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Cornishman 5 Dec. 4/4: I knew a man who had ‘lotioned’ his throat 15 consecutive times in one evening.at lotion, n.
Cornishman 5 Dec. 4/4: I knew a man who had ‘lotioned’ his throat 15 consecutive times in one evening. Cornishmen 4 Mar. 4/5: At the Port he had some old birds who are not to be caught by chaff [...] nor yet so ‘thick-skulled,’ as Pat says.at old bird, n.
Cornishman 3 June 8/4: As grey as grannum’s cat.at grannam, n.2
Cornishman 13 May 3/3: ‘Happy Eliza’ [...] has been assailed in the streets with stones, rotten fish, and ‘rotten everything’.at happy Eliza (n.) under happy, adj.
Cornishman 12 Aug. 8/3: Marquis Money-bags! This notable member of Upper Tendom enforces payment from Sunday scholars.at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
Cornishmen 4 Mar. 4/5: His audience was of a different sort to those he tried to soap over at Helston.at soap over (v.) under soap, v.
Cornishman 12 Aug. 8/3: Marquis Money-bags! This notable member of Upper Tendom enforces payment from Sunday scholars.at upper-tendom (n.) under upper ten, n.
Cornishmen 4 Mar. 4/5: At the Port he had some old birds who are not to be caught by chaff [...] nor yet so ‘thick-skulled,’ as Pat says.at thick-skulled (adj.) under thick, adj.
Cornishman 12 Feb. 6/1: [He] would be hanged if the duffer didn’t put ’em in his pocket and waltz off with ’em.at waltz, v.
Cornishman 10 Feb. 7/6: Any tender-0fiooted pilgrim from Missouri, Jack Mormon from Utah [...] can explode giant power in the crevice of a rock.at jack Mormon, n.
Cornishman 9 Mar. 7/5: Several young men were having a chat [...] one said ‘Here they have a new name for the devil [...] it’s ‘Old Smutty Face.’ At that moment the black man [...] happened to pass by [and] asked them ‘who were they calling smutty face?’.at smutty, adj.
Cornishman 7 May 6/5: What is that i see — Billingsgate Pheasants! Just give me a couple!at Billingsgate pheasant, n.
Cornishman 29 Apr. 5/4: Bavaria’s Cracky King. In consequence of the state of the King of Bavaia’s mind a council of regency will be appointed.at cracky, adj.
Cornishman 6 Jan. 4/3: Specimens of mumpers' or tramps' take [...] fake the boshamingy, play the fiddle.at bosh, n.2
Cornishman 6 Jan. 4/3: Specimens of mumpers' or tramps' talk [...] katter, a pound.at couter, n.1
Cornishman 6 Jan. 4/3: Specimens of mumpers' or tramps' talk [...] dunnux, a cow.at dunnock, n.
Cornishman 6 Jan. 4/3: Specimens of mumpers' or tramps' talk [...] finnif, a five-pound note.at finnif, n.
Cornishman 6 Jan. 4/3: Specimens of mumpers' or tramps' talk [...] grannum, a barn.at grannam, n.1
Cornishman 6 Jan. 4/3: Specimens of mumpers' or tramps' talk [...] tom-pat, a parson.at tom pat, n.1
Cornishman 6 Jan. 4/3: Specimens of mumpers' or tramps' talk [...] spreaddum, butter.at spread, n.
Cornishman 6 Jan. 4/3: Specimens of mumpers' or tramps' talk [...] stamp-drawers, stockings.at stamp-drawers (n.) under stamps, n.1
Cornishman 31 May 7/1: I want to keep out of ‘choker’ but how can I manage it?at choker, n.2
Cornishman 14 June 7/3: He was summarily marched off to ‘choker’ for stealing food intended for Her Majesty’s pigs.at choker, n.2
Cornishman 14 June 7/3: [...] getting his dyspeptical neighbours to ‘sling’ him surplus ‘eighters’ with ‘puddings’ on a Thursday [...] He could devour as many surplus ‘tokes’ as Jumbo could stale buns.at eighter, n.
Cornishman 28 June 7/2: He preached unlike any other journeyman soul-saver, as if he believed what he said.at journeyman soul-saver, n.
Cornishman 14 June 7/3: [...] getting his dyspeptical neighbours to ‘sling’ him surplus ‘eighters’ with ‘puddings’ on a Thursday [...] He could devour as many surplus ‘tokes’ as Jumbo could stale buns.at sling, v.
Cornishman 14 June 7/1: The Cockneys from the ‘great smoke’ never fraternised with the ‘hardware blokes’ from Birmingham.at Smoke, the, n.
Cornishman 5 Dec. 3/2: It happened one day that a mad Tom of Bedlam came up to Suir Thomas, [...] crying, ‘Leap, Tom — leap’!at Tom of Bedlam, n.
Cornishman 14 Nov. 7/1: Then the human beer-barrels began to fight.at beer barrel (n.) under beer, n.
Cornishman 14 Nov. 7/1: A main feature [...] would be to get ‘sho jolly fullish (hic) that you don’t knowish a glassh beersh from (hic) cart-greash!’.at full, adj.
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