1818 T. Brown Brighton I 52: We wonder not at the noble peer’s having checked an honest tear when his friend [...] got a sheriff’s breakfast* [note] * A sheriff's breakfast is a hearty choak and a caper.at hearty choke (with caper sauce), n.
1818 T. Brown Brighton I 52: We wonder not at the noble peer’s having checked an honest tear when his friend [...] got a sheriff’s breakfast* [note] * A sheriff's breakfast is a hearty choak and a caper.at sheriff’s breakfast (n.) under sheriff, n.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 127: If he had attached to himself some bright brassy skirt, like the ones he’s seen at the Cosmopolitan.at brassy, adj.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 88: They don’t like serving me in there; I’m not class.at class, adj.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 163: It oughta be on me [...] But I’m cleaned out.at cleaned (out), adj.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 39: Ask you round the corner to split a bottle of fizz if those beggars hadn’t taken the last fiver.at fizz, n.1
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 233: He looked round for a Gents’ sign – ‘I just got to go – an’ wash’.at gents, n.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 55: He went across to the washstand and opened the little door where the jerry stood.at jerry, n.5
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 57: Leave off, Pinkie, and I’ll open up.at leave off! (excl.) under leave, v.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 80: If I hadn’t been a bit lit this wouldn’t have happened.at lit (up), adj.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 84: The kind of face a nark might have, a man who grassed to the bogies.at nark, n.1
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 162: ‘Have a drink?’ ‘No, no,’ he said [...] ‘it’s on me.’.at on, prep.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 71: The odds have shortened. There’s been a packet laid on Black Boy this week.at packet, n.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 71: He [...] planked the receiver down.at plank down (v.) under plank, v.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 166: I watched ’em every Saturday night, didn’t I? Bouncing and ploughing.at plough, v.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 112: They can’t put anything on me.at put something on (v.) under put, v.1