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In Strange Company 7: She grabs all they earn [...] and punches them about orful cos they don’t bring her more.at awful, adv.
In Strange Company 7: She grabs all they earn [...] and punches them about orful cos they don’t bring her more. In Strange Company 77: Music-hall tunes, I mean. They’re werry lively; but there’s a sort of ‘slap-bang’ about ’em all that don’t agree with everybody. It isn’t so respectable as the old tunes.at slap-bang, adv.
In Strange Company 310: They were takers out most of these early birds.at early bird, n.1
In Strange Company 223: ‘Oh, blarm it, marm,’ he said, bringing his great hand down with such a thump.at blame it!, excl.
In Strange Company 203: He merely made cheery response that he was ‘bobbish’.at bobbish, adj.
In Strange Company 26: The most favourite entertainment at this place is known as a ‘buff-ball,’ in which both sexes – innocent of clothing – madly join, stimulated with raw whisky and the music of a fiddle and a tin whistle.at buff-ball (n.) under buff, n.1
In Strange Company 41: It is seldom, however, than an opportunity occurs for his indulging in what [...] he calls a ‘reg’ler buster’.at buster, n.2
In Strange Company 17: What one in vain looked for was the ‘jolly beggar’ [...] who scorns work because he can ‘make’ in a day three times the wages of an honest mechanic by the simple process of ‘cadging’.at cadging, n.
In Strange Company 208: When they’re reg’ler [...] we chucks in Sundays.at chuck in, v.
In Strange Company 131: A ruffian, being uncertain as to the morning when he is to have, as he himself would say, ‘claws for breakfast,’ is in the habit of lying night after night in a sweat of terror.at claws for breakfast (n.) under claw, n.
In Strange Company 255: If one ain’t enough, let three or four of ’em go in Co. and do it.at in co under co, n.3
In Strange Company 206: ‘Dash it all!’ said the Deputy.at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
In Strange Company 152: Master Muggins is but a type of hundreds and thousands who crowd the Ditch on the Sabbath.at Ditch, the, n.2
In Strange Company 238: They had come for a ‘drunk,’ and would probably indulge in half-a-dozen more pipes before the evening was over.at drunk, n.
In Strange Company 9: He’s a fizzer on the whistle [...] The tin-whistle – don’t yer know?at fizzer, n.1
In Strange Company 81: The wofully-shabby few [...] swigged pots of fourpenny.at fourpenny, n.
In Strange Company 2: Encouraged by the cries of ‘Go it, Ginger!’ yelled by his admiring friends, the red-haired boy presently finished his antagonist.at ginger, n.1
In Strange Company 255: Lookee here: I’m a man that’s willin’ to do my twelvemonth’s hard labour for a thousand pounds.at lookee here!, excl.
In Strange Company 10: ‘Sometimes you steal?’ ‘Oh! come, yer know you’re a-comin’ it a little too hot now.’.at hot, adj.
In Strange Company 29: The houses which affect the peculiar branch of the lodging business in question are known as ‘hot-water houses’ [...] About twenty in a room is the expected number and they lie in their own rags on the ground [...] The majority of these hot-water lodgers are cadgers and beggars by profession. It is not invariably because they cannot afford it, that they do not patronise the fourpenny houses, but rather they would sooner ‘pig’ together on the boards than lie in separate beds.at hot-water house, n.
In Strange Company 7: She wasn’t very big because of her humpty back.at humpy, adj.1
In Strange Company 25: Any boy guilty of ‘larking,’ or in anyway disturbing the sober propriety [...] is instantly banished.at lark, v.
In Strange Company 176: ‘Do you have any trouble with them?’ I asked of the foreman. ‘Nothing worse than larking,’ he replied.at larking, n.
In Strange Company 339: I mean to lush well along the road.at lush, v.
In Strange Company 7: A lushing, fightin’ sort of a woman, who wuss worse than a scalded cat to them about her when the drink was in her.at lushing, adj.
In Strange Company 282: A select circle of admiring ‘magsmen’.at magsman, n.
In Strange Company 152: Master Muggins is but a type of hundreds and thousands who crowd the Ditch on the Sabbath.at muggins, n.1
In Strange Company 59: One little boy told me [...] that he had ‘done three months at Maidstone’ for ‘nailin’ two glasses of sweetstuff out of a shop’.at nail, v.
In Strange Company 203: His hair was long and lank, and so beautifully oiled as to defeat the young man’s intention to ‘curl it under,’ after the approved ‘Newgate knocker’ fashion.at Newgate knocker (n.) under Newgate, n.
In Strange Company 7: I’d rather be without a mother than have a oner like her.at oner, n.
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