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Birmingham Gaz. 11 Aug. 5/6: Finders of pretended silver fingers, are now-a-days represented by the ‘fawney riggers,’ or droppers of counterfeit gold rings.at fawney-rig (n.) under fawney, n.
Birmingham Gaz. 11 Aug. 5/6: Finders of pretended silver fingers, are now-a-days represented by the ‘fawney riggers,’ or droppers of counterfeit gold rings. Birmingham Dly Gaz. 9 Nov. 2/5: So anxious was Mr Gladstoine that his frail charge should no longer remain within the precincts of the Rogue’s Walk (as the Haymarket has been called) that he saw her to the door of her lodgings in Greek Street, Soho.at rogue’s walk (n.) under rogue, n.
Birmingham Gaz. 28 Jan. 8/5: Mick Maley (alias Blue) has only seen nineteen summers.at bluey, n.1
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 3 Apr. 8/3: Police-constable Williams visited the shop of a man named Rossiter [...] who is said to have a 'fence shop', and there found the goods.at fence-shop (n.) under fence, n.1
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 1 Jan. 6/1: Here a very remarkable old woman used to live. She sold sucks and sweets and children were delighted to spend their money there.at suck, n.3
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 11 Nov. 6/7: ‘He ain’t got all his buttons. No, he be a button short, he be’.at button short, a (adj.) under button, n.1
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 1 Dec. 8/3: Of pedestrians who paid their ‘bob a nob’ for admission there must have been thousands.at bob a nob (n.) under bob, n.3
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 23 Jan. 7/3: On the Thames butter question [...] when the liquid has been throughly cooled, there was a layer of pure butter at the top, in the centre [...] a layer of hair, dust, and cotton fibre, and at the bottom a kind of milky water.at Thames butter, n.
Birmingham Gaz. 28 Sept. 4/7: San Francisco [...] became the scene of wild and unbridled nightly orgies. It was given the distinctive title of ‘The Barbary Coast’.at Barbary Coast, n.
Birmingham Gaz. 5 July 4/7: Mind my hat, you silly old chump.at chump, n.
Birmingham Gaz. 3 July 4/7: Probably the chief secret of Darwin’s happy marriage is that the wife [...] was not ‘damnably clever’ as Mrs Carlyle was.at damnably, adv.
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 9 Sept. 4/6: Kitchener [...] will wipe the floor with him and scoop the kitty.at scoop the pool (v.) under scoop, v.
Birmingham Gaz. 21 Apr. 4/5: I say, portah! [...] this is a bit thick, you know, what! I suppose this potty little train of yours has started, eh?at potty, adj.1
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 18 Aug. 4/5: A loaf of bread and bully-beef galore. Beside us lying in the booby-hutch what can a bloomin’ sojer wish for more?at booby-hutch, n.
Birmingham Gaz. 15 Aug. n.p.: If you hear someone describe himself or someone else as looking ‘gaga’ you may know that it is a bit of French slang recently imported. It is curiously expressive of general knock-kneedness and has no suitable equivalent over here. All the nuts have taken to it, and it is to be quite the word this autumn, with ‘priceless’ shelved.at gaga, adj.
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 22 Nov. 2/2: Vote solid for Banfield.at solid, adv.2
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 18 Jan. 3/4: Defendant used a lot of ‘slack jaw’ to the police.at slack-jaw (n.) under slack, n.1
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 5 Jan. 4/7: ‘There is no better remedy for drunkenness than soda water.’ Hint for mineral manufacturers — re-name it ‘sober water’.at sober-water, n.
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 31 Mar. 3/4: A home circus that is a marvel as a side-splitter.at side-splitter, n.
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 26 Aug. 1/3: [headline] Hitler’s Spring-Board Badly Spragged. No Jump Off for India.at sprag, v.
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 19 June 4/3: [headline] No ‘Mudslinging’.at mud-slinging, n.
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 15 July 2/7: A side-splitting farce.at side-splitting, adj.
Birmingham Dly Gaz. 19 Jan. 5/3: [W]hen they hear an inadequate voice talking about a book or a writer they immediately conclude that all ‘highbrows’ talk in that ‘nancified’ way.at nancified (adj.) under nancy, n.
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