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Morn. Advertiser (London) 12 Feb. 3/2: A bruising match between a shoe-maker [...] and a waggoner [...] took place on Saturday.at bruising, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 12 Feb. 3/2: A bruising match between a shoe-maker [...] and a waggoner [...] took place on Saturday. Morn. Advertiser (London) 5 Aug. 3/3: Adzooks, I have something else to do than talk about prayers and sermons.at adzooks!, excl.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 4 May 1/3: One of the female sooty tribe.at sooty, adj.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 4 May 1/3: [A] gemmen of the stay-tape and buckram art.at staytape, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 26 July 3/4: ‘Is this the Green Park?’ will cry a youth from Shamrock-shire.at Shamrockshire, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 22 Aug. 4/3: The glims were doused and a prime lark ensued [...] which produced claret, and a few queer ogles.at queer ogles (n.) under queer, adj.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 14 Apr. 3/4: ‘Never show the whites of your squinters in that way, for fear you should overstrain them’.at squinter, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 19 Feb. 3/2: He was down to a thing or two; was always fly, and not to had even by an old-un.at old ’un (n.) under old, adj.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 11 Nov. 3/2: Copper, the gypsey [...] was selected [...] to introduce on the London boards a Shamrockshire hero.at Shamrockshire, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 28 Oct. 3/1: He called her a snaggle-toothed old b— .at snaggle-tooth, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 20 Sept. 2/2: The nomination of agents, the calling of diverse meetings [...] and the perusal of various slips of paper (no sham Abraham Newland’s) that may be put under the saucers or plates.at sham Abraham Newland (v.) under Abraham Newland, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 20 June 3/3: Free Public-house and Wine Vaults, just off the stones, in one of the most pleasant situations near London.at off the stones under stones, the, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 29 Apr. 3/3: Bustard took the lead and kept at a good bat to the Bushes, where Butterfly came up, and a head to head race followed.at bat, n.3
Morn. Advertiser (London) 18 Sept. 4/1: A complaint against Dominick Fagan, a platter-faced Lough-Neath man.at platter-faced, adj.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 2 Oct. 4/2: These ladies had quarrelled about a ‘swell buz-man’ [...] and it also appeared that [...] the ‘swell buz-man,’ was so disgusted with the quanel that he took himself off ‘vith a vidow’ who kept chandler’s shop.at swell buz(z)man (n.) under buz, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 2 Oct. 4/2: [T]he very men greatly prized by rival damsels are the respective callings, in the flash vocabulary known as follows; ‘Peter-men’ (coach robbers); ‘cracksmen’ (house-breakers); ‘fogle- hunters’ (pickpockets) [and] ‘buz-men,’ also a term for pickpockets in crowds.at peterman (n.) under peter, n.3
Morn. Advertiser (London) 2 Oct. 4/2: These ladies had quarrelled about a ‘swell buz-man’ and [...] the lady who had received the worst of the battle appealed to the Office for ‘a slang’ (the flash term for an assault warrant) against the more successful combatant.at slang, n.1
Morn. Advertiser (London) 27 Dec. 3/3: [H]e is well known in the country as a ‘slanging cove,’ and delights the rustics with his feats of ground and lofty tumbling and tight-rope dancing, as manager of a fashionable booth that yearly graces Bartholomew Fair with its spangled elegance.at slang cove (n.) under slang, n.1
Morn. Advertiser (London) 5 Nov. 4/3: His companion told him that was now a prime ‘nick’ for a piece of ‘squeeze’. Mr Wyatt — ‘What do you mean?’ [...] ‘They are flash terms, Sir. — “Nick” means opportunity and “squeeze” signifies silk.at nick, n.1
Morn. Advertiser (London) 4 Feb. 3/3: Joe Fishwicke [...] paraded his splendid Fancy rattle-traps.at rattletrap, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 23 Jan. 4/1: She saluted Mr Murphy with a box on the ear [...] and made him roar like a town bull.at roar like a town bull (v.) under roar, v.
Morn. Advertiser 18 Jan. 3/5: Baker gave evidence [...] He had never seen the game before. Mr. Laing.— What did they call it? Baker.— ‘Quod him,’ your Worship. I learned that they called it ‘Coddam, or Coddum, or Quod him’.at coddam, n.
Morn. Advertiser 9 Jan. 1/5: here was nothing noble him. He was a made-up thing, unreal as a Bartholomew baby.at bartholomew baby, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 5 Dec. 1/3: In the forecastle they had bum-sturgeon, which is minister’s muns (bullock’s head) made into soup.at minister’s face, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 5 Dec. 1/3: [A]n empty coach, the mad woman; the whip, a tool .at mad woman (n.) under mad, adj.
Morn. Advertiser 5 Dec. 1/3: A Custom-house cutter hails a market-boat. [...] ‘What’s your lading?’ ‘Fruit and timber.’ Anglice, birchen brooms and potatoes.at timber, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 5 Dec. 1/3: [A]n empty coach, the mad woman; the whip, a tool .at tool, n.1
Morn. Advertiser (London) 28 Sept. 4/1: The avenues [...] were crowded with cadgers [...] from the begging-letter imposter to the area sneak, the latter being considered the lowest class of beggars.at area-sneak, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 7 Jan. 1/6: MAGAZINES. The Sporting Magazine.— Though not one the tiptop sawyers, the present number of our sporting friend enters the field in very fairish style.at top sawyer, n.
Morn. Advertiser (London) 30 June 4/2: A lilac-striped waistcoat, with buttons of real silver, light drab smallclothes, and anklejacks.at ankle-jack (n.) under ankle, n.
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