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Bristol Times 15 June 2/3: The members had gone ramping mad in exultation.at ramping, adv.
Bristol Times 15 June 2/3: The members had gone ramping mad in exultation. Bristol Times 5 Sept. 3/3: That empty popinjay pumpkin-headed peer.at pumpkin-headed, adj.
Bristol Times 18 Mar. 4/2: Let all masters of hounds, in a country where foxes are scarce, ‘shut up shop’ till [...] next October.at shut up (one’s) shop (v.) under shop, n.1
Bristol Times 6 Mar. 2/2: If they had not retuned the money, the Directos [...] would liable to be called a set of shufflers’.at shuffler, n.2
Bristol Times & Mirror 17 June 3/2: The dumb show of cutrting off the tall poppy heads has its significance for good as well as evil.at tall poppy (n.) under tall, adj.
Bristol Times & Mirror 20 Apr. 2/6: The judges of the assizes [...] know my own four bones better than they know yourself (laughter).at four bones (n.) under bone, n.1
Bristol Times & Mirror 20 Apr. 2/6: Might she not take a ‘drop of it’ in her own house unknown to you.at drop, n.4
Bristol Times & Mirror 22 Mar. 6/6: The man is on of them [...] ‘bludgers,’ who lurk behind the girls [...] and when the ‘moll’ fondled a man to a certain extent, when she has got his watch or a purse, she gives a signal and up comes the ‘bludger,’ asks the man what business he has there with his wife [...] up goes the ‘bludger’s’ fist, down goes the man, and off they all goes.at bludger, n.
Bristol Times & Mirror 22 Mar. 6/6: I should describe the female as what we call ‘a picking-up moll,’ a girl who watches for men and picks them up [...] when they’ve got a little drop too much.at picking-up moll (n.) under pick up, v.
Bristol Times & Mirror 5 June 2/4: Why, I declare there’s Mr Jones a walking arm in arm with — all the world and his wife — now you wos a winking at my ’usband, you ’ussy.at all the world and his wife, n.
Bristol Times 17 Oct. 4/1: ‘Do you know any commister (clergyman) here?’.at commister, n.
Bristol Times 17 Oct. 4/1: Do you know any commister (clergyman) here? Yes there is one, he is a cushtie (good one).at cushty, adj.
Bristol Times & Mirror 20 Apr. n.p.: The Pall Mall bursts into chivalrous defence of [...] slang in petticoats. ‘Awfully,’ [...] is a schoolgirl’s idiom [...] It is a hen word.at hen, adj.
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