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Bristol Mercury 20 Sept. 4/1: Now let’s push the bottle around, / And make the broken glasses skip.at push the bottle (v.) under push, v.
Bristol Mercury 20 Sept. 4/1: Now let’s push the bottle around, / And make the broken glasses skip. Bristol Mercury 20 Sept. 4/1: When even the women were so mettled, / ’Twould seem they really wore the breeches.at wear the trousers (v.) under trouser, n.
Bristol Mercury 7 Aug. 4/1: Bring back in safety Little B- / Nor feed the fishes with Dan B- / [...] / Return, O ship! secure and whole.at feed the fishes (v.) under feed, v.
Bristol Mercury 8 June 3/3: [I]t must be allowed that the artist does nor think small beer of himself.at think small beer of (v.) under small beer, n.
Bristol Mercury 11 July 4/1: When distant from this motley mob, / From measley pork and staggering bob.at staggering bob, n.
Bristol Mercury 22 Jan. 4/4: A good look-out has been kept upon all strangers lurking about under the denomination of mumpers or vagrants.at mumper, n.
Bristol Mercury 7 Apr. 4/1: Rogue, traitor, [...] infidel, ass / Have been kept for some weeks on such deuced hard duty / They’re now, like the one pounds, too tatter’d to pass.at deuced, adv.
Bristol Mercury 19 July 2/6: She shed a profusion of tears [...] the big drops chasing each other through the gin blossoms of her face like pearls playing among rubies.at gin blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Bristol Mercury 19 July 2/6: She shed a profusion of tears [...] the big drops chasing each other through the gin blossoms of her face like pearls playing among rubies.at ruby, n.1
Bristol Mercury 19 July 2/6: A lady of the pave was doomed to wear the cruel ‘wooden garters’ [...] She had some time previously incurred a fine [...] but having no stock-purse, she was put in the stocks.at wooden garters (n.) under wooden, adj.
Bristol Mercury 9 June [4]/1: The Morning Slop-Basin says that the whole company at the Pitt Dinner joined heartily in the folIlowing part of the chorus [etc].at Morning Slop-Basin (n.) under morning, n.
Bristol Mercury 14 Jan. 4/4: Three Months: [...] Ann James (three weeks solitary).at solitary, n.
Bristol Mercury 8 Sept. 3/6: Auber’s magnificnet aria [...] is a sure card in Templeton’s hands.at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
Bristol Mercury 14 Dec. 2/6: Half a ginnery! [...] tare an’ ages.at tare an’ ages!, excl.
Bristol Mercury 2 May 5/6: The leaders of the Tories [...] are like the beef-witted lords in Shakespeare.at beef-witted (adj.) under beef, n.1
Bristol Mercury 14 Mar. 7/3: ‘hat’s only smouchey’s gammon.’ ‘Vat you call me smouchey for, you black willin?’.at smous, n.
Bristol Mercury 26 June 2/6: They were all drawn up in the waist 'in full fig' their cracked hats profusely decorated.at in full fig under fig, n.3
Bristol Mercury 15 Mar. 2/5: Their fare is of the simplest, consisting of bread and butter — familiarly known as ‘bread and scrape’.at scrape, n.
Bristol Mercury 14 Feb. 6/6: ‘You have as much use for a wife, I think, as a toad has for a side-pocket’.at side-pocket, n.
Bristol Mercury 3 Apr. 6/3: [from US press] Snakes alive! then you want to put down the old gentleman, I suppose, don’t you?at snakes (alive)!, excl.
Bristol Mercury 18 Nov. 6/1: Flapdoodle, the stuff they feed fools on.at flapdoodle, n.2
Bristol Mercury 12 July 8/5: He had been [...] going to Cremorne-gardens to ‘pick up a flat’ [and] packed the cards so as to assist the others in carrying out their scheme of plunder.at pick up a flat (v.) under pick up, v.
Bristol Mercury 24 Oct. 7/1: Mrs Lynch made us of very bad language, called him a ‘mutton-faced — ’.at mutton-faced (adj.) under mutton, n.
Bristol Mercury 20 Dec. 6/2: Wisha, by gore, that bangs Banagher.at beat Bannagher (v.) under Bannagher, n.
Bristol Mercury 20 Dec. 6/2: You rascally gallows-bird; you cowardly, sneaking, plate-lickin’ blackguard [...] you — robber.at gallows-bird, n.
Bristol Mercury 20 Dec. 6/2: By the hokey, if you say another word of impudence, I’d tan your dirty hide.at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
Bristol Mercury 28 July 7/5: The prisoner’s wife put her head out of the window and called me ‘Lord Muck’.at Lord Muck (n.) under muck, n.1
Bristol Mercury 4 Dec. 6/2: ‘Oh, crikee!’ cried Joe.at crikey!, excl.
Bristol Mercury 23 Jan. 6/3: A Scotch Minister [...] went into his pulpit in the olden time slightly obfusticated.at obfusticated, adj.
Bristol Mercury 4 Dec. 6/2: ‘What a stupid-head you were,’ groaned Jack.at stupid-head (n.) under stupid, adj.
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