1810 Tom Hazel ‘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.
1810 ‘Crib & the Black’ Egan 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
1812 ‘A Boxing We Will Go’ Egan Boxiana I (1971) 482: A fig for boney — let’s have done / With that ungracious name.at fig, a, n.
1812 Egan Boxiana I 19: Many a glutton has received his belly-full, and retired perfectly satisfied.at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
1812 Egan Boxiana I 167: The blue silk bird’s-eye graced the appearance of the backers of the Chicken.at bird’s eye, n.
1812 Egan 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.
1812 Egan 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.
1812 Mr. Lawson ‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 478: Whoe’er has seen Bitton behind, / Will ne’er dispute his bottom.at bottom, n.1
1812 Egan 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
1812 Mr. Lawson ‘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.
1812 Mr. Lawson ‘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.
1812 Mr. Lawson ‘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.
1812 ‘Crib and the Black’ Egan Boxiana I 481: Hark! he’s come it to old Joey Ward, he can fight a good hour.at come it, v.1
1812 Egan Boxiana I 10: We never heard that he had ever sported his Corinthian canvas as a pugilist in the open ring.at corinthian, adj.
1812 Egan Boxiana I 7: He strolled from race-grounds to fairs, endeavouring to pick up a crust as a gambler.at crust, n.1
1812 Egan Boxiana I 26: Dam’me, I am not beat, but what signifies when I cannot see my man.at damme!, excl.
1812 Mr. Lawson ‘A Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 477: All nations came to claim the prize, / Amongst them many a don, sir.at don, n.
1812 Egan 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
1812 Egan Boxiana I 4: They are not down to the ‘Sublime and Beautiful’ or up to the ‘Diversions of Purley’.at down to, adj.1
1812 Mr Lawson ‘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.
1812 Egan 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.
1812 Mr. Lawson ‘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.
1812 Egan 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.
1812 Egan 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.
1812 Mr Lawson ‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 477: He was beaten black and blue, sirs, / By one deep in the fancy lay.at lay, n.3
1812 Egan 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.
1812 Mr. Lawson ‘Chaunt’ in Egan Boxiana I 478: His honors to the last he bore, / But never bore a licking.at licking, n.
1812 Mr Lawson ‘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