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Wilds of London (1881) 139: They don’t care a pin’s head for beer, and, indeed, never take a drop of it.at not care a pin, v.
Wilds of London (1881) 139: They don’t care a pin’s head for beer, and, indeed, never take a drop of it. Wilds of London (1881) 249: Likewise there is a notification that a ‘free and easy’ takes place every Monday and Saturday.at free-and-easy, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 52: Write to So-and-so for so much, and have it directed to you.at so-and-so, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 153: Their business there was to conspire to bamboozle and deceive honest buyers.at bamboozle, v.
Wilds of London (1881) 94: She shoved me right bang into a dish of fried Dutch plaice.at bang, adv.
Wilds of London (1881) 16: A song about another highwayman [...] ‘mounted on his mare with his barkers at his belt’.at barker, n.1
Wilds of London (1881) 143: Bat up, Poll, keep the pot a-bilin’.at bat, v.
Wilds of London (1881) 169: Brave fellows who, scorning to flinch or to falter, / Defy full-wigged beaks, and don’t care for the halter.at beak, n.1
Wilds of London (1881) 27: Any dicky-bird of mine will pine and die if the smallest quantity of tainted matter is allowed to remain in his house.at dicky-bird, n.1
Wilds of London (1881) 292: Flash Jack, with his great throat encircled by a bird’s-eye ‘Kingsman’ of irresistable pattern.at bird’s eye, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 104: All the fun consisted in Caseley calling the judge ‘old bloak’ and the counsel ‘rummy codgers’.at bloke, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 132: Without doubt Sunday is recognized by the undertaking fraternity as a day for boozing and drunkenness.at boozing, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 53: ‘One chow’ (or chaw), [is worth] ‘a twelve and a bull’ (a 12 oz. loaf and a 5 oz. ration of meat).at bull, n.1
Wilds of London (1881) 171: Awaiting the return of every ‘highwayman,’ or ‘burglar, ’ or ‘burker’ [...] is a ‘lovely young female’.at burker, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 53: Amongst the gangs in the quarries may be seen here and there a convict with one leg yellow and the other of a cinnamon colour, and the same as to his arms and each half of his body [...] These are known as ‘canaries,’ and are convicts who have attempted to escape.at canary, n.1
Wilds of London (1881) 139: An earnestness [...] calculated to impress the two young ladies that though young they are lads of mettle and knowing cards.at card, n.2
Wilds of London (1881) 161: Says the policeman: ‘You lets them catamarans (the girl’s mistresses) frighten you from doing your duty, you does’.at catamaran, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 198: I can hear them chanting ditties, both comic and sentimental, and laughing and ‘chaffing’.at chaffing, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 43: There is a sort of round-house, divided into sections, with partitions too high to be overlooked, and up and down this ‘chicken-walk,’ as it is called, this class of prisoner tramps his alotted time in company of two warders.at chicken walk (n.) under chicken, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 3: They’ve choused the flats of ever rap they’ve got about ’em.at chouse, v.
Wilds of London (1881) 53: ‘One chow’ (or chaw), [is worth] ‘a twelve and a bull’ (a 12 oz. loaf and a 5 oz. ration of meat).at chow, n.2
Wilds of London (1881) 13: They prognosticated that it would be a ‘clippin’’ piece.at clipping, adj.2
Wilds of London (1881) 284: Well, it ain’t the season, else I know what it ’ud do clipping for; it ’ud do for ’Ampstead ’Eath.at clipping, adv.
Wilds of London (1881) 110: I’ll have a spell in the day time when I’ve got the crib to myself.at crib, n.1
Wilds of London (1881) 103: The stuffed policeman [...] several times said, ‘O, crickey!’ and inquired of the convict if his mother knew he was out.at crikey!, excl.
Wilds of London (1881) 60: It’s my trade, sir; how I gets my living [...] It’s a hard way of getting a crust, but it’s better than the work’us.at crust, n.1
Wilds of London (1881) 95: And all at once to me she cried, / You are a perfect cure!at cure, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 116: As for the broken window, summon for that and be ------.at damned, adj.
Wilds of London (1881) 92: They were funny ‘niggers’ — jolly, well-fed; all play and no-work darkies.at darkie, n.
Wilds of London (1881) 272: I’ll go you a half-dollar level if you’re a-mind.at half-dollar, n.1
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