Green’s Dictionary of Slang
[Donald Shaw] (con. 1860s) London in the Sixties 59: Smiling as if he had been awarded the victory he was undoubtedly choused out of.at chouse, v.
[Donald Shaw] (con. 1860s) London in the Sixties 52: The ‘Pic’ [...] was the resort of pickpockets, bullies and ‘soiled doves’ of a very mediocre class.at soiled dove, n.
[Donald Shaw] (con. 1860s) London in the Sixties 54: In those unenlightened days prizefighters [...] never forgot their place, and the illiterate abortions in rabbit-skin collars that intrude into every public resort at the present day and dub themselves ‘professors’ were creations happily unknown.at professor, n.
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