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Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser choose

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[UK] Newry Examiner 22 Nov. 4/1: Oh, blazes! what’s this?
at blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[UK] Newry Examiner 20 Dec. 2/1: Will the Archdeacon and his allies [...] show the white feather? Twenty to one, that they will.
at show the (white) feather (v.) under show, v.
[UK] Newry Examiner 28 Dec. 3/1: And as for that yahoo of a Yankee [...] we wish we could catch him.
at yahoo, n.1
[UK] Newry Examiner 8 July 2/1: We wager the world to a China orange that the ‘habituees’ of Astley’s circus would beat an Eclipse.
at all the world to a china orange, phr.
[UK] Newry Examiner 13 Sept. 2/3: The daily pergrinations of a certain important personage in uniform who rejoices in the title of a ‘bang-beggar’.
at bang-beggar (n.) under bang, v.1
[UK] Newry Examiner 18 Sept. 3/6: 🎵 May you tickle his back and the beard on his jaw, / As you done with the hangman, Hyene Hayneau.
at tickle someone’s back (v.) under tickle, v.
[UK] Newry Examiner 23 Apr. 3/5: The people of Armagh entered into voluntary subscriptions and employed bang-beggars to go round the city.
at bang-beggar (n.) under bang, v.1
[UK] Newry Examiner 24 July 2/2: She said that [...] he had murdered her for ten years; he wanted her only to kill her out and out.
at out-and-out, adv.
[UK] Newry Examiner 10 July 2/4: Mr kennedy [...] escorted by an imported mob from the County Monaghan, all of whom were armed with sticks and bludgeons [...] and blue-mouldy for the want of a batin’’.
at blue mouldy (adj.) under mouldy, adj.
[UK] Newry Examiner 23 Sept. 2/4: Orangeism has triumphed. [...] Go revel again in your fiendish orgies, strike down the helpless woman and weeping baby, pull the houses about the heads of the Papists, [...] and tell them to go to hell or Connaught.
at go to hell or Connaught! (excl.) under hell, n.
[UK] Newry Examiner 10 May 3/3: We did not believe that he would take to his scrapers so soon as he has done.
at take to one’s scrapers (v.) under scraper, n.
[UK] Newry Examiner 20 Jan. 4/1: We must object to that upon poor Hayden, as harsh and unkind, especially from a brother of the brush.
at brother (of the) brush (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] ‘Song of the Ticket-of-Leave Man’ in Newry Examiner 21 Jan. ?/1: Crib-cracking or faking the cly, / Or tipping a taste o’ garotte.
at cly-faker (n.) under cly, n.
[UK] Newry Examiner 27 Feb. 3/5: The crow flies over the prettiest hunting country in ‘Shamrockshire’.
at Shamrockshire, n.
[UK] Newry Examiner 29 July 4/1: Mr Raven was only an undertaker [...] His spouse, Mrs Raven, [...] dressed in a black velvet cloak.
at raven, n.
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