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[Ire] Southern Reporter 31 May 4/1: Cast thee off! my outside skin, / Because thou’rt faded — seedy — thin — / Ne’er clasp thee more beneath my chin.
at skin, n.1
[UK] Southern Reporter 28 July 4/1: ‘Oh my good gracious sakes alive, I don’t know what will be done’.
at sakes!, excl.
[UK] Southern Reporter 15 July 2/5: The solo by the tenor sax horn being beautifully executed.
at sax, n.
[UK] Southern Reporter 3 Feb. 3/4: The women who met in the New Cut were simple 'prigs' [...] filchers of lard and bacon.
at filcher, n.
[UK] Southern Reporter (Selkirk) 17 June 3/3: [advert] Funeral Car [...] Black job masters should lose no time in securing one of these handsome carriages.
at black job (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Southern Reporter 1 Apr. 4/5: You must mingle freely with all denominations and classes; you must put off all the Johnny-Bull-ism of your country.
at John Bullism (n.) under John Bull, n.1
[UK] Southern Reporter 31 May 4/4: He goes along there ‘like a little cock o’ wax,’ as he is told.
at cock-a-wax (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] Southern Reporter 31 May 4/4: Tomorrow ain’t here, but the grub is, and so I’m a-going to get outside it while I can.
at get outside (of) (v.) under outside, adv.
[UK] Southern Reporter (Selkirk) 25 June 4/4: Then he saw a white hand [...] thrown back over the arm of a chair. ‘A woman! The impertinent baggage!’.
at baggage, n.
[UK] Southern Reporter 9 Nov. 4/4: Salute him, buillies, He’s the charley-pitcher for to handle this butter-box.
at bully, n.1
[Scot] Southern Reporter (Selkirk) 9 Nov. 4/4: Salute him, bullies, He’s the charley-pitcher for to handle this butter-box.
at charley-pitcher, n.
[UK] Southern Reporter 9 Nov. 4/4: That is how it stand with us, Mr Grainger — clear as mud in a wine-glass.
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[UK] Southern Reporter 9 Nov. 4/4: Salute him, buillies, He’s the charley-pitcher for to handle this butter-box [...] Let Swallow man the jaw-tackle, boys.
at jaw-tackle (n.) under jaw, v.1
[UK] Southern Reporter 13 Aug. 4/3: She remembered Mary as a genteel, gimpy-looking person.
at gimpy, adj.2
[UK] Southern Reporter 13 Aug. 4/3: Ye’re no’ quite so soncy as ye was.
at sonsy, adj.
[UK] Southern Reporter 21 Aug. 3/9: We fervently hope [...] that nae local clash-bag ’ill be as bluid-thirsty as tae convey even a whisper.
at clashbag, n.
[UK] Southern Reporter 2 Oct. 4/4: ‘A gent has ordered roast mutton.’ [...] ‘Yes, sir,’ breathed the distracted knight of the napkin.
at ...the napkin under knight of the..., n.
[UK] Southern Reporter 2nd ser. 472/2: The co-defendant, James Smith, answered, ‘I guess it ( — the mop) was there from Jump Street, I don't know’.
at jump street (n.) under jump, n.
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