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Coventry Eve. Teleg. 30 Dec. 4/3: Bucklow was excessively riled [...] and called the boatswain a darnation old woman.at darnation, adj.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 30 Dec. 4/3: Bucklow was excessively riled [...] and called the boatswain a darnation old woman. Coventry Eve. Teleg. 21 Feb. 3/4: An Impudent Swindle [...] Another able fleecer [...] appears on the horizon, or rather disappears — for the individual [...] has departed [...] taking with him a pocket-book well stuffed with bank notes.at fleecer, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 8 Aug. 2/5: As though the knight of the napkin had not enough to suffer from the ordinary customer jumping down his throat.at ...the napkin under knight of the..., n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 17 Sept. 4/4: Law sakes, Mrs Jones, You know I ain’t no musician.at law sakes! (excl.) under laws!, excl.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 21 Sept. 4/3: ‘I shall never live in Dillford.’ ‘Never is a long word, Mr Graham’.at long word (n.) under long, adj.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 29 Aug. 3/1: [She] took her two children to the garret of the house and hanged them. She then ‘noosed’ herself.at noose, v.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 1 Sept. 4/4: Thou’st a rum cove to tache folks the road to heaven when thou do’s na know the road to Owdham.at rum, adj.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 5 Oct. 3/1: ‘corching’ in London [...] unrestrained, in many cases intemperate, riding of metropolitan cyclists must sooner or later bring them within legal restraint.at scorcher, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 20 Apr. 3/6: The very best pipe [...] is the ‘yard of clay’ or ‘churchwarden’.at yard of clay (n.) under yard, n.4
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 1 Apr. 4/3: ‘Why don’t you swear off? Old Soak ‘I be sworn off water.at soak, n.1
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 1 Sept. 3/5: Tamoworth Athletic; coklours, blue shirts, red and white striped knicks.at knicks, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 11 Mar. 4/1: ‘ad-zounds!’ he exclaimed to himself.at gadsnouns! (excl.) under gad, n.1
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 8 Oct. 4/2: No, Gubbins, you will never be a brainworker.at gubbins, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 16 Dec. 3/6: Now, wifey, begin with your curtain lecture, else I shan’t get to sleep, being so accustomed to it.at wifey, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 22 July 2/5: One hopes that we shall have no ‘jiggery-pokery’ about the business.at jiggery-pokery, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 17 Oct. 3/3: That’s my gay old flower. You’ve spotted the winner.at old flower (n.) under old, adj.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 29 Dec. 2/7: It was a three to one chance against me; they were three-handed.at -handed, adj.
Coventry Eve. Tel. 11 Dec. 2/5: The ‘1812’ overture as a musical shivaree.at shivoo, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 12 May 2/4: It is a very kddish thing to my mind.at kiddish (adj.) under kid, n.1
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 5 Oct. 1/6: You must know the lad that we’re all in such a fandangle about — the rector’s son, who is giving us fits over what I maintain is a schoolboy’s prank.at fandangle, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 13 Oct. 1/6: His great leg of mutton fist descended on the hand [and] the grasp of the huge fist tightened.at mutton-fist (n.) under mutton, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 13 Nov. 1/6: If ’e don’t go an’ muddle up ’is spouses to-day, I’ll be sugared.at sugared, adj.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 9 Sept. 4/1: [headline] Well-known Turfite’s Bankruptcy.at turfite, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 8 Oct. 2/2: Enough of Bounce [...] he German people are showing [...] hearty disdain at the boastful lies which they are still being uncreasingly fed in regard to their ‘successes’ in the war.at bounce, v.1
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 5 Oct. 2/4: Mobocracy spells strike, revolution, anarchy —the dissolution of society.at mob, n.2
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 3 Jan. 2/3: The Russian negotiators [...] are clearly in no mood to yield to the ‘soft-sawder’ of the wily gentleman.at soft sawder, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 10 Mar. 4/2: Stanley Lupino is a real side-splitter.at side-splitter, n.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 16 Apr. 5/2: ‘I have other things to do beside wasting my time coming to bun fights.’ [...] ‘You must not refer to the ceremony as a bun-fight’.at bunfight (n.) under bun, n.3
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 23 July 4/2: ‘Jewish piano’ — a cash register.at Jewish piano (n.) under Jewish, adj.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 23 July 4/2: ‘Thirteen clean shirts’ [...] three months’ hard labour.at thirteen clean shirts (n.) under thirteen, adj.
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