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Coventry Standard 6 Oct. 4/5: The meeting views with the greatest delight the election of Baron Bruit and sincerely hopes that he may long continue to wear his sitting breeches’.at have one’s sitting breeches on (v.) under breeches, n.
Coventry Standard 6 Oct. 4/5: The meeting views with the greatest delight the election of Baron Bruit and sincerely hopes that he may long continue to wear his sitting breeches’. Coventry Standard 31 Aug. 2/5: She fetched me a deuce of a clip on the side of my face.at deuce, n.2
Coventry Standard 14 Sept. 3/3: If the ‘rint’ [i.e. rent] came in pretty tol-lollish it would be a lucrative post.at tol-lollish, adv.
Coventry Standard 28 Dec. 4/5: ‘I have blued that parcel for two shillings and if you don’t keep it quiet I’ll punch your mouth for you.’ [...] The term ‘blued’ [the witness] believes, is a flash word for selling stolen articles .at blue, v.2
Coventry Standard 5 July 3: He, while Eliza had hold of Selina by the hair of the head, and was pegging away at her as she lay upon the ground, came up and struck complainant several blows the face, besides administering some severe kicks upon her body.at peg away (v.) under peg, v.2
Coventry Standard 25 Apr. 3/2: I asked him whether he was the owner of the pig. He said, ‘No I am not [...] It belongs to a man they call Bluey; I can’t tell you his real name’.at bluey, n.1
Coventry Standard 19 Aug. 4/4: If proof is wanted to prove Mason Jones to be a slubberdegullion of a poltroon [etc].at slabberdegullion, n.
Coventry Standard 8 Mar. 3/4: ‘’ll sew him up if he’s been robbing me [...] I will indeed’.at sew up, v.
Coventry Standard 18 May 8/4: Are you what the little people would call a beanstalk or a lofty?at beanstalk, n.1
Coventry Standard 8 Feb. 8/1: In ‘The Hostage,’ Angela is a skivvy in a disorderly house.at skivvy, n.2
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