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Leics. Mercury 4 Nov. 2/4: Her landlord [...] Mr. W said that, finding she was about to ‘shove the moon,’ (in more polite language, about to depart without paying the rent,) he laid an embrago on her boxes.at shove the moon (v.) under shove, v.
Leics. Mercury 4 Nov. 2/4: Her landlord [...] Mr. W said that, finding she was about to ‘shove the moon,’ (in more polite language, about to depart without paying the rent,) he laid an embrago on her boxes. Leics. Mercury 18 Aug. 4/2: The steamboat Knoxville burst her boilers [...] We know the boat. she was a mere rattle-trap.at rattletrap, n.
Leics. Mercury 16 Sept. 1/8: Now if Mr ‘Anti-humbug’ be so very wise and learned as he pretends to be, and if he be not a ‘journeyman parson’ [...] let him answer.at journeyman soul-saver, n.
Leics. Mercury 22 Aug. 4/5: The fat-headed Protectionists share in Partridge’s views.at fat-headed, adj.
Leics. Mercury 19 Aug. 3/4: Jackson [...] with two black eyes, and having torn up his clothes, must have appeared in his ‘birth-day suit’.at birthday suit, n.
Leics. Mercury 15 Jan. 4/1: It was no ancient fisherman / Who found this wonderous prize; / But a pale, high-browed student. / With bright and earnest eyes / who sought [...] the heart of nature’s mysteries.at highbrow, adj.
Leics. Mercury 22 Sept. 1/5: [from NY Sun. Times] Then there’s Irish and Scotch and John Bulls and niggers and yaller bellies.at yellow belly, n.
Leics. Mercury 9 June 1/6: Mr Bennett is a dead hand at a bargain.at dead hand (n.) under dead, adj.
New Eng. Washingtonian in Leics. Mercury 26 Jan. 4/5: There are [...] a large number of young men who lack every attribute that distinguishes the good citizen. They may be found in the bar-room, the blowing-alley, at the racecourse, lounging the corners of the streets, staring out countenance every woman who passes, their mouths filled with tobacco, their breaths reeking with spirit, and their language compound of slang, profanity, and obscenity. They have been known during the past few years various names—the swell-mob, soap-locks, &c. ; but, last a generic name for the whole class has been hit upon, and they have been christened ‘b’hoys’.at b’hoy, n.
New Eng. Washingtonian in Leics. Mercury 26 Jan. 4/5: There are [...] a large number of young men who lack every attribute that distinguishes the good citizen. [...] They have been known during the past few years various names—the swell-mob, soap-locks, &c. ; but, last a generic name for the whole class has been hit upon, and they have been christened ‘b’hoys’.at swell mob, n.
Leics. Mercury 19 Apr. 3/7: This is a corker, said one. This is a clipper, said another.at clipper, n.2
Leics. Mercury 19 Apr. 3/7: This is a corker, said one. This is a clipper, said another.at corker, n.2
Leics. Mercury 26 June 3/5: Ten persons left this town for Australia on Tuesday last. One young man who has been brought up ‘on the carpet’, has taken a pickaxe and a spade, which he ‘calculates’ will be service to him.at calculate, v.
Leics. Mercury 26 June 3/5: Ten persons left this town for Australia on Tuesday last. One young man who has been brought up ‘on the carpet’, has taken a pickaxe and a spade, which he ‘calculates’ will be service to him.at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
Leics. Mercury 8 May 3/2: The Tories [...] assure us that the Derby Cabinet will be eternal if the following ifs all come up trumps.at come up trumps (v.) under come up, v.1
Leics. Mercury 24 July 1/5-6: [of a rape] Stones told Bent to ‘hook it, for he would not have her again that night.’ [...] Stones repeated the offence [...] ‘ You — I’ve had you first and I’ve had you second.’ [...] The learned judge summed up [...] ‘There were the remarks of the man, such as “I’ve had you once, twice, and I’ll have you again”’.at have, v.
Leics. Mercury 12 Mar. 3/6: He charged the sleeping partner of the ‘snitcher’ in Grant’s case with easing him of the money.at snitcher, n.2
Leics. Mercury 28 Jan. 4/3: His mistake proved a regular ‘eye-opener’ for him.at eye-opener, n.1
Leics. Mercury 23 Oct. 8/2: Thomas, alias ‘Hoppy Berridge‘, remanded on a charge of passing a counterfeit florin.at hoppy, n.2
Leics. Mercury 19 June 2/6: A little ‘shenanigan’ was perpetrated for the benefit of those behind the curtain.at shenanigan, n.
Leics. Mercury 30 July 6/5: If you do not stop your — gab [...] I will cut your — head off.at stop your gab! (excl.) under gab, n.1
Leics. Mercury 30 Nov. 2/4: [headline] A Real ‘Smack’ on the Kisser.at kisser, n.
Leics. Mercury 24 Aug. 8/5: he heard one of the yankee officers say they would lick John Bull into fits, lick Napoleon into fits, and lick creation into fits.at lick into fits (v.) under lick, v.1
Leics. Mercury 30 Nov. 2/4: [headline] A Real ‘Smack’ on the Kisser.at smack, n.1
Leics. Mercury 10 May 2/1: And that her sight is good to me / Is just as sure as shooting.at sure as shooting under sure as..., phr.
Leics. Mercury 3 May 2/3: King of Prussia, mind your eye, / Rukle not with a hand too high / or you’ll be obliged to fly.at mind your eye! (excl.) under eye, n.
Leics. Mercury 19 Mar. 2/1: He describes a man as being [...] so darnation ugly.at darnation, adv.
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