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Jersey Indep. 9 Dec. 4: Here was John Thomas, once the cynosure of housmeaids’ eyes — once honoured, perchance, by countesses with commands to bring up coal scuttles.at John Thomas, n.
Jersey Indep. 9 Dec. 4: Here was John Thomas, once the cynosure of housmeaids’ eyes — once honoured, perchance, by countesses with commands to bring up coal scuttles. Jersey Indep. 15 Dec. 2/6: In some of the selecter circles of St Giles’s and Field-lame it was considered a breach of etiquette to call a gentleman who lived by public mendicancy a Beggar. An ‘asker’ was the polite apellation.at asker, n.
Jersey Indep. 22 Feb. 4/2: He called Lord Brougham a ‘nasty palaverer,’ and believed he only gave the people ‘soft sawder’.at palaverer (n.) under palaver, v.
Jersey Indep. 14 Jan. 7/4: No one can tell why [...] the queen of clubs [is] ‘Queen Bess’.at Queen Bess, n.
Jersey Indep. 14 Jan. 7/4: Breef cards are those which are made slightly larger’.at brief, n.1
Jersey Indep. 14 Jan. 7/4: No one can tell why sailors should have dubbed the four of clubs ‘the devil’s bed-post’.at devil’s bedpost (n.) under devil, n.
Jersey Indep. 14 Jan. 7/4: No one can tell why [...] the four of spades [is] ‘Ned Stokes’.at ned stokes, n.
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