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Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 267: To be surrounded by one’s friends is in my mind the ‘Al’ of ’uman ’appiness.at A-1, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 267: To be surrounded by one’s friends is in my mind the ‘Al’ of ’uman ’appiness. Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 114: Stranger. What! you hunt, do you?Jorrocks. A few--you've perhaps heard tell of the Surrey ’unt?at few, a, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 170: I’ll give you a draft on Aldgate pump for the amount.at draft on the pump at Aldgate, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 23: Vot a swell!—vot a shocking bad hat!*—vot shocking bad breeches! *[footnote] ‘Vot a shocking bad hat!’—the slang cockney phrase of 1831.at bad hat, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 240: You gets beefey, Brackenbury [...] you must be a couple of stone heavier than when we used to talliho the ’ounds together.at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 159: Mr Bolus, the sporting doctor.at bolus, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 240: But you’re looking fresh. Time lays a light hand on your bearing-reins! I hope it will be long ere you are booked by the Gravesend Buss.at booked by the Gravesend bus (adj.) under book, v.1
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 12: His friend and neighbour old B——, the tinker, plies his little mare with the Brummagems.at Brummagem, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 262: Now for the grouse! [...] Hope you havn’t burked your appetites, gentlemen, so as not to be able to do justice to them.at burke, v.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 168: In attempting to reach the side
of the boat, he cascaded over the sergeant, and they rolled over each
other, senseless and helpless upon deck.at cascade, v.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 234: She’s always on the road, and lives now by the flats she catches between Paris and the coast.at flat-catcher, n.1
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 108: Mr. Badchild proposed the game of ‘Chicken-hazard’.at chicken, adj.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 200: I’m nearly cleaned out, and shall be in Short’s Gardens before I know where I am.at cleaned (out), adj.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 21: I’ll put you on a most undeniable bit of ’orse-flesh—a reg’lar clipper.at clipper, n.2
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 43: No one ever saw him do a cock tail action in his life.at cock-tail, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 115: JorrocksYou’ve perhaps heard tell of the Surrey ’unt? Stranger. Cocktail affair, isn’t it?at cock-tail, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 49: Drab shorts and continuations.at continuations, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 97: ‘Short-odds Richards’ on a long-backed crocodile-looking rosinante.at crocodile, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 171: I’ll order pistols and coffee for two to-morrow
morning at Napoleon's column, and let the daylight through your carcas.at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 104: The man next him, all teeth and hair, like a rat-catcher’s dog, is an Honourable by birth.at all ribs and dick like a robber’s dog under dick, n.1
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 127: I’ve a dickey and a clean front for to-morrow.at dicky, n.1
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 274: Let me be paymaster, or I know you’ll soon be into dock again.at in dock (adj.) under dock, n.2
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 238: My covey, if you don’t draw it a little milder, I’ll send my ’osses [...] through my friend Sir William Jolliffe’s fields to the other side of your shop.at draw it mild, v.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 104: The chaps about him [...] were in the duffing line—sold brimstoned sparrows for canary-birds, Norwich shawls for real Cashmere, and dried cabbage-leaves for cigars.at duffing, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 94: With the exception of a little ‘elbow shaking’ in the evening, there is [...] nothing else to do.at shake one’s elbow (v.) under elbow, n.1
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 260: Before you attack the grouse [...] take the hedge [i.e. edge] off your appetites, or else there won't be enough, and, you know, it does not do to eat the farmer after the gentlemen.at eat the farmer after the gentleman under farmer, n.2
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 167: Just at which moment the boat gave a roll, and he wound up the inquiry by a donation to the fishes.at feed the fishes (v.) under feed, v.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 119: There was nothing gammonacious, as I calls it, about his toggery. [Ibid.] 121: Never was so done in all my life—a gammonacious fellow!at gammonacious (adj.) under gammon, n.2
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 200: I’m nearly cleaned out, and shall be in Short’s Gardens before I know where I am.at Short’s Gardens, n.
Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 134: Green ran his fingers through the bushy sides of his yellow wig, jerked up his gills, and [...] strutted up to that inn.at gills, n.1
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