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[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 25 Mar. 4/1: If a raw chaw with your gums don’t agree / [...] putyeen [sic] is the nectar for you, love, an’ me.
at raw chaw, n.
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 25 Mar. 4/1: In the cillars [sic] below dines the slashin’ young fellows.
at slashing, adj.
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 14 Apr. 4/1: We [...] contriv’d to save our bacon.
at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 14 Apr. 4/1: ’fegs I’m land-lock’d for a rhyme.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 14 Apr. 4/1: Jack calls the red-coats ‘Lobester’ for a spree.
at lobster, n.1
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 5 Jan. 2/3: He did not become the asker of alms for a wealthy congregation to condemn ‘the ragged men and barefoot female beggary’.
at asker, n.
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 20 July 1/2: An editor out West walks into the affections of his ‘dead-head’ suscribers in the following genteel style: [etc].
at deadhead, adj.
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 20 July 1/2: ‘O you tarnal sap-heads, you green-tailed lizards, why don’t you come along and pay for your paper?’.
at sap-head, n.
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 21 June 4/4: On being charged with reckless driving [...] he remarked, with much bravado, that [...] he ‘didn’t care a rap’.
at not care a rap (for) (v.) under rap, n.2
[Ire] Southern Reporter (Cork) 10 Dec. 4/5: I do most thoroughly abominate and denounce [...] the monstrous hoops of whale-bone and basket-work, the lumbering bird-cages and hen-coops, [...] that the vain, the dull, or the vicious are parading themselves about in.
at birdcage, n.
[Ire] Sthn Reporter & Cork Courier 17 June 2/5: A great sacrilegious ‘bell-wether’ was welcomed by the crowd as a ‘corker’.
at bell-wether, n.
[Ire] Sthn Reporter & Cork Courier 17 June 2/5: A great sacrilegious ‘bell-wether’ was welcomed by the crowd as a ‘corker’.
at corker, n.2
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