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The London Miscellany; Being a Collection of Several Scarce and Valuable Pieces choose

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[UK] ‘The Beau Monde’ in London Misc. 3: There’s your Cits that have their Tits, / In Finsbury so sweet. / But costlier Tits they keep, God wot! / In Bond and Poultney-Street.
at tit, n.1
[UK] London Misc. 5 May 201: He said he had been in the habit of frequenting mock auctions [...] They had a barker to entice people in [F&H].
at barker, n.1
[UK] London Misc. 3 Mar. 58/1: I’ve jist crept out o’ chokey. This is the twenty-ninth time I’ve been took that way, and I’m jist gone twenty [F&H].
at chokey, n.
[UK] London Misc. 3 Mar. 58, col. 3: I don’t think that’s no little let-down for a cove as has been tip-topper in his time, and smelt the insides of all the coops in the three kingdoms [F&H].
at coop, n.1
[UK] London Misc. 3 Mar. 57: Bug-hunting (robbing drunken men) was about the best game out, and he added, ‘I don’t think that’s no little let-down for a cove as has been tip-topper in his time.’ [F&H].
at let-down, n.
[UK] London Misc. 19 May 235: If the mare was such a fizzer why did you sell her? [F&H].
at fizzer, n.1
[UK] London Misc. 19 May 235: Theres my flapper on the strength of it. Guy shook hands with the eccentric stranger heartily [F&H].
at flapper, n.1
[UK] London Misc. 3 Mar. 57: It was a regular trosseno (bad one). If it went on that always, he said, he should precious soon nommus (cut it) [F&H].
at nammus, v.
[UK] London Misc. 5 May, 202: I don’t think I told you all the business. A precious queer start it was [F&H].
at queer start (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] London Misc. 3 Mar. 57: You’d better be a screever if they ask you [...] You mean a begging-letter-writer? [F&H].
at screever, n.
[UK] London Misc. 57: He used to be a shoful man once — dealt in bad money.
at shoful-man (n.) under shoful, n.
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