1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 369: Logic [...] was interrupted in his pursuit by a jack-o’dandy hero, who also quizzed the Oxonian with the appellation of ‘Old Barnacles’.at jack-a-dandy, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 204: So an old abbess, for rattling rakes, / A tempting dish of human nature makes, / And dresses up a luscious maid: / I rather should have said, indeed, undresses.at abbess, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 391: jerry [...] now positively began to droop – his spirits were getting very low – he was ‘out of wind’ – ‘all to pieces’ – the day and night work had been too much for him, and, all of a sudden, he was completely ‘beat to a stand-still’.at all to pieces, adj.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 312: Who’s to understand it? vy it’s full of pothooks and hangers.at pothooks (and hangers), n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 111: [note] The latter in smacking her lips, talks of her prime jackey, an out-and-out concern, and a bit of good truth.at out-and-out, adj.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 70: He was denominated an out-and-outer as far as the character of a man went.at out-and-outer, n.
1821 Egan Life in London 43: He was denominated as an out and outer [note] A phrase in the sporting world for goodness; a sort of climacteric – the ne plus ultra.at out-and-outer, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 265: Come, Lummy, let us toddle to the Pig and Tinder-box.at Pig and Tinder-box, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 310: But he praised so highly a cargo of Daffy, which he had just received from the nonpareil, that Daffy and water was the preferred suit.at suit and cloak, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 52: Waltzing with the angelics at my Lady Fubb’s assembly.at angelic, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 374: You ought not [...] return to Hawthorn Hall without taking a peep at the Cadgers, at the Noah’s Ark, to use the slang of the Oxonian, in the back slums, in the Holy Land.at Noah’s (ark), n.2
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 91: The ‘Neat Article,’ remarked for being a good time-ist in calling upon a very slight acquaintance at the juncture of meal-times.at article, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 191: Some of these fancy articles [...] have been so expensive in ‘Life’ in London that even the most inexhaustible purse of a personage of very high rank was found to be insufficient.at article, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1830) 146: Tom, laughingly, told Primefit, that he had not been so well backed for a long time. The knight of the thimble gave a polite nod.at backed, adj.2
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 84–5: A kind of cant phraseology is current from one end of the Metropolis to the other. Indeed, even in the time of Lord Chesterfield, he complained of it. In some females of the highest rank, it is as strongly marked, as in dingy draggled-tailed sall, who is compelled to dispose of a few sprats to turn an honest penny: and while the latter in smacking her lips, talks of her prime jackey, and out-and-out concern, and a bit of good truth, &c. the former, in her dislikes, tossing her head, observes, it was shocking, quite a bore, beastly, stuff, &c.at beastly, adj.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 259: The flue-faker will drop his bender with as much pluck as the honourable does his fifty.at bender, n.1
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 227: [note] Nine times out of ten the Watchmen ‘get the best’ of the night-charges.at get the best of it (v.) under best (of it), n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 223: ‘My dear Coz. The charley had the “best of us” last time, at Bow-Street, but we have got the best of him now, and therefore let us keep it!’ The above cant phrase puzzled jerry considerably when it was first made use of by tom. [Ibid.] 260: The Plate is a correct representation of the animation displayed upon this subject by the gay tyke-boys; and most of their nobs for low cunning are able to get the ‘best of’ the keenest barrister in the kingdom.at best, v.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 300: jerry [...] felt more than a little embarrassment on finding himself […] running against Marquisses and their better halves.at better half, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 207: However, my girls, you may be amused, never suffer yourselves to be bilked.at bilk, v.
1821 Egan Life in London (1830) 47: [fancy-piece] A sporting phrase for a ‘bit of nice game,’ kept in a preserve in the suburbs. A sort of Bird of Paradise!at bird, n.1
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 99: Logic had a complete map of the Isles of Bishop and Flip.at bishop, n.2
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 89: The soi-disant ‘bit of blood,’ whose ideas of taste and elegance drove everything out of his head.at bit of blood (n.) under bit, n.1
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 220: Nan has nearly knocked the coffee out of the black diamond’s hand.at black diamond (n.) under black, adj.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) n.p.: Vhen she comes back b—t me if Bill vasn’t a-playing at skittles.at blast, v.1
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 371: I know it is rather a dangerous passage, particularly for blinkers.at blinkers, n.
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 193: The young blood in search of adventures.at young blood (n.) under blood, n.2
1821 Egan Life in London (1869) 202: He lives in good style; owing to the great success he has had in repeatedly blowing up both the young and the old at Point Nonplus.at blow up, v.1
1821 Egan Life in London (2 edn) 182: Frowsy Sall [...] is blowing up the nasty fellow for his imperance; and says she will smash his topper, if he attempts to take any more liberties with her person.at blow up, v.1