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Eve. Post 21 May 3/2: Rushing the Hokey-Pokey man [...] Anderson [...] was charged with having assaulted an Italian ice cream vendor.at hokey-pokey man (n.) under hokey-pokey, n.3
Eve. Post 21 May 3/2: Rushing the Hokey-Pokey man [...] Anderson [...] was charged with having assaulted an Italian ice cream vendor. Dundee Eve. Post 30 May 6/2: ‘Knight of the Blue Pencil’. The Duties of the Press Censor.at ...of the blue pencil (n.) under knight of the..., n.
Eve. Post 25 Jan. 2/2: The two men quarrelled, and both tumbled out on to the platform, and had a regular pounding match.at pounding match, n.
Eve. Post 17 July 6/7: The Chinese [...] have doctors for internal disease [...] and doctors for ‘mulligrubs’.at mulligrubs, n.
Eve. Post 4 Apr. 6/6: In his letters home he grumbles like a trooper about getting made a navvy.at like a trooper (adv.) under trooper, n.1
Eve. Post (Dundee) 30 Mar. 6/5: Now it was the Duke who played the rapid disappearing act.at do a/the disappearing act (v.) under disappearing act, n.
Dundee Eve. Post 21 June 3/3: The new censor [...] is to be the judge [...] of what the newspapers ought to publish and if he disapproves [...] it is to be blue pencilled.at blue-pencil, v.
Eve. Post 23 Jan. 4/3: The old ‘whip-the-cat’ days, when the tailor had to shoulder his sleeve-board and iron, and find room for himself to work in any place he might be put.at whip-the-cat, n.
Eve. Post 11 Jan. 6/5: Hould yer lyin’ tongue, and open your face at your peril!at open one’s face (v.) under face, n.
Eve. Post (Dundee) 25 Sept. 4/5: The Jewel-faker [...] the works are taken out of watches, and the precious stones re stripped from their mountings.at faker, n.
Dundee Eve. Post 16 Dec. 2/6: [advert] In these days of humbuggery and deception, the manufacturers of patent medicines [etc.].at humbuggery, n.
Eve. Post 31 Jan. 4/1: As a Glasgow writer wittily remarked, ‘We took cholera morbus to the jaw-box and washed him down the sink’.at jarbox, n.
Eve. Post 17 July 2/6: Izaih Meechan [...] pleaded not guilty of having behaved in a riotous manner. [...] It was also stated that accused was a typical case of the ‘West Port moocher’.at moocher, n.
Eve. Post (Dundee) 11 Apr. 2/5: Caught Top Heavy [...] Copper was apprehended in Tindal’s Wynd for drunkeness.at top-heavy (adj.) under top, n.
(ref. to 1870s) Dundee Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/3: When the sweet Sabbath bells ring out softly o’er Bow / An’ the old amen curler to pulpit he go.at amen-curler (n.) under amen, n.
Dundee Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6: They all dodge the Jet Autem, and sneak down the slade, / To appear arm-in-arm at the Monkey’s Parade.at autem jet (n.) under autem, n.
Dundee Eve. Post 25 Aug. 3/1: Shamrock Again Bested at the Star [...] Runs off with a good lead but finds a keen rival.at best, v.
Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/4: ‘Does yer maw know you’re aht?’ says the girl. ‘Not ’arf’ retorts the gay Lothario; and they hook on forthwith.at hook onto (v.) under hook, v.1
Eve. Post (Dundee) 24 Jan. 5/7: Belay your jawing tackle, snarled the officer.at jawing-tackle, n.
(ref. to 1870s) Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/3: They all dodge the Jet Autem, and sneak down the slade / To appear arm-in-arm at the Monkey’s Parade.at jet, n.1
Eve. Post 2 May 2/5: He was said to the leader of a gang of hooligans known as the Loggerhead Boys.at get/go/come to loggerheads (v.) under loggerhead, n.
(ref. to 1870s) Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/3: We find the Monkey’s Parade flourishing remarkably in the early seventies when the beauties of Bow and Poplar, all tricked out in their Sunday best, footed it bravely along the echoing pavement and back again till supper time.at monkey parade (n.) under monkey, n.
Dundee Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6: They all dodge the Jet Autem, and sneak down the slade, / To appear arm-in-arm at the Monkey’s Parade.at monkey parade (n.) under monkey, n.
(ref. to 1870s) Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/3: The London Monkeys have several special Sunday evening beats. From St Paul’s to Charing Cross is perhaps the most fashionable, and the noisiest.at monkey, n.
Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/4: He [...] thumps a lady twice his size in the back [...] jerks out ‘Wotcher!’ and winks the under-lid of his eye as only an errand boy can. ‘Does yer maw know you’re aht?’ says the girl. ‘Not ’arf’ retorts the gay Lothario; and they hook on forthwith.at does your mother know you’re out? under mother, n.
Dundee Eve. Post 4 Dec. 3/3: She was ramping mad with drink.at ramping, adv.
(con. 1870s) Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/3: The rum doxies tricked out in their betterest cloaks / Fix their pretty rum peepers on all the rum gloaks.at rum doxy (n.) under rum, adj.
(con. 1870s) Dundee Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/3: The rum doxies tricked out in their betterest cloaks / Fix their pretty rum peepers on all the rum gloaks.at rum gloak (n.) under rum, adj.
(con. 1870s) Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/3: The rum doxies tricked out in their betterest cloaks / Fix their pretty rum peepers on all the rum gloaks.at rum peeper (n.) under rum, adj.
Eve. Post 26 Nov. 6/4: He [...] thumps a lady twice his size in the back [...] jerks out ‘Wotcher!’ and winks the under-lid of his eye as only an errand boy can.at wotcher!, excl.
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