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The Swell’s Night Guide choose

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[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide K2: Angels, young unmarried women.
at angel, n.
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: ‘Who the h-- are you?’ &c. and which, if returned [...] answered by ‘Ax my a---,’ or some such elegant retort.
at ask my...!, excl.
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K2: Barker, Jewish assistant.
at barker, n.1
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Miles’s Boy, Nobody.
at miles’s boy, n.
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: The Swells are expected to deposit their tin for the provision of ‘bacca and broseleys’.
at broseley, n.
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: In Jessop, the proprietor, the green Sell will find a mentor and adviser, and the old buck an agreeable and witty companion.
at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: From the aristocratic nymph of Pentonville Hill, to the poor bush ranger or hedge prowler of Highgate Fields.
at bushranger (n.) under bush, n.1
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: She has been honoured with the protection of one of the first noblemen in the land, and is a ‘leading card’ in every place of public entertainment [...] beauty like hers is not to be bought for a trifle.
at leading card, n.
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K3: Cooler, or Damper, a glass of porter.
at damper, n.1
[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide K: Duffers Petty Swindlers.
at duffer, n.1
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: His parlour is [...] visited not only by every man of note belonging to that class of characters called ‘the fancy,’ but by a numerous and highly respectable company of neighbouring tradesmen.
at Fancy, the, n.
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K2: Blow the Gab, to inform against a person.
at blow the gab (v.) under gab, n.1
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: No Go A Failure.
at no go, n.
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: From the aristocratic nymph of Pentonville Hill, to the poor bush ranger or hedge prowler of Highgate Fields.
at hedge prowler (n.) under hedge, adj.
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: ‘Who the h-- are you?’ &c. and which, if returned [...] answered by ‘Ax my a---,’ or some such elegant retort.
at who the hell...?, phr.
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: It is not an unusual thing to witness Jack with a doxy on each knee.
at jack, n.1
[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide K2: Ken A Low Drinking Room.
at ken, n.1
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: The dance was followed by an out-and-out song by Mike Hunt, whose name was called out in a way that must not be mentioned to ears polite].
at michael, n.
[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide K3: Monkey Up Violent Passion.
at get one’s monkey up (v.) under monkey, n.
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Nummer, A Low Vagabond.
at nummer, n.
[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Oil of Barley Whiskey.
at oil of barley (n.) under oil of..., n.
[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Patter Slang.
at patter, n.
[UK] F.L.G. Swells Night Out n.p.: The incipient pugilists were certainly ‘plucked ones’.
at plucked ’un (n.) under pluck, n.1
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Pull, having an advantage.
at pull, n.
[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Rum-ti-Tum, excellent.
at rumtitum, adj.
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Scroof, living at others expense.
at scroof, v.
[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Shark A Lawyer.
at shark, n.
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K3: Stand Sammy, to treat.
at stand (the) sam (v.) under stand, v.2
[UK] ‘F.L.G.’ Swell’s Night Guide (K4) 220: On the Mallett Goods on Tick.
at on tick under tick, n.3
[UK] ‘F.L.G’ Swell’s Night Guide K4: Tippy As it Ought to Be.
at tippy, adj.
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