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Low-Life Deeps 269: A man might as well hawk [...] ketch-’em-live-oh’s.at catch ’em (all) alive-o, n.
Low-Life Deeps 269: A man might as well hawk [...] ketch-’em-live-oh’s. Low-Life Deeps 309: The willain will nail him as sure as eggs ain’t chickens!at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Low-Life Deeps 72: These places are resorted to by dealers only – those who collect old wearing apparel – the ‘bagmen’ who are of the lingering race of London street criers.at bagman, n.
Low-Life Deeps 285: Summat had gone wrong with his bellus.at bellows, n.
Low-Life Deeps 90: A hearty, John Bull kind of man .at John Bull, adj.1
Low-Life Deeps 80: Billingsgate is the theatre of our observation of the Bummaree.at bummaree, n.
Low-Life Deeps 213: It’s summat in the mortar that works its way into your cistern, and that’s what’ll bunnick up old Cooper.at bunnick (up), v.
Low-Life Deeps 218: ‘Bust and beggar and double bust the blessed threepenny!’ roared the youth rebelliously.at bust!, excl.
Low-Life Deeps 219: It would be a reg’lar insult to the stars to go to ’em and consult ’em at such a cag-mag price.at cagmag, adj.
Low-Life Deeps 309: Just picter my old gal being got over by an old guy with a pack o’ cards, and chisselled out of sixpence.at chisel, v.
Low-Life Deeps 14: Not a short pipe, but a regular full-length ‘churchwarden’.at churchwarden, n.
Low-Life Deeps 187: It was like throwing water on a sand heap the gin they swallowed, and there appeared not the least indication of their ‘clay’ being a bit moister at the conclusion.at moisten the clay (v.) under clay, n.
Low-Life Deeps 254: You come to see me that evenin’ when I was in the coal-scuttle.at coal-scuttle (n.) under coal, n.1
Low-Life Deeps 254: We calls him Old Crabshells, because of the uncommon large size of his shoes.at crab-shells (n.) under crab, n.1
Low-Life Deeps 18: It’s danged hard if the dawg can’t carry home her own meat.at danged, adv.
Low-Life Deeps 216: A big bagfull of damaged cockshy toys [...] bought in the ‘ditch’ (Houndsditch).at Ditch, the, n.2
Low-Life Deeps 55: He pensively regarded her draggle-tailed ladyship on the tub.at draggle-tailed, adj.
Low-Life Deeps 163: [It is] a common belief amongst omnibus conductors that so long as, to use a phrase of their own, they ‘draw it mild’ [...] their known peculiarites are winked at.at draw it mild, v.
Low-Life Deeps 62: She’s a dress-woman, that’s what she is.at dress-lodger (n.) under dress, n.
Low-Life Deeps 250: You won’t funk me by talking about ends.at funk, v.2
Low-Life Deeps 309: Just picter my old gal being got over by an old guy with a pack o’ cards.at get over, v.1
Low-Life Deeps 308: But swelp me goodness! if I was a lord of a manor and I wanted to screw a penny out of a poor cove wot couldn’t afford it, I would contrive to put by enough out of the profits to alter the cut of them toll takers.at s’elp me greens!, excl.
Low-Life Deeps 19: The first practice a fighting pup had was with ‘a good old gummer’.at gummer, n.
Low-Life Deeps 268: Inner pockets, in which are stowed the life-preserver, the ‘jemmy,’ the skeleton keys.at jemmy, n.3
Low-Life Deeps 216: Bust and beggar the jiggerin’ thing, why the ’ell don’t it fall into the hole?at jiggering, adj.
Low-Life Deeps 307: It was all about payin’ a penny toll [...] and everybody kicked at it.at kick, v.1
Low-Life Deeps 216: He was a shock-headed, heavy-featured, lubberly youth of about fifteen.at lubberly, adj.
Low-Life Deeps 162: He [...] glanced wearily over his shoulder in the direction of the monkey-board.at monkey board (n.) under monkey, n.
Low-Life Deeps 270: That rascal and his wife are street singers and cadgers of the sort known as ‘mud-plungers.’ Fine weather don’t suit ’em; they can’t come out strong enough.at mud-plunging (n.) under mud, n.
Low-Life Deeps 88: ‘Have you seen this Tom Paddock?’ [...] ‘I have,’ says she, ‘a needlepointer at Redditch; a fellow with no more breadth to his shoulders than there is between the eyes of a mouse, and he challenges you to a fight.’.at needle point, n.
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