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Derby Dly Teleg. 12 Dec. 4/2: We shall try to se the American as he sees himself [...] ‘half horse and half alligator’ with a dash of earthquake.at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
Derby Dly Teleg. 12 Dec. 4/2: We shall try to se the American as he sees himself [...] ‘half horse and half alligator’ with a dash of earthquake. Derby Dly Teleg. 27 Sept. 4/2: Thanks to a recent sprain, [...] I had the ‘Buxton limp’ to perfection.at Buxton limp, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 12 Dec. 4/2: This, of course, is ‘high faluting’.at highfalutin, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 16 Dec. 2/5: The prisoner was dressed in the usual street nigger style with blackened face and banjo.at street nigger (n.) under nigger, n.1
Derby Dly Teleg. 1 Aug. 4/2: As defendant was rather ‘a gay young blade’, he advised him to try and be steadier in his conduct.at blade, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 5 July 2/4: The high Sheriff appeared [...] and did the honours of the occasion with an easym, well-bred assxurance that savoured not an atom of ‘shoddydom’.at shoddydom (n.) under shoddy, adj.
Derby Dly Teleg. 15 Oct. 4/4: ‘Hard hearted? Not a cent’s worth [...] he’s an uncommon dear little soft-roed bloater’.at soft-roed (adj.) under soft, adj.
Derby Dly Teleg. 11 May 1/5: Sound understandings, remarkably cheap, will wear the floor out, only at Crooks’.at understandings, n.1
Derby Dly Teleg. 20 Apr. 3/6: A rather ingenious system of swindling has been discovered by a Parisian knight of industry.at ...(the) industry under knight of the..., n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 16 Sept. 3/1: At the Royal Albert Docks the strike men [...] found the so-called black sheep at work. They declared they would not work with non-union men.at black sheep, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 24 Mar. 4/3: I gave it all up and refused to believe anything at all [...] we suffered ourselves to be thus ‘obfusticated’.at obfusticated, adj.
Derby Dly Teleg. 27 Sept. 4/1: The atrocious productions servved up hot and strong for the edification of the youth of this country. They are known in the trade as ‘Penny Bloods’.at blood, n.1
Derby Dly Teleg. 26 Mar. 3/6: The Boers [...] have all got horses to ride upon, not like us having to ride Chanks’s pony only.at ride shank’s mare (v.) under ride, v.
Derby Dly Teleg. 28 Dec. 4/3: I wil not have her [...] contaminate my girls with her foolish obstinacy and her fandangle notions.at fandangle, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 28 May 3/5: Why, the man’s enmity is so malignant that he gives every book agent [...] my address. and tells them I’m an easy mark!at easy mark (n.) under mark, n.1
Derby Dly Teleg. 12 Mar. 3: ‘I see Newlywed at the Country Club quite often since his baby came. I thought he was formly anchored to a home life.’ ‘He was but at the first squall he began to drag his anchor’.at drag one’s anchor (v.) under anchor, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 12 Dec. 4/3: We’ve done with Brother Boer, and have an urgent appointment with Johnny Chinaman.at John Chinaman, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 12 Oct. 4/4: This is the area sneak business, going on tip-toe and stealing the servant’s boots.at area-sneak, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 31 Aug. 4/5: The hustler is an American creation [...] a person totally incapable of leisure [...] the incarnation of haste and hurry [...] proud of the fact that he is overdriven, and overdrives himself.at hustler, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 6 Apr. 3/6: She was always jawing me and her mother jawed me too. She was always chipping me about being out of work.at chip, v.1
Derby Dly Teleg. 6 Apr. 3/6: She was always jawing me and her mother jawed me too. She was always chipping me about being out of work.at jaw, v.1
Derby Dly Teleg. 4 May 2/5: When he reached the people’s chamber he simmered down.at simmer, v.
Derby Dly Teleg. 29 Sept. 2/8: Hill said he had been clean broke and willingly accepted £25 for his blood.at clean broke (adj.) under clean, adv.
Derby Dly Teleg. 25 May 2/6: He [...] said he would ‘do a twelver for him in nine months’.at twelver, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 15 July 4/5: Bother it, old chap; I cawn’t go to the party. I have no collah-buttons.at bother, v.
Derby Dly Teleg. 5 Mar. n.p.: The other man [...] caught him by the shoulder. ‘Not this time, Flash Jack,’ he said. ‘Are you coming quietly?’.at flash jack (n.) under flash, adj.
Derby Dly Teleg. 28 May 2/7: ld Moneybags is afraid that [the] Prince he bought for his daughter is a bogus one.at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 29 Jan. 4/5: ‘Now then,’ shrieked Mrs Elias P. Hutchings, ‘Miss Smith, you fix on to that potato-faced one!’.at potato-face (n.) under potato, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 27 Nov. 4/5: Clerical Scorcher [...] Rev. Horace H. Wilford [...] was fined 10s. [...] for riding a motorcycle at a dangerous speed.at scorcher, n.
Derby Dly Teleg. 9 Mar. 2/7: [pic caption] Foolhead’s Duel.at foolhead (n.) under fool, n.
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