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S. Wales Echo 17 Dec. 8: The elected drowned their regrets in odky [sic, i.e. vodka] and becoming pot valiant, attacked and demolished the shops.at pot-valiant (adj.) under pot, n.1
S. Wales Echo 17 Dec. 8: The elected drowned their regrets in odky [sic, i.e. vodka] and becoming pot valiant, attacked and demolished the shops. South Wales Echo 13 May 4/4: Slippery Sam and Black Eli were arrested for fighting.at slippery sam, n.
S. Wales Echo 12 July 2/5: We were ordered to bundle up our clothes [...] so they could be [...] fumigated. Some of us protested [against] the dirty, lousy-looking rapscallions that the Spanish Government had told off for this duty [...] Our surmises were not far out for we all learned to play the Scotch fiddle after our clothes were returned.at Scotch fiddle (n.) under Scotch, adj.
S. Wales Echo 23 Apr. 3/4: Prisoner (an elderly man) pointed to his dress and said smilingly that he was a button short. Mr Wansborough (severely): I should say you had lost all your buttons., It is a scandalous thing [etc].at lose a button (v.) under button, n.1
S. Wales Echo 16 Apr. 4/1: Mother had put on her own silk dress and father had donned his Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.at Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (n.) under Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
S. Wales Echo 21 Mar. 2/7: The men on Sunday had a good ‘sea pie’ for dinner.at sea pie (n.) under sea, n.
South Wales Echo 10 Oct. 4/1: She must despise me [...] Such a dumb-head as I must seem to her.at dumbhead (n.) under dumb, adj.1
South Wales Echo 31 Oct. 4/4: ‘Think I’m a shitepoke an’ live in the crick, do you?’.at shite-poke, n.
S. Wales Echo 7 Aug. 4/5: ‘Now you’re talking, mister’.at now you’re talking under talk, v.
South Wales Echo 31 Oct. 4/4: ‘Hello, over there!’‘Hello, yourself!’ was the answer.at — yourself, phr.
S. Wales Echo 3 Apr. 4/2: The crew [...] had been sworn at fore and aft, and called ‘Portagee dogs’.at Portagee, n.
S. Wales Echo 4 May 4/3: ‘Its how to scrub along and git a libbin’ in dis worl’ what’s boderin’ me’.at scrub along (v.) under scrub, v.
S. Wales Echo 28 May 4/1: ‘Are you going to give a “small and early” — the fifth “small and early” this season?’.at small and early (n.) under small, adj.
S. Wales Echo 8 Dec. 4/1: ‘Did you ever see sich a lot. By Crimey, they might be bloomin’ dooks, they might’.at criminy!, excl.
S. Wales Echo 8 Dec. 4/2: Skivvy produced a dark lantern [...] ‘Now.’ he said, ‘I’m to ’ave the glim in one ’and an’ the barker in t’other’.at glim, n.
S. Wales Echo 8 Dec. 4/1: ‘It’s no go this journey, and the sooner we’re o-p-h the better’.at o.p.h., adv.
S. Wales Echo 8 Dec. 4/1: ‘Oh, Crimey [...] didn’t it come off splendacious!’.at splendacious, adj.
South Wales Echo 1 Aug. 2/6: He must have penned the chapter after [...] a walk into Monmouth and a Sunday ‘swizzle’.at swizzle, n.1
South Wales Echo 1 Aug. 2/6: If you want to swizzle on the Sabbath you must buy your own drink.at swizzle, v.1
South Wales Echo 26 Aug. 4/4: He tried to act the hog and treat me like a dog, but I soon showed him he was playing horse with the wrong man when he monkeyed with me.at act the hog, v.
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