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Eddowes's Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales choose

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[UK] Eddowes’s Jrnl 2 July 1/7: William Hutton, of Birmingham, was an ungilt Brummagem button, but a man of strong native powers of mind.
at Brummagem button (n.) under Brummagem, adj.
[UK] Eddowes’s Jrnl 14 Dec. 2/4: The cool assurance of the swell mobsman.
at cool, adj.
[UK] Eddowes’s Jrnl 14 Dec. 2/4: All the thieves and murders posting red-hot to the gallows.
at red-hot, adv.
[UK] Eddowes’s Jrnl 14 Dec. 2/4: One gigantic culprit has been beaten into a very rainbow of bruises, probably in some savage encounter with the police.
at rainbow, n.
[UK] Eddowes’s Jrnl 29 Apr. 5/4: The style, I appreehend, Sir, is [...] in vulgar acception, three blue beans in a blue bladder.
at three blue beans in one blue bladder (n.) under three, adj.
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