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Leighton Buzzard Obs. 29 Oct. 3/4: Women at loggerheads. Emma baines [...] then turned up her sleeves, hit complainant in the eye, blackending it.at get/go/come to loggerheads (v.) under loggerhead, n.
Leighton Buzzard Obs. 29 Oct. 3/4: Women at loggerheads. Emma baines [...] then turned up her sleeves, hit complainant in the eye, blackending it. Leighton Buzzard Obs. 13 Feb. 7/5: ‘This Beer is beastly bad tonight’ [...] ‘Beastly bad! Whatcher mean? No beer’s bad’ .at beastly, adv.
Leighton Buzzard Obs. 10 Mar. 5/3: The letter was [...] characterised [...] as a ‘tissue of falsehoods,’ while the writer described as a ‘psalm-smiter’.at psalm-smiter (n.) under psalm, n.
Leighton Buzzard Obs. 3 Oct. 6/1: Carpen eters, tin plate workers, and pen-pushers have got their union.at pen-pusher, n.
Leighton Buzzard Obs. 10 Oct. 6/2: There were times in my home when we had not any of these to spread on our bread [...] It wa s a case of ‘bread and pullet’ for breakfast.at bread and pullet (n.) under bread, n.1
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