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Bradford Obs. 29 Aug. 4/2: To those Sleek, Pious, Holy and Devout Dissenters, Mesrs. Get-all, Keep-all, Grasp-all, Scrape-all, Whip-all [etc].at scrape-all (n.) under scrape, v.
Bradford Obs. 29 Aug. 4/2: To those Sleek, Pious, Holy and Devout Dissenters, Mesrs. Get-all, Keep-all, Grasp-all, Scrape-all, Whip-all [etc]. Bradford Obs. 9 Mar. 5/3: The young potato eater is really boiling with rage, and offering the most frightful menaces.at potato-eater (n.) under potato, n.
Bradford Obs. 26 Oct. 8/4: Yes sir [...] Whotever [sic] is, is right.at yes sir!, excl.
Bradford Obs. 12 Dec. 4/4: That’s the grub-shop [...] where we young gentlemen wot has money buys our wittels.at grub-shop (n.) under grub, n.2
Bradford Obs. 5 May 18/3: ‘What! don’t you know who Sir Robert [Peel] is? [...] He’s the Prime Ministrer.’ ‘A prime minister,’ ejaculated the knowing old tyke, ’adzooks, man’.at adzooks!, excl.
Bradford Obs. 11 May 3/1: Does any Saxon ‘bag o’ guts’ imagine that we will not have what we universally desire?at bag of guts (n.) under bag, n.1
Bradford Obs. 13 Apr. 2/4: There was some ugly work last night. My body-guard chucked a raw lobster (a policeman) into the canal.at raw lobster (n.) under raw, adj.
Bradford Obs. 1 Aug. 7/3: A fellow-boarder thought her gown must have been made in ‘the year one’. [...] She heard their sly innuendoes about ‘bush-whackers’.at bushwhacker, n.1
Bradford Obs. 18 Jan. 6/5: Mr Miller: Be good enough [...] to describe the ceremony of ‘chumming up’. Boot: When a new prisoner comes in he is welcomed by the prisoners who are in the prison and beat round with the chumming instruments [...] Mr Miller: And after this ceremony [...] do the prisoners demand from their new brother-prisoner any money? Boot: Yes. They half-a-crown from him.at chumming up, n.
Bradford Obs. 11 Jan. 7/5: I’ll take the poker to you, if ye don’t stop that imp’s yell. Lodnum it: I’m not going to have its mumping cry.at mumping, n.
Bradford Observer 15 Feb. 5/4: His un-talk-aboutables were tuned down, and [...] a volley of hard snowballs were fired away at his bare posterior.at unmentionables, n.
Bradford Obs. 7 Aug. 6/1: Two men were found, one quite drunk, the other ‘half-slewed’.at half-slewed, adj.
Bradford Obs. 25 Sept. 7/4: But should young wife / Gaze on the bloody show — / While cracking shot and gashing knife / Ply fiece and fast below?at show, n.
Bradford Obs. 10 Dec. 7/1: Merit like mine, to the worth of a swine, / People think small beer.at think small beer of (v.) under small beer, n.
Bradford Obs. 3 Sept. 7/3: And night and day, from that day out, he so the Virgin yeas’d / With pray’rs and sighs and craw-thumping at length she got appeased.at craw-thumping, n.
Bradford Obs. 3 Sept. n.p.: Our thief was [...] sentenced to be hang’d [...] The hangman [...] strung him up, and turn’d him off, to take his acorn ride* [...] *‘To ride a horse foaled of an acorn’ is a fashionable periphrasis for being hanged.at ride the horse foaled by an acorn (v.) under ride, v.
Bradford Obs. 27 Jan. 7: It’s a’most over; she has given him his gruel; and divil’s cure to him.at give someone gruel (v.) under gruel, n.
Bradford Obs. 27 Jan. 7: ‘Give it out, you hulk,’ said Kate . [...] ‘Here, then,’ exclaimed the savage with a grin of ferocious mirth, distorting his grim colossal features into a smile.at hulk, n.
Bradford Obs. 27 Jan. 7: Teddy [...] exclaimed — ‘Fwy dhen, dat’s the stuff; and here’s bad luck to him that paid fwhor it!’.at that’s the stuff under stuff, the, n.
Bradford Obs. 27 Jan. 7: He fastened his blazing eyes on kate — ‘What, you yalla mullolty [i.e. mulatto], do you dar [sic] to refuse?’.at yellow, adj.
Bradford Obs. 26 Feb. 7/4: The councillor and aldermen may rest assured that they are far too heavy and thick-sculled for the purpose.at thick-skulled (adj.) under thick, adj.
Bradford Obs. 3 Nov. 7/3: Tomnoddy’s day of ‘noble sport’ is with the hounds of course — No sport has he, thanks to that rat-tailed bay.at rat-tail (adj.) under rat, n.1
Bradford Obs. 2 Mar. 6/6: [heading] The Flim-Flams of Convocation.at flim-flam, n.
Bradford Obs. 2 Mar. 6/6: It brings forward the better heads of the Church in contrast with the fanatical and high-flyers as they used to be called.at high-flyer, n.
Bradford Obs. 6 Dec. 6/6: I begged to be allowed to keep my clothes on, protesting that I was not ‘crummy’.at crummy, adj.2
Bradford Obs. 6 Dec. 6/6: ‘If you’d been here on a week-day you’d hev hed to crack diamonds to the tune of two bushels.’ [...] ‘Cracking diamonds’ is the slang term for breaking stones.at diamond-cracking (n.) under diamond, n.
Bradford Obs. 6 Dec. 6/6: There used to be skilly for breakfast once [...] but it was knocked off because o’ the tramps throwing it about.at knock off, v.
Bradford Observer 6 Dec. 6/6: Good morning, you old divvle — I’d like to give you a good leathering, curse you!at leathering (n.) under leather, v.
Bradford Obs. 6 Dec. 6/6: I’ll [...] ’ave you nobb’d off to the asylum; strike me up a bleeding plum tree if I don’t.at strike me up a tree! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Bradford Obs. 6 Dec. 6/6: A debate ensued as to what course we should take to ‘nail’ a breakfast out of the workhouse authorities.at nail, v.
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