someone’s claret (v.) under claret, n.
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 478: But yet, when all the truth is told / Some rank him with the shy cocks.at shy-cock, n.
‘Crib and the Black’ Boxiana I 481: Hark! he’s come it to old Joey Ward, he can fight a good hour.at come it, v.1
Boxiana I 10: We never heard that he had ever sported his Corinthian canvas as a pugilist in the open ring.at corinthian, adj.
Boxiana I 7: He strolled from race-grounds to fairs, endeavouring to pick up a crust as a gambler.at crust, n.1
Boxiana I 26: Dam’me, I am not beat, but what signifies when I cannot see my man.at damme!, excl.
‘A Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I
477: All nations came to claim the prize, / Amongst them many a don, sir.at don, n.
Boxiana I 7: The absolute necessity to men, in such an uncertain way of life, before they are completely done up, of ‘making hay while the sun shines’.at done up, adj.1
Boxiana I 4: They are not down to the ‘Sublime and Beautiful’ or up to the ‘Diversions of Purley’.at down to, adj.1
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 478: So neatly fibs the Israelite / To ev’ry stander by, sirs, / Who must allow it is a sight, / Worth well a Jew’s eye, sirs.at Jew’s eye, n.
Boxiana I 1: The Fancy [...] simply means, any person who is fond of a particular amusement, or closely attached to some subject; a lively instance fortunately presents itself in illustrating the phrase beyond all doubt — as the old woman observed, when she kissed her cat, that it was ‘her fancy’.at Fancy, the, n.
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 477: Who could not bear his hide well tann’d, / Was quite unfit for that seat.at tan someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
Boxiana I 6: [note] His Lordship was very fond of larking.at lark, v.
Boxiana I 9: The late Lord B— [...] about the year 1789 was in the very zenith of his fun, frolic, and lark-ery.at larkery, n.
Boxiana I 6: [note] His Lordship was fond of larking, and whenever he could not come through the piece in style, Hooper appeared as his bully.at larking, n.
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 477: He was beaten black and blue, sirs, / By one deep in the fancy lay.at lay, n.3
Boxiana I 25: Bob now punished him in fine style, drove the Venetian all over the stage, and soon gave him a leveller.at leveller, n.
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 478: His honors to the last he bore, / But never bore a licking.at licking, n.
‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 477: Come list ye all ye fighting Gills, / And Coves of boxing note, sirs, / Whilst I relate some bloody Mills, / In our time have been fought, sirs.at mill, n.1
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