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Bath Chron. 23 July 3/4: If from the Sky a Star is shot, / My Grannum cries a Child is got.at grannam, n.2
Bath Chron. 23 July 3/4: If from the Sky a Star is shot, / My Grannum cries a Child is got. Bath Chron. 8 Dec. 1/3: [to a hog] Quoth to Ass [...] Poor Fat-Guts! is such thy hard Case, / If for no other Ebnd / Thou wert Stuff’d — by thy Friend.at fatguts (n.) under fat, adj.
Bath Chron. 13 Sept. 3/4: How many more thousand Britons are to bleed, how many more Millions sterling to be consumed upon this Object of foreign Expence.at bleed, v.1
Bath Chron. 26 July 1/3: The Tippling Philosopher. Tom, studious all morning thinks, / And all Afternoon he drinks.at tipple, n.
Bath Chron. 5 Jan. 2/2: Forbear, fond Fool, forbear to prate / Nor dare foretel your Neighbour’s Fat / [...] Tom Telltruth .at tom tell-troth (n.) under tom, n.1
Bath Chron. 22 May 1/1: ’Tis common to hold our Noses against the Smell of a Sir-reverence.at sir-reverence, n.
Bath Chron. 8 Dec. 2: [advert] Curtain Lectures; or, Matrimonial Misery displayed in a Series of interesting Dialogues between Men and their Wives [...] The Old Fumbler, the Miser, the Cot [...] the termagent Jade and the Scold; will find our Book is the Picture of Life.at cot, n.1
Bath Chron. 8 Dec. 2: [advert] Curtain Lectures; or, Matrimonial Misery displayed in a Series of interesting Dialogues between Men and their Wives.at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
Bath Chron. 8 Dec. 2: [advert] Curtain Lectures; or, Matrimonial Misery displayed in a Series of interesting Dialogues between Men and their Wives [...] The Old Fumbler, the Miser, the Cot [...] the termagent Jade and the Scold; will find our Book is the Picture of Life.at fumbler, n.
Bath Chron. 12 Apr. 4/1: Says old Hobnail to Giles [...] Here comes my Lord Mayor.at hobnail, n.
Bath Chron. 19 Sept. 2/2: He resolutely struck the pistol aside, and bid him shoot and be d—n’d.at damn, v.
‘The Newsman’s New-Year’s Address’ in Bath Chron. 31 Dec. 3/4: Heav’n keep me from all such noise, / Such tory rory ranting boys!at tory rory, adj.
Bath Chron. 17 Sept. 3/4: He exemplifies with the greatest humour and drollery [...] the characters of [...] Word-grubber [...] Macaroni Orator, Scotch Orator...at word-grubber (n.) under word, n.
Bath Chron. 22 May 1/2: Rather than snuff-taking should prevail among the Ladies I could wish it were the Fashion for them to [...] have their Nostrils bored through as well as their Ears, and, instead of Jewels, to bear Rolls of Pigtail bobbing over their upper Lips.at pigtail, n.
Bath Chron. 22 May 1/1: Just in the same Manner as ’tis common to hold our Noses against the Smell of a Sir-reverence.at sir-reverence, n.
Notes & Queries 966 q. in Bath Chron. 3 June (1950) 16/2: If my Lady Dumpletonian will wear a hat at the ball, she must not be offended if my Lord grumbletonian cuts her ankle with his sharp pointed spurs.at grumbletonian, n.
Bath Chron. 5 Sept. 3/2: It is supposed the above Gang have lately been discharged from that Sink of Iniquity the Floating Academy at Woolwich, and that the Robbery was concerted whilst the Parties were completing their Studies.at academy, n.
Bath Chron. 30 Dec. 2/1: A certain demi-rep who figures in the high ranks of Cyrpian votaries, found herself some time ago in a state of delicate perplexity.at demi-rep, n.
Bath Chron. 14 Sept. 1/2: The riots and excess committed by the bog-trotting peasantry of Ireland.at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
Bath Chron. 26 June 2/1: The coachman [...] found some loose guineas in the bottom of the rumble-tumble .at rumble-tumble, n.
Bath Chron. 5 Nov. 4/1: I wish you could contrive to let your brothers of the quill know that a correspondent thinks it is a very absurd expression.at brother of the quill (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Bath Chron. 26 Feb. Johnson gave Ryan some woundy hard blows: .at woundy, adv.
Bath Chron. 23 June 4/3: [advert] Mr Rymer’s Cardiac and Nervous Tincture, for [...] the dry belly-ache, for billious sickness.at belly-ache, n.
Bath Chron. 23 Feb. 2/2: And who the deuce are you?at deuce, the, phr.
Bath Chron. 5 Oct. 4/1: The Merchant Tailors[...] (one branch of which was to line the armour [or] under-dress of knights) was also termed linen armourers.at linen armourer, n.
Bath Chron. 11 July 4/3: The old thieves teach the boys how to ‘star the glaze’.at star the glaze (v.) under glaze, n.
Bath Chron. 26 Dec. 4/2: A few days ago I mets my nabs here, and says [etc.].at my nabs (n.) under nabs, n.
Bath Chron. 16 June 3/2: Great and big-mouthed wre the outcries against the hereditary legislators.at big-mouthed, adj.
Bath Chron. 22 Nov. 4/3: A Crack Hand — [...] as Street, the coachman of the Red Rover coach, was on his journey [...] he brought the bird down with the point of his whip.at crack hand (n.) under crack, adj.
Bath Chron. 27 Aug. 4/5: The prisoner is a cloddish-looking fellow.at cloddish (adj.) under clod, n.1
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