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Whitstable Times 18 May 3/4: Why, I thought you were as thick as thieves.at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
Whitstable Times 18 May 3/4: Why, I thought you were as thick as thieves. Whitstable Times (Kent) 19 July 2/3: ‘Ugh-wow! Suffering Moses,’ he grunted.at Moses!, excl.
Whitstable Times (Kent) 19 July 2/3: ‘Ugh-wow! Suffering Moses,’ he grunted.at suffering —!, excl.
Whitstable Times 16 Feb. 7/1: A gang of swindlers whose speciality [...] was fraudulent imitation of pawn tickets [...] in Paris. Avuncular guarantees [...] have frequently been falsified in that city.at avuncular, adj.
Whitstable Times 23 Feb. 7/6: The man tried to pullhim along by putting a hhooked stick in his large ‘flapper’.at flapper, n.1
Whitstable Times 30 Nov. 6/3: ‘By jinkers, pap,’ sez Jerry.at by jinks! (excl.) under jinks, n.
Whitstable Times 7 Sept. 3/3: Miss Moneybags: ‘Malcolm, a suspicion lurks within me that you don’t love me, but want to marry me for my money’.at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
Whitstable Times 3 May 7/6: Defendant said he had just seen some extracts from that soppy thing plaintiff called a catechism, and asked ‘whoever suckled him upon such bosh?’.at soppy, adj.
Whitstable Times 18 Jan. 4/1: Thunder and darnation!at thunder!, excl.
Whitstable Times 11 July 6/4: ‘No!’ ‘Sure as shooting [...] you’ll be a goner’.at goner, n.1
Whitstable Times 28 Mar. 3/1: Holy snakes! [...] why do you keep all these pigs.at holy hell! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
Whitstable Times 11 July 6/4: I’m giving you a friendly tip. Look out for sawed-off.at sawed-off, n.
Whitstable Times 20 Feb. 6/5: Many a strapping fellow will not buckle down to work.at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
Whitstable Times 23 Jan. 6/5: A milkman met the local sweep [and] asked him him when he had a good wash last, to which the knight of the brush immediately replied [etc.].at ...the brush (and shovel) under knight of the..., n.
Whitstable Times 31 Dec. 2/1: I never could get a woman to say ‘yes’ until last night, and I’ll be swizzled if I know how this one happened to.at I’ll be swizzled under swizzle, v.2
Whitstable Times 15 July 3/5: Tips to Strangers [...] who are to visit Chicago [...] Don’t get acquainted with strangers who pretend to know you, this encourages the bunco man.at bunco man (n.) under bunco, n.
Whitstable Times 15 July 3/5: Tips to Strangers [...] who are to visit Chicago [...] Don’t flash your bank roll upon the crowded thoroughfare.at flash, v.1
Whitstable Times 29 Sept. 4/1: What shall I say about that old Mulligrubs the millionaire [...] He kicked me downstairs.at mulligrubs, n.
Whitstable Times 30 Nov. 6/4: ‘No, siree, Bob!’ yelled the crowd.at no siree (bob)!, excl.
Whitstable Times 16 Mar. 3: [He] invited most of the expert pickpockets then at liberty to a house in the ‘Dials’.at Dials, the, n.
Whitstable Times 16 July 5/3: He told them it was a ‘mug’s game’ for dips to work on their own .at dip, n.1
Whitstable Times 14 Dec. 2/1: I’d give a lot to see that herring-gutted thing spitted on the end of your toasting-fork.at toasting fork, n.
Whitstable Times 14 Dec. 2/1: Paul looked ‘ugly’ enough then, as he drew himself up to his full height and glared — positively glared.at ugly, adj.
Whitstable Times 29 Sept. 7/6: Cheese and Ham Skippers. The small cylindrical maggot found in cheese [and] smoked ham [...] is familiar to almost everyone by reason of its wonderful skipping and leaping powers.at skipper, n.4
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