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Examiner (London) Feb. 75 I: The play went on, amidst croaking, squeaking, barking [F&H].at bark, v.2
Examiner (London) Feb. 75 I: The play went on, amidst croaking, squeaking, barking [F&H]. Examiner (London) 17 May 317/1: That injudicious mixing of wines, which is called matrimony .at matrimony, n.
Examiner (London) 30 Apr. 11/2: I was struck by a man. I was stopped by a watchman [...] I am sold like a bullock in Smithfield Market.at sold like a bullock in Smithfield (adj.) under sold, adj.
Examiner (London) 7 Apr. 13/1: George I told the Duchess of kendal (his left-handed wife) that if he could he would appear to her after his death.at left-handed wife (n.) under left-handed, adj.
Examiner (London) 1 Jan. 7/1: They were pounced upon by an overfed man with a brandy face.at brandy-face (n.) under brandy, n.
Examiner (London) 1 Mar. 1/2: They speak through their cousins, the pumpkin-heads in both Houses.at pumpkin head, n.
Examiner (London) 14 June 5/2: Charles I and II, (the latter a black and rugged looking personage).at rugged, adj.
Examiner (London) 764/2: May threw a glass of the gin into Bishop’s tea, when the latter said, ‘are you going to locus or Burke me?’ Mr. Horner explained that ‘locus’ was a cant word to describe the act of putting a man in a state of stupidity. [The report of the same case in John Bull 5 Dec. 386/3 has: ‘Are you going to hocus (or burk) me’.] .at locus, v.
Examiner (London) 22 Apr. 12/1: Mrs Rebecca Higgins, a stout matronly-looking female, with a phiz of the genuine brandy blossom.at brandy blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Examiner (London) 187/2: [They] asked him if he would join them in a good thing, which was to carry away a landlord’s till of money, and that it would be a ‘gift’ (an easy task) .at gift, n.
Examiner (London) 845/1: Johnson huffed, as it is called, the murdered man; that is, threw his arms over his victim’s shoulders, and took the money from his pockets ... Johnson huffed and Fare robbed the deceased .at huff, v.
Examiner (London) 16 Feb. 13/1: The captain wanted [...] the malcontents to stand before him and he’d knock seven bells out of them.at knock seven bells out of (v.) under bell, n.1
Examiner (London) 12 June 5/2: ‘Slubberdegullion, quit my house’.at slabberdegullion, n.
Examiner (London) 2 Apr. n.p.: Almost any proceeding amounted to a contract of marriage. The parties might [...] hop over a broomstick.at jump (over) the broomstick, v.
Examiner (London) 10 Aug. 5/1: The colonel [...] is sure to [...] look out the next time the parties meet to take an antifogmatic.at antifogmatic, n.
Examiner (London) 10 Aug. 5/1: I’ll take the parchment crittur again [...] and whop it catawompously when we gits among the houses.at catawampusly, adv.
Examiner (London) 23 Nov. 4/3: Out 68-pounder smooth-bored guns [...] will pound Johnny Crappo’s ribs.at Johnny Crapose (n.) under johnny-, pfx
Examiner (London) 10 Aug. 5/1: I’ll take the parchment crittur again [...] and whop it catawompously when we gits among the houses.at whop, v.
Examiner (London) 17 Mar. 13/2: ‘That Fiddling Jack [...] He’s been about saying you was a Buz-man’.at buzman (n.) under buz, n.
Examiner (London) 5 July 19/1: Instructions on the pronunciation of St John. When this is a family name you should say Sinjin, but on no account must you talk of Sinjin Church or Sinjin the Baptist.at Sinjin’s Wood, n.
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