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Belfast Morn. News 25 July 3/2: The Swell Mob in Belfast — some of these gentry did a tolerable business during the show.at business, n.
Belfast Morn. News 25 July 3/2: The Swell Mob in Belfast — some of these gentry did a tolerable business during the show. Belfast Morn. News 28 Feb. 4/1: Gambling scenes — of dupes and knaves — of cogged dice.at cog, v.
Belfast Morn. News 28 Feb. 4/1: The house in question was a low ‘inferno’ where the stakes were low and the players lower still.at hell, n.
Belfast Morn. News 31 Jan. 4/3: [from pro-slavery Detroit Free Press] The father of the girl is a red-hot Abolitionist, of the whole-hog-or-nothing, nigger-as-good-as-anybody style.at red-hot, adj.
Belfast Morn. News 25 July 3/2: The Swell Mob in Belfast — some of these gentry did a tolerable business during the show.at swell mob, n.
Belfast Morn. News 1 Oct. 4/6: Wilomot says [the Prince] is a ‘regular nice fellow’.at regular guy (n.) under regular, adj.
Belfast Morn. News 6 Aug. 4/1: I was got up swell.at swell, adv.
Belfast Morn. News 4 Dec. 4/6: The plaintiff is a chemist and druggist [...] A certain knight of the pestle and mortar having taken it into his head to maltreat his wife.at ...the pestle under knight of the..., n.
Belfast Morn. News 24 Feb. 4/1: Poor Joe has got the shakes, and Rube the horrors upon him.at shakes, the, n.
Belfast Morn. News 3 Apr. 3/5: The other day some Paterfamilias, writing to the Times, stigmatised the long curls which some young ladies wear over-the-shoudlers [...] by the name of ‘Follow-me-lads!’.at follow-me-lads (n.) under follow, v.
Belfast Morn. News 20 Oct. 4/2: She [...] consented to become the left-handed wife of her young sovereign [...] according to the custom in these left-handed or secret marriages.at left-handed wife (n.) under left-handed, adj.
Belfast Morn. News 16 Feb. 3/3: Poking fun at poor Earl Russell, who, always looks ‘like a hen on a hot griddle’.at like a hen on a hot griddle under hot, adj.
Belfast Morn. News 19 May 4/4: An ‘Argle Bargle’ and its Result. [...] Two valiant men, both short-tempered, commenced (to use an expressve Scotch phrase) to ‘argle-bargle’.at argle-bargle, n.
Belfast Morn. News 19 May 4/4: An ‘Argle Bargle’ and its Result. [...] Two valiant men, both short-tempered, commenced (to use an expressve Scotch phrase) to ‘argle-bargle’.at argle-bargle, v.
Belfast Morn. News 18 Sept. 4/3: They [must] immediately discard the name of Naggleton, and assume [...] the name of ‘Lovey-Dovey’.at lovey-dovey, n.
Belfast Morn. News 19 May 8/1: ‘he wouldn’t carry me as far as that white rhinocerous carried you, old knot-head,’ retorted Ben.at knothead, n.
Belfast Morn. News 20 July 3/5: Disraeli chaffs him unmercifully, and [...] spoke of his noble friend as an ‘agreeable Rattle’.at agreeable rattle, n.
Belfast Morn. News 19 Oct. 3/5: If ever a man [...] had right to be proud, it’s my own four bones.at four bones (n.) under bone, n.1
Belfast Morn. News 3 Dec. 4/6: [He] retires to bed, not having come into contact with one ‘Frenchy’ during the whole day.at Frenchie, n.1
Belfast Morn. News 8 June 4/4: An Unhappy Benedict. [...] ‘I wish to inform Your Worship that I have been married three months.’ Mr Arnold— ‘Well, I hope you are happy.’ [...] ‘No, sir, [...] My wife has left me’.at benedict, n.
Belfast Morn. News 1 May 4/2: This is a pretty how d’ye do [...] my wife gone on to New York alone, and I left behind.at how-do-you-do, n.1
Belfast Morn. News 20 Jan. 4/3: He would have none of his ‘American hanky-panky tricks,’ and would punch his head.at hankypanky, adj.
Belfast Morn. News 13 July 4/1: My Jane is waiting for me when I die! [...] at the last muster-roll.at answer the last muster (roll), v.
Belfast Morn. News 21 Feb. 4/3: He conceived the idea that if a Society of Cabdrivers [...] could be organised [...] for the promotion of total abstinence [...] among their brethren of the ‘whip,’ very many would join in.at brother (of the) whip (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Belfast Morn. News 21 Feb. 4/5: His boy had [...] bad companions [...] who had frequently enticed him into a ‘penny gaff’ in the Euston Road.at penny gaff (n.) under gaff, n.1
Belfast Morn. News 13 Sept. 4/3: The famous American ‘gum tickler’.at gum-tickler (n.) under gum, n.1
Belfast Morn. News 13 Dec. 3/8: A git-up-and-git vivacity that [...] elicited a whoop of pleasure from every galoot in the mob.at get up and get, v.
Belfast Morn. News 4 Apr. 4/9: Mrs Bombazine, who engineers a hashery, can be very sarcastic [...] She said ‘Young man, you come at one and eat for twelve...’.at hash-house, n.
Belfast Morn. News 13 Dec. 3/8: [from US mining camp newspaper] As a singer she can just wallop the hose off anything that ever wagged a jaw on the boards.at pants, n.
Belfast Morn. News 10 Apr. 4/7: His worshippers carry brandy blossoms on the nose.at brandy blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
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