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Northern Whig 1 Dec. 7/1: She’s the most conceited, selfish, uppish, wasteful wench in all Brigham!at uppish, adj.
Northern Whig 1 Dec. 7/1: She’s the most conceited, selfish, uppish, wasteful wench in all Brigham! Northern Whig (Antrim, N. Ireland) 18 Oct. 3/4: Those horible youths [...] with greasy caps and the Aggerawator curls, the low foreheads and the flattened noses, ‘roughs’ who are the real scum of a London mob.at aggerawator, n.
Northern Whig 27 Dec. 3/1: I’ll bet my hat th’ ain’t nary a priest [...] that cairs conviction to the min’ like the reveren’ Taranfeather.at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
Northern Whig (Belfast) 26 Mar. 7/5: Sergeant Kite has been abolished, and Charles street, his headquarters [...] What a cunning, fawning, swaggering, lying, plundering old ruffian was the gallant sergeant to be sure! a licensed hocusser and kidnapper, a chartered trafficker in flesh and blood!at Sergeant Kite, n.
Northern Whig 7 Aug. 6/1: ‘As busy as a nailor’.at busy as a nailor (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
Northern Whig 7 Aug. 6/1: Some of the words [...] like ‘eedyet’ for idiot are not far wrong.at eejit, n.
Northern Whig 7 Aug. 6/1: ‘evendible’ (severe).at sevendible, adj.
Northern Whig 9 Apr. 6/3: ‘Sevendible’ is a word that carries with it suggestions of weather [...] of the wintriest description.at sevendible, adj.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: Bread was cheerfully referred to as ‘strike me dead,’ beer as ‘cheer, boys, cheer,’ money as ‘bread and honey [and] work as ‘Jimmy Burke’.at bread and honey, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: [A]nd then, beating, [I] ran right into a slop, who pinched me.at beat, v.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I was fullied, and a black-box asked a couple of foont and ten deaner to be my mouthpiece.at black box (n.) under black, adj.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: Bread was cheerfully referred to as ‘strike me dead,’ beer as ‘cheer, boys, cheer,’ money as ‘bread and honey [and] work as ‘Jimmy Burke’.at cheer, boys, cheer, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I’d blanked it on the cly-faking lay at Kempton [races] so got a brief and took the rattler to Richmond.at brief, n.1
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: Bread was cheerfully referred to as ‘strike me dead,’ beer as ‘cheer, boys, cheer,’ money as ‘bread and honey [and] work as ‘Jimmy Burke’.at Jimmy Burke, n.
(con. late 19C) Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: ‘Ka-cab-Ka-lat’ [...] was the favourite ‘flash patter’ of the costermonger class [...] ‘Kacab-Kalat’ is really ‘back-talk’. One shop-boy would ask another, ‘Where’s the retsam?’ and the reply [...] ‘Texan Road,’ or ‘Enog to rennid.’ This interchange simply meant ‘Where’s the master?’ with the answer ‘Next door’ or ‘Gone to dinner’.at Ka-cab-Ka-lat, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: His voice was his ‘Hobson’s choice’.at Hobson’s (choice), n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I’d blanked it on the cly-faking lay at Kempton [races] so got a brief and took the rattler to Richmond.at cly-faker (n.) under cly, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: My blowen kidded a bloke into a panel crib and shook him of his thimble to put up the coal, but it wouldn’t fadge and I got three stretches.at cole, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: Bread was cheerfully referred to as ‘strike me dead,’ beer as ‘cheer, boys, cheer,’ money as ‘bread and honey [and] work as ‘Jimmy Burke’.at strike-me-dead, n.2
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I’d [...] took the rattler to Richmond where I piped a dead ’un and clicked.at dead one, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: In some parts of the East End of London the coster class [still] say ‘occabot,’ [and] ‘reeb.’ A boy is still a ‘yob,’ a woman a ‘namow,’ and a girl an ‘elrig’.at elrig, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: My blowen kidded a bloke into a panel crib and shook him of his thimble to put up the coal, but it wouldn’t fadge and I got three stretches.at fadge, v.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: Rabelais was adept in the ‘flash talk’ of his day.at flash, adj.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I was fullied, and a black-box asked a couple of foont and ten deaner to be my mouthpiece.at fully, v.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I was fullied, and a black-box asked a couple of foont and ten deaner to be my mouthpiece.at funt, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I couldn’t pipe no peter, and no wedge worth a hog.at hog, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: My blowen kidded a bloke into a panel crib and shook him of his thimble to put up the coal, but it wouldn’t fadge and I got three stretches.at kid, v.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I was fullied, and a black-box asked a couple of foont and ten deaner to be my mouthpiece.at mouthpiece, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: In some parts of the East End of London the coster class [still] say ‘occabot,’ [and] ‘reeb.’ A boy is still a ‘yob,’ a woman a ‘namow,’ and a girl an ‘elrig’.at nammo, n.
Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: In some parts of the East End of London the coster class [still] say ‘occabot,’ [and] ‘reeb.’ A boy is still a ‘yob,’ a woman a ‘namow,’ and a girl an ‘elrig’.at occabot, n.
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