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‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: Make-a-bloke-a-choke young girl, / Love-a-gin-soak young girl.at bloke, n.
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: Make-a-bloke-a-choke young girl, / Love-a-gin-soak young girl. ‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A slosher-of-pals, / A spooning-with-gals, / An ought-to-be-blowed young man.at blowed, adj.1
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: On-the-kerb-come-a-cropper, / Run-in-by-a-copper, / ‘Fined-forty-bob’.at bob, n.3
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A tell-a-good-whopper young man, / A slogging-a-copper young man.at copper, n.
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A Sunday-flash-togs young man, / A pocket-of-hogs young man.at flash toggery (n.) under flash, adj.
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A slosher-of-pals, / A spooning-with-gals, / An ought-to-be-blowed young man.at gal, n.
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A Sunday-flash-togs young man, / A pocket-of-hogs young man.at hog, n.
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: An always-get-tight, / A stay-out-all-night, / Have-a-kid-in-the-end young girl.at kid, n.1
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A pay-on-the-nod, / An always-in-quod, / A sure-to-be-scragged young man.at on the nod under nod, n.1
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A save-all-his-rhino, / A cut-a-big-shine, oh, / Will soon-have-a-pub young man.at rhino, n.1
Rag in (1909) 212/2: They go out on the rushing business, and a very profitable emag they find it.at rushing business (n.) under rush, v.
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A pay-on-the-nod, / An always-in-quod, / A sure-to-be-scragged young man.at scragged, adj.
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A tell-a-good-whopper young man, / A slogging-a-copper young man.at slog, v.
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A slosher-of-pals, / A spooning-with-gals, / An ought-to-be-blowed young man.at slosh, v.1
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A tallow-faced-straight young girl, / A never-out-late young girl.at straight, adj.1
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: A Sunday-flash-togs young man, / A pocket-of-hogs young man, / A save-all-his-rhino, / To cut-a-big-shine, oh, / Will soon-have-a-pub young man.at Sunday flash togs (n.) under Sunday, n.1
‘Blooming Aesthetic’ in Rag 30 Sept. n.p.: An always-get-tight, / A stay-out-all-night, / Have-a-kid-in-the-end young girl.at tight, adj.
Tag, Rag & Co. 23: It may be a paying game with her just now, but that’s ’cos it’s new, and there’s not many that are awake to it.at awake, adj.
Tag, Rag & Co. 239: Ain’t that up to Dick, my biffin?at biffin, n.1
Tag, Rag & Co. 36: Predatory ‘birds of a feather’.at birds of a feather (n.) under bird, n.1
Tag, Rag & Co. 29: ‘The worst of birdseye [...] it blows away’ -puff, puff – ‘quicker than the common kind o’bacca’.at birdseye, n.
Tag, Rag & Co. 37: They were sharp blades, these instruments of the law of a past generation.at blade, n.
Tag, Rag & Co. 101: ‘Oh, blarmed if I can tell you,’ returned the carter wearily.at blame, v.
Tag, Rag & Co. 237: The vagabond brotherhood have several slang terms for sleeping out in a field or meadow. It is called ‘snoozing in Hedge-square,’ ‘dossing with the daisies,’ and ‘lying under the blue blanket’.at blue blanket (n.) under blanket, n.
Tag, Rag & Co. 37: Sergeant Twitcher would pleasantly relate how [...] the prisoner at the bar was to be found in Bludger’s Kitchen in the Dials.at bludger, n.
Tag, Rag & Co. 114: I happened to know that in criminal circles to describe a person as being ‘shy of the blues’ is equivalent to saying that he has particular reasons for keeping out of the way of the police.at blues, n.2
Tag, Rag & Co. 242: He needn’t bounce so much about it.at bounce, v.1
Tag, Rag & Co. 113: ‘Your tools do you mean?’ ‘All the blessed box of tricks,’ said the tinker.at box of tricks (n.) under box of..., n.
Tag, Rag & Co. 81: He foreswore the ‘infernal broads’.at broads, n.
Tag, Rag & Co. 103: Bust me if I wouldn’t drown myself.at bust me! (excl.) under bust, v.1
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