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Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 8 Apr.. 22/1: [T]hree hundred asparagus in a basket on his head [...] (which asparagus possibly Pierce Egan would have described [as] ‘three hundred of grass on the roof of his nut’).at grass, n.2
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 8 Apr.. 22/1: [T]hree hundred asparagus in a basket on his head [...] (which asparagus possibly Pierce Egan would have described [as] ‘three hundred of grass on the roof of his nut’). Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 30 May 3/3: Skinning [...] was as pleasant an operation to the backer who knew something, as skinning the lamb is to the modern bookmaker.at skin the lamb (v.) under skin, v.1
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 8 June 270/1: Mayhap they ‘worked the broads’ for thee, and thou wast taken in.at fake the broads (v.) under broads, n.
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 5 Apr. 18/3: They’re off There they go a gay silken-clad cluster, / [...] /And Simon Pure's making the pace a rare duster .at duster, n.3
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 5 Apr. 18/3: I’ve purchased a love of a bonnet.at love, n.
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 27 Sept. 7/2: The mutabilities of fashion which have acclimatised [...]‘Dog’s Nose,’ under the title of Nez-de-Chien in France.at dog’s nose, n.1
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 11 Apr. 6/3: [I]t is as a leg-piece [...] that the burletta is expected to succeed [...] When a short-skirted female danced a kind of breakdown some applause was elicited, but the attempts at vocalisation wei'e borne in solemn silence.at leg piece (n.) under leg, n.
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 25 Dec. 7/2: [He] appears to find something humorous in habitually speaking of bed as ‘the downy,’ of wine as ‘the rosy,’ and so forth.at downy, n.2
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 25 Dec. 7/2: [He] appears to find something humorous in habitually speaking of bed as ‘the downy,’ of wine as ‘the rosy,’ and so forth.at rosy, the, n.
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 5 July 17/3: Captain Nottage [...] returned [...] for the this season’s racing from the Mediterranean, after [...] skinning the lamb and spoiling the Egyptians.at skin the lamb (v.) under skin, v.1
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 25 Sept. 27/2: The shitepoke prefers running water.at shite-poke, n.
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 21 Nov. 10/3: The steed which has become to slow for a ‘sho’ful,’ as the hansom is termed [...] has to come down to ‘growler’ work.at growler, n.2
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 21 Nov. 10/3: The steed which has become to slow for a ‘sho’ful,’ as the hansom is termed [...] has to come down to ‘growler’ work.at shoful, n.
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 1 Dec . 18/2: Rat-face hated me so much.at rat face (n.) under rat, n.1
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 2 Dec. 24/1: ‘olling home to merry England’ is their shanty [...] be they Scowegian, Saurkraut, Dago or British.at sauerkraut, n.
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 19 Jan. 21/2: He ‘was so mean that he wouldn’t tell you the time of day if he had two watches’.at so mean... under mean, adj.
Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 31 Aug. 38/1: Another that manages to scrub along with a rough assortment of hounds.at scrub along (v.) under scrub, v.
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