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Belfast Wkly News 17 Jan. 2/5: He denounced the landlords, ‘polished off’ several individuals and [...] concluded his harangue with a ‘hit’ at the Town Council.at polish off, v.
Belfast Wkly News 17 Jan. 2/5: He denounced the landlords, ‘polished off’ several individuals and [...] concluded his harangue with a ‘hit’ at the Town Council. Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/1: That young fellow with the cheese-cutter cap is ‘dodging Tommy’.at cheese-cutter (n.) under cheese, n.1
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/2: Your bloke in the corner [...] is a mush-faker [...] but his doner [...] tells fortunes, and so he don’t work much’.at dona, n.
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/2: I reckon ‘he’s on the downright,’ getting his grub and doss the best way he can.at downright, n.
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/2: There’s a cove [...] who ‘gammons’ he’s a broken-down merchant and he’s got the gift of the gab so that he can make folks believe it.at gammon, v.
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/2: The griddling fraternity were were represented.at griddle, v.
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/2: The bridegroom was pronounced a ‘regular jannocky bloke’.at jannock, adj.
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/2: Sam [...] told me the ‘lurk’ [...] of most of the lodgers.at lurk, n.
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/2: Blest if there ain’t ‘Mouching Sam’.at mooch, v.
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/1: I never dreamt that I, a barrister, would ever become [...] a common tramp, known [...] as ‘Carrotty Joe’ and credited with being an ‘A1 mumper’.at mumper, n.
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/1: It’s all very well for you, Joe, with a good pair of ’stamps’ on your feet.at stamps, n.1
Belfast Wkly News 21 Dec. 3/2: The coppers were put fly to her, and after a two stretch in the ‘Steel’ [...] she left the ‘Smoke’’.at Steel, the, n.
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