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Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 25 Nov. 3/6: Lord E. was showy. He had a good deal of the quack about him. So much for Lord Ellenborough hooroo! (Polish him off — hurroo!).at hooroo!, excl.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 25 Nov. 3/6: Lord E. was showy. He had a good deal of the quack about him. So much for Lord Ellenborough hooroo! (Polish him off — hurroo!). Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 25 Nov. 3/6: Lord E. was showy. He had a good deal of the quack about him. So much for Lord Ellenborough hooroo! (Polish him off — hurroo!).at polish off, v.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 25 Nov. 3/6: Lord E. was showy. He had a good deal of the quack about him. So much for Lord Ellenborough hooroo! (Polish him off — hurroo!).at quack, n.1
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 23 Sept. n.p.: I was introduced to [...] a wealthy spur-maker, who was reputed to be worth a plum.at worth a plum (adj.) under plum, n.2
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 24 Feb. 2/6: ‘Indeed, he’s a quare man altogether [...] and it isn’t worth our while to be bothering with the likes of him’.at quare, adj.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 19 Mar. 3/4: A kind of slanging match had existed between the parties on the day named.at slanging match (n.) under slang, v.1
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 16 May 1/4: 🎵 ‘Oh, Bennison’s for a hat with ready Rhino’.at ready rhino (n.) under ready, adj.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 9 Apr. 2/2: Thieves’ Dialect [...] ‘chuck,’ acquittal.at chuck, n.2
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I heard a coffee stall customer ask [...] for a ‘Once or twice of Sexton Blake, please’ and the proprietor said, ‘Will you have it in your German or the linen draper?’.at German bands, n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I heard a coffee stall customer ask [...] for a ‘Once or twice of Sexton Blake, please’ and the proprietor said, ‘Will you have it in your German or the linen draper?’.at sexton blake, n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I have also learned [...] that ‘The Duke of Kent’ means rent [...] ‘Charley Prescott’ waistcoat, ‘Woolwich Piers’ ears [...] that a policeman is known as a ‘grass’ — short for grasshopper which rhymes with ‘copper’.at charlie prescott, n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I heard a coffee stall customer ask [...] for a ‘Once or twice of Sexton Blake, please’ and the proprietor said, ‘Will you have it in your German or the linen draper?’.at linen(-draper), n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I have also learned [...] that ‘The Duke of Kent’ means rent [...] ‘Charley Prescott’ waistcoat, ‘Woolwich Piers’ ears [...] that a policeman is known as a ‘grass’ — short for grasshopper which rhymes with ‘copper’.at duke (of Kent), n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I have also learned [...] that a policeman is known as a ‘grass’ — short for grasshopper which rhymes with ‘copper’.at grass, n.3
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I heard a coffee stall customer ask [...] for a ‘Once or twice of Sexton Blake, please’ and the proprietor said, ‘Will you have it in your German or the linen draper?’.at once-or-twice, n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I have also learned [...] that ‘The Duke of Kent’ means rent [...] ‘Charley Prescott’ waistcoat, ‘Woolwich Piers’ ears [...] that a policeman is known as a ‘grass’ — short for grasshopper which rhymes with ‘copper’.at Woolwich pier, n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 May 4/6: For two hears they will be able to play ducks and drakes with what remains [...] upon the direct taxpaper.at play ducks and drakes with (v.) under play, v.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 15 Jan. 7/3: A pickpocket, amongst the fraternity, is a ‘buzz bloke’ or a ‘whizzer’ .at buz bloak (n.) under buz, n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 15 Jan. 7/3: Car are ‘jam jars’ and those who steal them [...] ‘van-draggers’.at van dragger, n.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 15 Jan. 7/3: In the illegal drug traffic [...] ‘foolish powder’ is heroin.at foolish powder (n.) under foolish, adj.
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 15 Jan. 7/3: ‘Somebody has gone grass on me’ means thata ‘tea-leaf’s (thief’s) associate has given information to the ‘splits’ (detectives).at go (the) grass (on) (v.) under grass, n.3
Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 21 Apr. 7/3: Bristol firemen object to acting as midives [...] ‘We cannot afford to play ducks and drakes with human lives’.at play ducks and drakes with (v.) under play, v.
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