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Burnley Advertiser 3 Sept. 3/5: The Englishman who, at the end of his days, has spent about an entire year of his life in scraping off his beard.at scrape, v.
Burnley Advertiser 3 Sept. 3/5: The Englishman who, at the end of his days, has spent about an entire year of his life in scraping off his beard. Burnley Advertiser 5 June 3/2: We let him preach on till he was run down, knowing him to be a queer stick himself, and having no intention to furnish our readers with any of his remarks, however striking.at queer stick (n.) under queer, adj.
Burnley Advertiser 29 Sept. 4/1: When a man [...] speaks [...] of pence as ‘brads’ [...] he is not a gentleman.at brad, n.1
Burnley Advertiser 16 Mar. 3/2: Our decided conviction is that the most prudent course is to sail as close to the wind as possible, buying and selling only from hand to mouth.at sail close to the wind, v.
Burnley Advertiser 4 Nov. 3/7: Yet how living his words are still [...] so that let them be ranted by the emptiest rattle-pate.at rattle-head, n.
Burnley Advertiser 7 Sept. 3/7: Mr Blabbermouth, who is a red-hot Radical was [...] spouting at the top of his voice.at blabbermouth, n.
Burnley Advertiser 2 Mar. 3/8: Bible-teaching the Brummagem conscience ignores.at Brummagem conscience (n.) under Brummagem, adj.
Burnley Advertiser 2 Dec. 2/78: The new Ministers feel obliged to go to war, or eat their big-mouthed promises.at big-mouthed, adj.
Burnley Advertiser 22 Sept. 3/5: Fletcher said he saw the officers ‘snigging the women out — [...] He saw the police ‘shoving’ the defendants.at snig, v.
Burnley Advertiser 25 Oct. 3/3: You are bound to have the flesh, are you?’ ‘You bet your life!’.at (you) bet your life! (excl.) under bet, v.
Burnley Advertiser 28 Feb. 3/6: Address your wife as ‘Mrs’, and your husband as ‘Mr’. Such terms as ‘old bricktop’ and ‘chowderhead’ sound very affected.at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
Burnley Advertiser 22 June 7/2: Witness asked the prisoner where she had got the slippers, and the prisoner replied she had [...] ‘bought them from her tally husband’.at tally-husband, n.
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