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Guardian V iv: To the Offering, nay, No hanging an arse, this is their wedding day.at hang an arse under arse, n.
Guardian V iv: To the Offering, nay, No hanging an arse, this is their wedding day. Guardian IV i: If he prove not A Cock of the Game, cuckold him first, and after Make a Capon of him.at capon, n.
Guardian IV ii: Do you hear, Wire-string and cats-guts men.at cats-guts man (n.) under catgut, n.1
Guardian II i: As my Masters monies come in, I do repay it, Ka me, ka thee.at claw me and I’ll claw you under claw, v.
Guardian IV i: Not too high You Ferrit, this is no Cunniborough for you.at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
Guardian IV iii: The comfort is I am now secure from the Grincomes, I can lose nothing that way.at crinkum, n.
Guardian I i: I dogg’d him to the Church.at dog, v.1
Guardian I ii: ’Tis nothing For a simple Maid that never had her hand In the hony-pot of pleasure, to forbear it; But such as have lick’d there, and lick’d there often, And felt the sweetness of’t—.at honeypot, n.
Guardian III vi: Horns upon horns grow on him.at grow horns (v.) under horn, n.1
Guardian III iv: The Neapolitan Court a place of exile Where thou art absent.at Neapolitan, adj.
Guardian IV ii: Have not your Instruments To tune, when you should strike up, but twang it perfectly, As you would read your Neck-verse.at neck verse (n.) under neck, n.
Guardian I i: To thy mistress, boy! if I were I’thy shirt, how I could nick it!.at nick, v.2
Guardian V ii: You have been, Before your lady gave you entertainment, A night-walker in the streets. [...] Traded in picking pockets.at night walker, n.
Guardian IV v: Yet now I think on’t, I had ever a lucky hand in such smock night-work.at night work (n.) under night, n.
Guardian V ii: I am not good at niming.at nimming (n.) under nim, v.
Guardian III v: Yet now I think on’t, I had ever a luck hand in such smock night-work.at smock, n.1
Guardian 145: He that shall rashly attempt to regulate our hilts, or reduce our blades, had need to have a heart of oak... bilbo is the word, remember that and tremble [F&H].at bilbo, n.
Guardian 26: We are invested with a parcel of flirt-gills, who are not capable of being mothers of brave men [F&H].at flirt-gill (n.) under flirt, n.
Guardian 26 10 Apr. n.p.: Jill-flirts.at gill-flirt, n.
Guardian No. 454: A few moments after this Adventure, I had like to been knocked down by a Shepherdess for having run my Elbow a little inadvertently into one of her sides. She swore like a Trooper and threatned [sic] me with a very masculine Voice.at like a trooper (adv.) under trooper, n.1
Guardian (Hobart) 8 Sept. 3/5: A friend at our elbow, acquainted with Colonial slang, tells us, that the hangings have been monstrous heavy!!! [AND].at hanging, n.
Guardian (Hobart) 25 Mar. 6: Peter Allen, free, charged with having been drunk, was fined 5s. James Pearson, t.l., ditto, but not ditto as to punishment, (being a ‘paper man,’) he was ordered 3 months road-making.at paper man (n.) under paper, n.
Guardian (Hobart) 19 Feb. 3/3: The witness was sharply examined by the prisoner, who is somewhat of a ‘Bush Lawyer’ [AND].at bush lawyer (n.) under bush, adj.1
Guardian 25 Feb. 4/3: Finlen [...] said he had on previous occasions designated Louis Napoleon a ‘slip-gibbet’.at slip-gibbet (n.) under slip, v.2
Guardian 24 Dec. 4/2: A liquid known as ‘finish,’ a compound of methylated spirits and French polish [has] come into vogue.at finish, n.
Guardian 24 Dec. 4/2: The police authorities determined to make a beginning on one of the most notorious of these ‘druggist shebeeners’.at shebeener (n.) under shebeen, n.
Guardian 30 Dec. 3/6: Every one we passed hissed out a ‘Yang-ko’ (foreign dog) and various other epithets still less complimentary — that characterized by Dr Johnson as ‘a term of endearment among sailors’ predominating.at term of endearment among sailors, phr.
Guardian 24 May 6/1: The shebeeners had [...] prepared themselves to resist the enrace of the constables.at shebeener (n.) under shebeen, n.
Guardian 24 May 6/1: The ‘shebeen’ scandal in Cardiff.at shebeen, n.
Guardian 193: Be you crazy, Bella? [...] Maybe I am. But I ’ll bet a dollar to a lead nickel I ’d be headed for the daffy house .at daffy house (n.) under daffy, adj.
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