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Dundee Courier 28 Jan. 3/3: An old trot with ne’er a tooth in her head.at old trot (n.) under old, adj.
Dundee Courier 28 Jan. 3/3: An old trot with ne’er a tooth in her head. Dundee Courier 3 Feb. 3/3: A Left-Handed Compliment. God bless your honour you saved my life [...] I served under you at the batle of Corunna and when you ran away I followed or else I should have been killed.at left-handed compliment (n.) under left-handed, adj.
Dundee Courier 15 Dec. 1/7: The company [...] has already gone to pigs and whistles.at go to pigs and whistles (v.) under pig, n.
Dundee Courier 5 Jan. 3/3: The King proved faithfless and left the poor Queen to wear the willow.at wear (the) willow (v.) under wear, v.1
Dundee Courier 12 Apr. 2/6: Mr Harney was lately a ‘flying stationer,’ and is now a violent mouthpiece of rabid democracy.at flying stationer (n.) under fly, v.
Dundee Courier 12 Apr. 2/6: Mr Cuffay, who is a London ’prick-the-louse’ [...] talks as familiarly of guns and daggers as if they were his needles and goose.at prick-(the-)louse (n.) under prick, v.2
Dundee Courier 12 Apr. 2/6: Mr Kidd [...] is an Arbroath ‘snob’ [...] he was pretty well known by the cognomen of ‘cobbler Sam’.at snob, n.
Dundee Courier 26 June 3/3: He saw it was all a mouthful of moonshine.at mouthful of moonshine (n.) under moonshine, n.
Dundee Courier 24 Sept. 2/5: Mr Young and his freiends may be beetle-headed blockheads and inaccessible to argument.at beetle-head (n.) under beetle, n.1
Dundee Courier 16 June 4/5: We know an inveterate Cockney who declares that London milk beats the country milk, and beats it ‘by many chalks’.at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
Dundee Courier 9 Feb. 1/7: If many of our elderly admirals went to sea, they would play ducks and drakes not with the enemies’ ships, but [...] with our own.at play ducks and drakes with (v.) under play, v.
Dundee Courier 13 Oct. 2/7: One of those ne’er-do-well, rag-tag, would-be sailors [...] got himself ‘grogified’.at groggified, adj.
Dundee Courier 15 Mar. 4/6: The indignant old lady very coolly emptied the jar of its contents into the jawbox.at jarbox, n.
Dundee Courier 14 Jan. 2/7: They are all flaming free traders [...] opposed to restrictions of all sorts, and sworn at Highgate — ‘to buy at the cheapest market and sell at the dearest’.at sworn at Highgate, phr.
Dundee Courier 20 Apr. 4/5: True as preaching. Our business folks ‘can stick a pin in there’.at stick a pin (in) there! (excl.) under stick, v.
Dundee Courier 2 July 4/4: The tendons of the listemner’s leg ache to kick such an agglomeration of Miss Nancified peacockical jackanapesery.at Miss-Nancyfied (adj.) under Miss Nancy, n.
Dundee Courier (Scot.) 23 July 2/5: All the ropes and cables [...] had been made at Bridport [...] it was proverbial in England to say of a man who was hanged that he ‘was stabbed with a Bridport dagger’.at stabbed with a Bridport dagger (adj.) under stab, v.
Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/2: The ‘gay lady’ of Brompton or Regent’s Park .at gay lady (n.) under gay, adj.
Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/2: This rinsing-out of a fashionable courtesan’s kennel generally brings very high prices for articles of vertue, or vice, put up for sale .at kennel, n.2
Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/2: It may be that ‘levanting’ is scarcely a proper term for the flight of a trull and her paramour [...] The levanter or transatlanticator had a slang name, ‘Skittles’.at levanting (n.) under levant, v.
Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/2: It may be that ‘levanting’ is scarcely a proper term for the flight of a trull and her paramour [...] The levanter or transatlanticator had a slang name, ‘Skittles’.at levanter, n.
Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/3: No stigma attaches to the young fellow who knows a ‘little party’ in Brompton [...] t is ‘the thing’ to know her .at party, n.1
Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/2: If Secession has anything of a fugitive meaning, she has become a ‘Secesh woman,’ She has run away [etc.] .at secesh, n.
Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/2: The Greeks are at present rubbing their hands at the thought that, by the ‘skedaddling’ of Otho, ‘there is only one Bavarian the less’ .at skedaddle, v.
Dundee Courier 26 Nov. 4/2: It may be that ‘levanting’ is scarcely a proper term for the flight of a trull and her paramour.at trull, n.
Dundee Courier 27 July 3/1: In the Federal army a man who is captured is described as being ‘snavelled’ or ‘gobbled’.at gobble, v.1
Dundee Courier 27 July 3/1: In the Federal army a man who is captured is described as being ‘snavelled’ or ‘gobbled’.at snavel, v.
Dundee Courier 14 May 3/4: A boy, sixteen years of age, who [...] had been living in a gay house in most extravagant manner, was charged [etc.].at gay house (n.) under gay, adj.
Dundee Courier 17 Dec. 4/4: Horses [...] in plain harness, cleaned and oiled ‘to the nines’.at up to the nines, phr.
Dundee Courier 15 July 2/7: The letter of your correspondent ‘Dry Stick’ is a very impertinent billet.at dry stick (n.) under stick, n.
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