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[UK] Carlisle Patriot 15 Feb. 3/4: What with thin rubbishy goods, and high prices, and false colours [...] there would be a terrible day of reckoning.
at rubbish, adj.
[UK] Patriot 4 Sept. 30: Devil blow me, but you shall sleep in the best feather bed I have.
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: The finisher was applied, and Williams went down to all abroad. The swells looked blue.
at abroad, adj.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: The finisher was applied, and Williams went down to all abroad. The swells looked blue.
at blue, adj.1
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: The wistycastors of Josh. were so tremendous, he spoilt the gentility of the swell and milled him down.
at wisty-castor, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 23 Dec. 3/2: A liberal subscription was made for the tormentor of catgut.
at tormentor of catgut, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: He touched Hudson’s other peper so severely that his nob was Chanceried for an instant.
at in chancery under chancery, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: Don’t give a chance away, a finisher is only wanting.
at finisher, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: The pepper-box was again administered and Williams went down quite distressed.
at pepper-box (n.) under pepper, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: The hitherto genteel apperance of the swell had left him, and his mug had paid a visit to Pepper Alley.
at pepper alley (n.) under pepper, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: Hudson made a plunge with his rigjht hand upon his opponent’s face [...] followed him up to the ropes, and punished him down — 3 to 1, and ‘it’s poundable’.
at poundable (adj.) under pound, v.1
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: Hudson made a plunge with his rigjht hand upon his opponent’s face [...] followed him up to the ropes, and punished him down.
at punish, v.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 9 Dec. 2: Josh Hudson, with his white topper on, a prime fancy upper Benjamin [...] came brushing along, and threw his castor in the ring.
at upper benjamin (n.) under upper, adj.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 19 Nov. 3/1: The accounts were all right, straight, and above board.
at above board, adj.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 8 Feb. 4/1: For old Hatton-garden / We don’t care a farden.
at not care a farthing, v.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 8 Feb. 4/1: While we down at Wapping, / Are drinking hot stopping, / To the health of the judges in jail.
at hot stopping (n.) under hot, adj.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 8 Feb. 4/1: They jaw‘d us so cruel, / And fixed us to gruel.
at jaw, v.1
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 8 Feb. 4/1: What a time to get fogles, / Chains, purses and ogles.
at ogle, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 8 Feb. 4/1: Now the Judges are going to jail [...] / All Beaks and Recorders, the stairs without landing to scale.
at stairs without a landing (n.) under stair, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 27 Apr. 4/5: ‘Dash my buttons!’ I sez to myself.
at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 27 Feb. 1/2: Policeman, Mr Bluebottle.
at bluebottle, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 1 Sept. 3/2: Scotch Tuft-Hunting. Even in the quiet retreat of Roseneath the Princess [...] did not altogether escape the persecution of snobbishness.
at tuft-hunting, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 29 Dec. 6/4: Sir Wilfred Lawson at a ‘Tea Fight’. At the annual soirée of the Kirkeswald Literary Institution [...] Sir Wilfred Lawson was one of the speakers.
at tea fight (n.) under tea, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 22 Nov. 8/4: [advert] Powell’s Balsam of Aniseed [...] It is ‘worth a Jew’s Eye’ for a Cough.
at Jew’s eye, n.
[UK] Carlisle Patriot 19 Nov. 5/4: Charles snatched at a salmon, and his son had the gaff. Witness [...] charged them with ‘snigging’.
at snig, v.
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