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Framlingham Wkly News 22 Dec. 4/6: The Board of Green Cloth [...] The gamblers at Foretdechene are terribly in earnest [...] as many sitting as can find room round the green-cloth covered board.at board of green cloth (n.) under board, n.1
Framlingham Wkly News 22 Dec. 4/6: The Board of Green Cloth [...] The gamblers at Foretdechene are terribly in earnest [...] as many sitting as can find room round the green-cloth covered board. Framlingham Wkly News 30 Mar. 4/7: Sergeant Kite invites the War Office to consider whether, if the soldier is allowed threepence-half-penny a day, it will not be as well honestly to announce that his pay is in reality limited to that amount of coppers?at Sergeant Kite, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 30 Mar. 2/6: I don’t like to sit buried in plush in the waiting parlour.at sit in the plush (v.) under plush, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 4 July 3/6: Fortunately medical science can distinguish between lunacy [...] and its scape-gallows counterfeit.at scapegallows, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 31 Dec. 2/7: There was the sympathy [...] showered upon him by his brothers and sisters of the sock and buskin.at brother (of the) buskin (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Framlingham Wkly News 6 May 2/2: I will take a full dose to-night. Will die game as a pebble, thinking of you.at game as a pebble (adj.) under pebble, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 25 Feb. 1/3: ‘Well, yer a rum cove.’ observed one of the men.at rum cove (n.) under rum, adj.
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] A pickpocket’s hands are his ‘daddlers’ or ‘dips’.at daddler, n.1
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] To ‘prat up the dancers’ is to run or walk upstairs.at track (up) the dancers (v.) under dancers, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] A pickpocket’s hands are his ‘daddlers’ or ‘dips’.at dip, n.1
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] Woe betide the ‘shyster’ (cheat) who tries and ‘duck-shoving’ (bamboozling).at duck-shoving (n.) under duck, n.1
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] His ‘fakements’ are his burgling tools.at fakement, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] To ‘grease’ is to take hasty flight.at grease (off) (v.) under grease, v.1
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] To give him the ‘straight griffin’ is to give him the straight tip.at griffin, n.4
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] To ‘nark,’ the darkest crime in the thieves’ decalogue, is to lodge an information against a confederate.at nark, v.1
Framlingham Wkly News 29 Oct. 3/7: Up with your shick-shack or down comes a paddy-whack.at paddywhack, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] ‘Poge-hunter’ means purse-thief.at poge-hunter (n.) under pogue, n.2
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] ‘Red clock and slang,’ gold watch and chain.at red clock (n.) under red, adj.
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] To ‘ruck’ is to back on a pal.at ruck, v.
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] Woe betide the ‘shyster’ (cheat) who tries and ‘duck-shoving’ (bamboozling).at shyster, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 8 Dec. 3/7: Thieves’ Dialect [...] ‘Snider’ or ‘snidesman’ [is] a passer of counterfeit coin.at snidesman (n.) under snide, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 12 Jan. 2: In the mind of a pugilist, a man has [...] a ‘snuff-box’ or a ‘smeller,’ not a nose.at snuff-box (n.) under snuff, n.2
(1830s) Framlingham Wkly News 29 Oct. 3/6: His Majesty ‘Silly Billy’ [...] as William IV of England was nicknamed.at silly billy (n.) under silly, adj.
Framlingham Wkly News 10 Feb. 3/3: ‘Who is the old blighter in the rice-bags?’.at ricebags (n.) under rice, n.
Framlingham Wkly News 4 Jan. 2/6: .at peter-biter (n.) under peter, n.3
Framlingham Wkly News 4 Jan. 2/6: The lingo of Cockney criminals [...] ‘red clock and slang’.at red clock (n.) under red, adj.
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