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Dundee Advertiser 18 Nov. 2/2: Napoleon [...] has been obliged to hang out the flag of distress, and admit that he is [...] ‘hard up’.at hang out the flag of distress (v.) under flag of distress, n.
Dundee Advertiser 18 Nov. 2/2: Napoleon [...] has been obliged to hang out the flag of distress, and admit that he is [...] ‘hard up’. Dundee Advertiser 16 Dec. 2/3: The handsome, high-browed, intellectual Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.at highbrow, adj.
Dundee Advertiser 17 July 4/6: And the warbler is dead! Great Amodio is dead and buried.at warbler, n.
Dundee Advertiser 23 Jan. 2/1: It was then [...] suggested that we were getting too beef-headed for any work requiring either energy or inventiveness.at beefheaded (adj.) under beefhead, n.
Dundee Advertiser 6 Oct. 2/4: Mrs M’Lachlan does not admire a hempen necklace and would rather prefer that someone else’s neck than hers should be fitted with that vulgar ornament.at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
Dundee Advertiser 18 July 4/3: Bob Travers arrived with his trainer [...] and after receiving his share of gape-seed, orders were given.at gapeseed, n.
Dundee Advertiser 17 Nov. 3/4: Gushing. Modern novel writers seem to have an idea of love-making peculiarly their own.at gush, v.
Dundee Advertiser 14 Sept. 3/7: I don’t care a twopenny d—n what they say [...] What is a twopenny d—n.at not give a tuppenny damn, v.
Dundee Advertiser 14 Sept. 3/7: Is ‘By George,’ ‘by Jingo,’ or ‘By the Holy Poker,’ punishable under the Act?at by the holy poker! (excl.) under holy poker, n.1
Dundee Advertiser 18 July 2/3: At Kidderminster, rioting was, as usual, ‘on the carpet.’ Indeed [...] the mob, ‘as usual,’ smashed the telegraph wires.at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
Dundee Advertiser 28 Mar. 7/1: God damn it, sir, it’s all stuff and nonsense.at god-damn, v.
Dundee Advertiser 18 July 2/2: They [...] laid about them with their truncheons.at lay into, v.
Dundee Advertiser 18 July 2/2: The Conservative candidate [...] was fairly ‘shut up’ by the clamour.at shut up, v.
Dundee Advertiser 8 Nov. 3/3: When they howled being spanked, / She just said, ‘You be blanked,’ And calmly continued to rap ’em.at blanked, adj.
Dundee Advertiser 10 July 5/5: This juvenile representative of ‘Auld Hornie’ managed to gain an entrance.at old hornie (n.) under old, adj.
Dundee Advertiser 1 Jan. 3/6: Some of your contemporaries have indeed [...] gone ‘flapdoodle’ mad about the sensation [boat] race from New York.at flapdoodle, adv.
Dundee Advertiser 1 Oct. 5/1: The ‘Devil’s regiment of the line’ unfortunately never scarce of recruits or seasoned veterans. It is because of this that we are compelled keep an elaborate police and prison system.at devil’s regiment (n.) under devil, n.
Dundee Advertiser 29 Mar. 5/1: The nefarious traffic of the ‘carrion’ or ‘cagmag’ butcher [...] is carried on in certain quarters.at cagmag, adj.
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