Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Poor Man’s Guardian 31 Dec. 4/1: A circular has been issued by the sanctimonious inhabitants of Bishops Stortford, which for ignorance, hypocrisy and humbuggery, rivals the cant of the most beclouded fanatics.at humbuggery, n.
Poor Man’s Guardian 7 Apr. 7/1: The whole bench of black-guards had sworn by their generalissimo, the Devil, to subscribe no longer to the Guardian; so yours is not a black-guard publication.at blackguard, n.
Poor Man’s Guardian 7 Apr. 7/1: My friend’s cheap publication was nothing but a most sretched catch-penny.at catchpenny, n.
Poor Man’s Guardian 25 May 3/1: The blue-coated locusts [...] came down on them without ceremony.at bluecoat, n.
Poor Man’s Guardian 25 May 6/1: A man rushed out from the body of the police, and violently struck about him, having said to those behind him, ‘Now, go it, boys’.at go it, v.
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