1871 Ballymena Obs. 19 Aug. 3/2: There was too much of a stepmother’s breath about the atmosphere.at stepmother’s breath, n.
1877 Ballymena Obs. 20 Jan. 7/6: Discusion then ensued [...] as to the quantity of tea required for a good ‘cup o’ scald’.at scald, n.
1891 Ballymena Obs. 23 Jan. 6/5: He asked how Srah Montgomery was getting on and what was the reason she did not come home, and Rea said that ‘she was as drunk as buggery and had fell and cut her brow’.at as buggery (adv.) under buggery, n.
1929 Ballymena Obs. 20 Dec. 11/7: ‘Bad,’ says he, ‘sevendible bad, never was worse’.at sevendible, adj.
1956 Ballymena Obs. 24 Feb. 10/4: ‘Did you not hear a wild dunnerin’, sir? [...] It was a sevendible clatter altogether’.at sevendible, adj.