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[UK] Eve. Dispatch 5 July 5/3: Turks Wear Straws [...] Turks [...] have discarded the fez for a British straw hat.
at straw, n.
[UK] Eve. Dispatch (London) 26 June 4/2: It was a toe-to-toe slugging match.
at slug, v.2
[UK] Eve. Dispatch (W. Midlands, UK) 7 Dec. 3/3: ‘How do you like the women cooks?’ he asked the men. ‘Sure, sir [...] they beat the men into fits’.
at beat into fits (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] (con. 1840) Eve. Dispatch (London) 28 Aug. 4/3: Although recognised by his former companions they did not, to use their own slang term, ‘crack a lay,’ but looked around to find ways to gain money by means of [...] pugilistic knowledge.
at crack a lay (v.) under crack, v.1
[UK] Eve. Dispatch 22 Feb. 4/1: I don’t wish little Joe any hard luck, but his presence on the battle front will terminate this dod-blasted war.
at dod-blasted (adj.) under dod, n.1
[UK] Eve. Dispatch 28 June 1/5: Well, of all the bone-headed mugwumps, you take the petzel [sic].
at boneheaded, adj.
[UK] Eve. Dispatch 15 Aug. 2/6: the Canadian soldier [...] explained with abroad smile that cackleberries were eggs — boiled or poached.
at cackleberry (n.) under cackle, n.
[UK] Eve. Dispatch (London) 10 Dec. 4/3: [advert] If Chairman didn’t bring relief / He’d waste away to skin and grief. 5½d. for 10.
at skin-and-grief (n.) under skin, n.1
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