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[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 30 Dec. 4/3: Bucklow was excessively riled [...] and called the boatswain a darnation old woman.
at darnation, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 1 Apr. 4/3: ‘Why don’t you swear off? Old Soak ‘I be sworn off water.
at soak, n.1
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 1 Sept. 3/5: Tamoworth Athletic; coklours, blue shirts, red and white striped knicks.
at knicks, n.
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 11 Mar. 4/1: ‘ad-zounds!’ he exclaimed to himself.
at gadsnouns! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 8 Oct. 4/2: No, Gubbins, you will never be a brainworker.
at gubbins, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 22 July 2/5: One hopes that we shall have no ‘jiggery-pokery’ about the business.
at jiggery-pokery, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 29 Dec. 2/7: It was a three to one chance against me; they were three-handed.
at -handed, adj.
[UK] Coventry Eve. Tel. 11 Dec. 2/5: The ‘1812’ overture as a musical shivaree.
at shivoo, n.
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 12 May 2/4: It is a very kddish thing to my mind.
at kiddish (adj.) under kid, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 9 Sept. 4/1: [headline] Well-known Turfite’s Bankruptcy.
at turfite, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 5 Oct. 2/4: Mobocracy spells strike, revolution, anarchy —the dissolution of society.
at mob, n.2
[UK] 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.
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 10 Mar. 4/2: Stanley Lupino is a real side-splitter.
at side-splitter, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] Coventry Eve. Teleg. 23 July 4/2: ‘Jewish piano’ — a cash register.
at Jewish piano (n.) under Jewish, adj.
[UK] 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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