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Brighton Gaz. 28 Sept. 4/5: Inscription over a Broomstick Marriage Shop: ‘Marrying done here in the Newest Style’.at broomstick marriage, n.
Brighton Gaz. 28 Sept. 4/5: Inscription over a Broomstick Marriage Shop: ‘Marrying done here in the Newest Style’. Brighton Gaz. 10 Dec. 1/5: Come, are you ready, my old coon? Let’s drive blue blazes thro’ ’em.at blue blazes (n.) under blue, adj.5
Brighton Gaz. 17 Jan. 5/4: Those, however, who prefer living by their wits, instead of their hands, ought [...] to use a slang phrase of the fraternity, ‘brass’ out everything.at brass it out (v.) under brass, n.1
Brighton Gaz. 26 Nov. 8/6: We were [...] apprehensive that we should have to wait until St Tibb’s Eve [...] for the gratification of our wishes.at St Tibb’s eve, n.
Brighton Gaz. 12 Aug. 3/3: ‘We row in the same boat, you know,’ said a literary friend. [...] Jerrold replied, ‘True, my good fellow [...] but with very diufferent skulls’.at row in the (same) boat (v.) under boat, n.1
Brighton Gaz. 3 June 7/4: [of cricket] When they speak of a man playing ‘booty’ at cricket nobody believes it.at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
Brighton Gaz. 24 Mar. 5/3: ‘They have been “besting” of me at the tap’.at best, v.
Brighton Gaz. 24 Mar. 5/3: ‘Now, was not the prosecutor dunk?’ Witness — ‘Yes; but he had been much drunker (laughter). He was what we might call stale drunk’.at stale drunk, adj.
Brighton Gaz. 16 Jan. 8/2: The pace being first-rate and the country very severe, and consequently plenty of bellow to mend.at bellows to mend under bellows, n.
Brighton Gaz. 9 Aug. 8/1: ‘Come down with the brass tacks’ closed the entertainment.at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
Brighton Gaz. 4 Oct. 7/2: The regatta was tol-lollish.at tol-lol, adj.
Brighton Gaz. 27 Sept. 5/7: The Standard was ‘stinkingly sarcastic’ [...] about imaginary drainage deficiencies.at stinkingly (adv.) under stinking, adv.
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