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Aberdeen Jrnl 4 July 2/2: I have been at sea now five and thirty years; and yet was never brought to the gang ways [...] yet what argufies that? I am worse off than a great many who have served so .at argufy, v.
Aberdeen Jrnl 4 July 2/2: I have been at sea now five and thirty years; and yet was never brought to the gang ways [...] yet what argufies that? I am worse off than a great many who have served so . Aberdeen Jrnl 16 July 6/1: He is invited by his cousin Mrs beebe, to a ‘swarry’.at swarry, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 17 Sept. 8/2: A dozen years ago [...] the Rifle had not supplanted Brown Bess.at brown bess, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 16 Sept. 8/3: There is the ‘rum prad,’ the ‘queer prancer,’ and the ‘willing tit’ [...] There is the hard trotting ‘bone-setter’.at bone-setter (n.) under bone, n.1
Aberdeen Jrnl 16 Sept. 8/3: There is the ‘rum prad,’ the ‘queer prancer,’ and the ‘willing tit’.at queer prancer (n.) under queer, adj.
Aberdeen Jrnl 16 Sept. 8/3: There is the ‘rum prad,’ the ‘queer prancer,’ and the ‘willing tit’.at rum prad (n.) under rum, adj.
Aberdeen Jrnl 27 Feb. 2/5: [headline] Quarrelling with his Bread and Butter.at quarrel with (one’s) bread and butter (v.) under bread and butter, n.1
Aberdeen Jrnl 17 Oct. 7/1: Mr Gladstone will certify [...] success to black coats and waistcoats with checvk ‘continuations’.at continuations, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 8 Oct. 6/3: The bridge had cost plenty already, and he would spend 19s, far less £19, for such humbuggery.at humbuggery, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 18 Apr. 7/6: Law’s sakes alive [...] that knife was so blunt you never could have cut your throat with it.at law sakes! (excl.) under laws!, excl.
Aberdeen Jrnl 7 Aug. 8/3: Beware of persons who having no good trade repute of their own, use our name ‘Singer’ to palm off counterfeit [sewing] machines.at palm, v.
Aberdeen Jrnl 12 Apr. 2/6: A sweet maiden of seventeen summers [...] whose blonde beau-catchers and switches have their natural root in the cuticle enveloping her classic-shaped head.at beau-catcher (n.) under beau, n.1
Aberdeen Jrnl 12 Apr. 2/6: Among her ‘mashes’ [...] is Gus Prettyboy, [...] an ulster, high-collared, square-top-hatted youth.at pretty-boy, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 7 Apr. 6/6: Hallo, old man, what’s wrong? You look pale about the gills. Sick?at white about/around/in/round the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
Aberdeen Jrnl 12 Apr. 2/6: A sweet maiden of seventeen summers [...] Among her ‘mashers’ [...] is Gus Prettyboy.at mash, n.1
Aberdeen Jrnl 22 June 7/3: [of a specific confidence trick] The pursuer [...] stated that he had about four years ago been convicted [...] of ‘selling purses,’ popularly known as ‘bouncing,’ and had been sent 30 days to prison.at bounce, v.1
(ref. to 18C) Aberdeen jrnl 3 Dec. 1/6: The precentor, who was a little old man, with a cauliflower, full-bottomed wig, such as was worn by old men in those days.at cauliflower, n.2
Aberdeen Jrnl 20 June 3/1: Fatal larking [...] Allsop accidentally stabbed the other, and he died.at larking, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 26 Dec. 12/3: The renegade retrograded to the status of ‘squawman’ [...] wherever an Indian tribe exists [...] to tolerate him and his brown spouse.at squawman, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 20 Feb. 3/6: It disna need grite rumgumption t’ fin’t oot.at rumgumption, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 5 Nov. 2/5: A beershop [...] is usually called a ‘Tom and Jerry’ .at tom-and-jerry (shop) (n.) under tom and jerry, n.1
Aberdeen Jrnl 8 May 8/7: Danged if they didn’t all jump overboard.at dang, v.
Aberdeen Jrnl 8 May 8/7: Danged if they didn’t all jump overboard and swim for land.at danged, adj.
Aberdeen Jrnl 5 Nov., 2/5: Others, unable to find the coin wherewith to obtain even a demi-doss, i.e., penny sleep .at demi-doss, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 5 Nov. 2/5: In one corner four boys are learning how to ‘knap a fogle fly’ — i.e., steal a handkerchief skilfully .at fly, adv.
Aberdeen Jrnl 3 July 8/2: I’ve a notion to wear the butt end of this musket on your fool head. You — muttonhead.at mutton-head, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 3 July 8/2: I should think that you would be so ashamed that you would sink into the earth, and come out on the other side among the Hottentots with whom you belong, you gutter snipe. Git!at Hottentot, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 5 Nov. 2/5: In one corner four boys are learning how to ‘knap a fogle fly’ — i.e., steal a handkerchief skilfully .at knap, v.
Aberdeen Jrnl 8 May 8/7: Dash my top-lights ef a thing us would a man’s hair stand on end happened.at douse my toplights! (excl.) under toplights, n.
Aberdeen Jrnl 20 Jan. 4/4: The monstrous crinoline [...] the enormous tower of false hair.at tower, n.1
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