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Coventry Herald 20 Aug. 1/2: The beadle said, that sort of marriage amounted to nothing more than a broomstick marriage.at broomstick marriage, n.
Coventry Herald 20 Aug. 1/2: The beadle said, that sort of marriage amounted to nothing more than a broomstick marriage. Coventry Herald 19 Nov. 4/4: As soon as he saw the Newcastle constable enter the room [...] Uncle Ben jumped up and swore his Nevey should not go.at nevvy, n.
Coventry Herald 28 June 4/3: [He] has dubbed himself ‘X.Y.Z.’ an excellent definition, for he has proved himself to be a real Ex-Wise Head [...] trying to show up Mr Cobbett and the Radicals; but. weak man, how he fails.at wise-head (n.) under wise, adj.
Coventry Herald 26 May 2/1: ‘Did you niver hear of Mullingar heifers?’ ‘Never.’ ‘Why, you see, the women in West Meath, they say, is thick in the legs [...] and so there’s a saying again thim, ‘You’re beef to the heels like a Mullingar heifer’.at beef to the heel(s) (adj.) under beef, n.1
Coventry Herald 11 Oct. 2/3: Them there long beggars stand for pots [...] and these here short uns is for pints.at beggar, n.
Coventry Herald 11 Oct. 2/3: Now six long uns and ten short uns is four and a ‘joey’ and twelve dots is a ‘bob’ more, vich makes together five and fourpence.at joey, n.1
Coventry Herald 14 Aug. 2/1: Open your mouth and down it goes, gulp by gulp [...] As you catawampou—ishly chaw it up.at catawampusly, adv.
Coventry Herald 14 Aug. 2/1: Nobody gives them the water they want [...] Till they catch a fine youth and tickle his toby.at toby, n.1
Coventry Herald 25 Nov. 2/8: [He] said there was nothing a cockroach liked so much as a ‘Norfolk Howard’ .at Norfolk Howard, n.
Coventry Herald 14 Mar. 4/7: The man [...] dreamed that a flag was hung in front of his house, and that he was riding in a butcher’s wagon to the pest house.at butcher wagon (n.) under butcher, n.1
Coventry Herald 25 Mar. 7/2: How filthy the champagne was last night! I feel so chippy this morning.at chippy, adj.1
Coventry Herald 30 Jan. 6/6: Several specimens of the boneshaker of different dates [...] follow.at bone-shaker (n.) under bone, n.1
Coventry Herald 15 Jan. 3/3: So the lumbering four-wheel rattle-trap has been going out of fashion.at rattletrap, n.
Coventry Herald 8 June 3/3: The Liberal Unionists have cut up nasty.at cut up rough, v.
Coventry Herald 19 Apr. 6: The expression for showing firmness, ‘to stand to one’s pan-pudding’.at stand to one’s pan-pudding (v.) under stand, v.2
Coventry Herald 18 Dec. 3/3: ’Enry (on the cadge): ‘Scuse a starvin’ man [...] can I ’ave that there bone after your dorg ’as done with it?at on the (grand) cadge under cadge, the, n.
Coventry Herald 11 June 2/3: Within another half hour, what seemed to be sheer bull-headed, dumb luck brought a casual automobile to Mesquite.at bullhead luck, n.
Coventry Herald 6 Jan. 2/4: Slippery sam lloked as if he meant to put his threat into execution.at slippery sam, n.
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