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Diary (1893) I 1 Oct. 35: I enticed him on by a feint [...] and then tipped him the double and hung upon his rear.at tip the double (v.) under double, n.1
Diary (1893) I 1 Oct. 35: I enticed him on by a feint [...] and then tipped him the double and hung upon his rear. Diary (1893) I 24 Aug. 38: The incessant roar of the herd of swine and the everlasting clack of the Taffys.at Taffy, n.
Diary (1893) I 30 Oct. 50: [A large meal] all elegantly served up, and with great civility, for 6s. 8d., which I thought much better bestowed than on a lawyer’s letter.at six-and-eightpence, n.
Diary (1893) I 25 Aug. 38: Having spent an hour in seing the ‘lions’ of that place [i.e. Bristol].at see the lions (v.) under see, v.
Diary (1893) I 26 Sept. 45: In spite of all coats, ‘toggerys and upper benjamins.’.at toggery, n.
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 68: We had no sooner left the coach than it was mobbed by tag rag, and bob-tail.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 69: We even remunerated the fellows that we blackguarded with beer.at blackguard, v.
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 68: Two monkey-faced chimney sweepers.at monkey-faced (adj.) under monkey-face, n.
Diary (1893) I 7 Jan. 66: Mr. Macintosh [...] a good fag, an old sportsman.at fag, n.1
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 68: We [...] stopped to malt it at all the hedge alehouses.at hedge-tavern (n.) under hedge, adj.
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 68: A grand attack was made on the Johnny raws of Blandford.at Johnny Raw, n.
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 68: We [...] stopped to malt it at all the hedge alehouses.at malt, v.
Diary (1893) I 13 Aug. 79: A pettifogging attorney, who was alone writing [...] The quill driver had scarcely strength to support himself.at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 69: Every stage I was bothered with some proper rusty ‘divils’ [i.e. horses].at rusty, adj.1
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 68: We had some prime slang on the road, and [...] blew up every spoony fellow we could meet.at slang, n.1
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 68: We had some prime slang on the road, and [...] blew up every spoony fellow we could meet.at spoony, adj.
Diary (1893) I 22 Feb. 68: The boys [...] finished the evening with some prime grub, swizzle, and singing.at swizzle, n.1
Diary (1893) I 10 Aug. 101: The people are all red hot for Buonaparte in consequence of his having found them plenty of lucrative employment.at red-hot, adj.
Diary (1893) I 4 Mar. 166: [I] was forced to [...] pass a second night aong the myriads of sharpers by whom you are every instant imposed on.at sharper, n.
Diary (1893) I 7 May 226: [note] I [...] took the doctor’s curse, or, in other words, a dose of calomel.at doctor’s curse (n.) under doctor, n.
Diary (1893) I 18 Sept. 319: Before he [i.e. a hunting-dog] was sufficiently in trim to do anything but make his deposits from one port and cast up his accounts from the other, it was time to come home.at cast up one’s accounts (v.) under cast, v.
Diary (1893) II 2 Feb. 14: He and his punt came home looking like a set-out of glass, and himself half-frozen.at set-out, n.
Diary (1893) II 31 Oct. 113: I’ll ‘serve him out’ for it [i.e. shooting on Sunday] with a threat of the penalty.at serve out (v.) under serve, v.
Diary (1893) II 214: We ended the day with a lush at Véry’s .at lush, n.1
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