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[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. 7 Oct. 8/2: John King, a pikey, pleaded guilted to allowing three horses to stray on the highway.
at pikey, n.
[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. 23 Sept. 3/2: I was also on the bloomin’ spot; and may I be jiggered if he wasn’t brought there in a cab.
at jiggered, adj.1
[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. in Fifty Years Ago (1934) 10/4: Down With It, said Mr Boosey [...] declaring that all the misery in the world is caused by drink. A Brother Bung would be inclined to form this as rather a boosey statement.
at brother of the bung (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. 31 May 7/1: Take it easy men of muscle! / Take it easy men of brain! / You may stumble if you hurry / And you nothing then will gain.
at take it easy under take it, v.
[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. 16 Mar. 6/7: The boy [...] threw up that career in a fit [...] by bidding the teacher ‘Go to Putney — on a pig’.
at go to Putney (on a pig)! (excl.) under Putney, n.
[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. 5 May 5/4: ‘Here, pull my leg,’ said Jones. ‘No need, old man, what I have told you is what actually happened’.
at pull the other one (it’s got bells on) under pull, v.
[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. 25 Jan. 5/4: ‘Pills for chickens,’ exclaimed Jones. ‘Pull my other leg’.
at pull the other one (it’s got bells on) under pull, v.
[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. 19 July 8/1: He was the kind of chap who could be described as ‘slightly puggled’.
at poggled, adj.
[UK] Sevenoaks Chron. 1 Nov. n.p.: It ran only twice a day. Any other time [...] you had to ride Shank’s pony.
at shanks’s pony, n.
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