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Dublin Eve. Mail 27 Dec. 3/3: A little bog Latin, commonly called Priest’s Latin.at bog Latin, n.
Dublin Eve. Mail 27 Dec. 3/3: A little bog Latin, commonly called Priest’s Latin. Dublin Eve. Mail 7 July n.p.: Friday evening Tom Belcher’s ‘Castle,’ in Holborn, was crowded to excess by friends of all kinds, who gratfied their thirsty souls [...] from an humble daffy, to a bottle of claret.at daffy, n.1
Dublin Eve. Mail 1 May 1/5: To the highest bidder [...] Monegleigh, including the Bog-house and Garden thereof.at boghouse, n.
Dublin Eve. Mail 12 Sept. 3/3: A somewhat decenter show of Lords [...] A few less rubbishy Baronets.at rubbish, adj.
Dublin Eve. Mail 7 Sept. 4/2: Most of the ‘couple-beggars’ that has fallen under his observation were degraded Roman Catholics.at couple-beggar, n.
Dublin Eve. Mail 5 June 2/1: Alexander Kimins, grave-digger [...] Thoas McCaul, bang-beggar, Wm Paterson, corporation constable.at bang-beggar (n.) under bang, v.1
Dublin Eve. Mail 10 June 3/1: Dr sadleir may [...] pronounce them to be man and wife together, and so might any buckle-beggar in the land.at buckle-beggar (n.) under buckle, v.
Dublin Eve. Mail 6 Aug. 4/3: Mr Fagan [...] seized Mr Callaghan’s summer jerry. Mr Callaghan roared [...] ‘don’t break my hat, I tell you!’ .at jerry, n.4
Dublin Eve. Mail 6 Aug. 4/3: ‘You lie, you old stitch-louse’.at stitch-louse (n.) under stitch, n.1
Dublin Eve. Mail 19 Mar. 3/2: He engaged a car-man [...] to drive to a certain hotel. [...] Here the ‘chiseller’ adopted the name of ‘Sir Charles Henry Bentinck’.at chiseler, n.
Dublin Eve. Mail 19 Mar. 3/2: Caution to the Public — A Fleecer [...] citizens to be on their guard against one of the most accomplished and successful swindlers.at fleecer, n.
Dublin Eve. Mail 18 May 2/1: When Frenchy tyranny becomes insupportable, we shall find our Cromwell.at Frenchie, adj.
Dublin Eve. Mail 11 May 3/2: He certainly must be more than ‘blue mouldy for want of a beating’ who would now think Ireland worth one blow.at blue mouldy (adj.) under mouldy, adj.
Dublin Eve. Mail 2 Dec. 4/6: [in fig. sense] We have a strong opinion that Cardinal Wiseman and Lord John Russell are playing booty.at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
Dublin Eve. Mail 9 Dec. 3/3: ‘Why should boys, when grown up to manhood, lay aside the honoured name of ‘Father,’ and substitute in its place that of ‘Governor’.at governor, n.
Dublin Eve. Mail 30 Aug. 4/4: [from Times (London)] The musket-rifle (improperly called ‘Minie’) being constructed on more scientific principles, ‘fairly beats poor Bess out of the field’ .at bess, n.2
Dublin Eve. Mail 24 Dec. 2/2: ‘The game of Blind Hookey’ — it cannot be called anything else — still continues. The signs of the game [...] are most amusing [...] and the writhing of the radical press as the bait ways backwards and forward, are ludicrous.at blind hookey (n.) under blind, adj.1
Dublin Eve. Mail 16 Feb. 2/5: A good boot-eater, who impedes the course of justice, has his reward.at boot-eater (n.) under boot, n.2
Dublin Eve. Mail 26 May 2/4: Is there [...] a single politician of any school [...] who would give a brass farthing to decide the momentoes question.at brass farthing (n.) under brass, adj.1
Dublin Eve. Mail 21 Aug. 2/4: ‘What is the meaning of a “backbiter”,’ said a rev. gentleman [...] ‘Pr’haps it be a flea’.at backbiter (n.) under back, n.1
Dublin Eve. Mail 16 Oct. 2/4: Madame Eugenie and the General, it seems, ‘understood each other’ better than Peter Burroughs and the old trot did at Kilkenny.at old trot (n.) under old, adj.
Dublin Eve. Mail 26 Nov. 2/4: If they close uypon such a bargain, they are fit for nothing else than to be bought and sold like their own fat-brained wethers.at fat-headed, adj.
Dublin Eve. Mail 16 Nov. 4/2: When the day comes [...] may his Eminence cut up fat.at cut up fat (v.) under cut up, v.2
Dublin Eve. Mail 31 Aug. 3: Practical men met him in a practical way; he showed them his cards; he was asked ‘Will you take all risk?’ Yes.at show one’s cards (v.) under show, v.
Dublin Eve. Mail 7 Nov. 1/6: A London theatre [...] to conclude with ‘Horsemonger Lane Joe; or the child of the Hempen Widow’.at hempen widow (n.) under hempen, adj.
Dublin Eve. Mail 8 Sept. 4/2: The Irish and the Negroes in Cincinnati [...] The most serious disturbance was between the negro and irish residents of Bucktown.at bucktown (n.) under buck, n.1
Dublin Eve. Mail 4 Dec. 1/6: As sure as mutton is mutton [...] to London it will go.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Dublin Eve. Mail 4 May 4/3: It is none of your God damned business.at god-damned, adj.
Dublin Eve. Mail 6 Oct. 3/5: The work of these ‘bushwhackers,’ ‘jayhawkers,’ and ‘red legs’ is not likely to come to an end before these once flourishing Western counties are utterly laid waste.at jayhawker, n.
Dublin Eve. Mail 6 Oct. 3/5: The work of these ‘bushwhackers,’ ‘jayhawkers,’ and ‘red legs’ is not likely to come to an end before these once flourishing Western counties are utterly laid waste.at redleg (n.) under red, adj.
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