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Eve. Teleg. (Angus, Scot.) 23 Nov. n.p.: Some of the country people [...] got a little ‘elevated’.at elevated, adj.
Eve. Teleg. (Angus, Scot.) 23 Nov. n.p.: Some of the country people [...] got a little ‘elevated’. Dundee Eve. Teleg. 24 Apr. 2/2: [He] advises profane cirtiics of the Confession to go to Jericho till their beards be grown.at go to Jericho (till your beard be grown)! (excl.) under Jericho, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 20 Oct. 3/2: The knight of the pencil turned [...] and, raising his hat, said, ‘I never bet with ladies’.at ...the pencil under knight of the..., n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 8 Apr. 4/3: A young man [...] hit him a belt back of the ear, fetched him another on the nose [etc.].at belt, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 13 May 4/3: Oh! Johnny Bull, My Joe!at John Bull, n.1
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 11 Jan. 2/6: Nothing can disturb their equanimity so long as there is no interference with the Suez Ditch.at Ditch, the, n.1
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 24 Sept. 2/5: Statistics of the Chinaman in San Francisco [...] (16) It is unhealthy to meet a highbinder after dark [...] (18) Every Chinaman is a highbinder.at highbinder, n.
Eve. Teleg. 25 Dec. 3/3: A Valiant Knight of the Thimble [...] William Sansom, tailor [...] was charged with assaulting a waiter.at ...the thimble under knight of the..., n.
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 11 Mar. 4/1: The Earl; of Rochester is said to have exclaimed, ‘Ods fish, Lory, your chaplain must be a bishop’.at od’s fish! (excl.) under ods, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 8 Apr. 4/3: A young man [...] hit him a belt back of the ear, fetched him another on the nose, and planted such a kick in his suburbs as to send him headlong over an ash heap.at suburbs, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 4 Sept. 2/2: A new device for the botherment of lovers was operated successfully on a train by a heartless young man at Virginia City, Nevada.at botherment, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 3 Jan. 4/3: There since lived a cracky old carle in Strathmore [etc.].at cracky, adj.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 2 Apr. 4/3: [The photographer] employs a [...] pretty girl to talk ‘taffy’ [...] into the other ear of the sitter.at taffy, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 9 Dec. 4/2: A fellow threw a loaf of bread at her from the peanut gallery.at peanut gallery (n.) under peanut, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 20 June 2/2: [from US press] In the fashion plates the bean-pole variety of young lady has exclusive possession [...] Fat girls are not worth dressing.at beanpole, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 8 Aug. 4/3: An old Scottish dame, rather too fond of ‘the mountain dew’, was one day ‘unco drothie’ and without funds.at mountain dew, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 8 July 2/2: Dusty Bob [...] was always a favourite character of George [Cruikshank].at dusty bob (n.) under dusty, adj.1
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 15 Feb. 4/3: ‘As fer the gerls [...] I think they must be sillikins’.at sillikin, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 27 Mar. 2/2: His wig had tumbled off and his bald head bobbed gently up and down. Tilbury and a schoolfellow were playing about with pea-shooters. [...] Tilbury shouted to his friend, ‘Let’s have a shot at old Bladder-of lard’.at bladder of lard, n.1
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 17 Mar. 2/2: This ghostly adviser is a potato-faced jovial irishman.at potato-face (n.) under potato, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 10 Feb. 4/3: The story had got there before me and troth, the boys enjoyed it [But] I was not in the least shirted, no matter what they said.at shirty, adj.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 27 Sept. 3/6: A very trite saying was rather vigorously put in one of the ‘agony’ advertisements yesterday.at agony column (n.) under agony, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 26 Sept. 4/2: ‘All in your eye’ is a common jocose remark.at all my eye, phr.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 23 Apr. 4/1: Such a dull, dingy, beef-witted assemblage I never saw equalled.at beef-witted (adj.) under beef, n.1
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 22 Dec. 2/2: To be known all ovewr a district as ‘Billy-born-drunk’ is, indeed, a misfortune.at billy born drunk, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 26 May 4/2: The Dandy and the ‘Bone Crusher’ [...] ‘Take care, Captain [...] it’s the Birmingham Bone-Crusher!’.at bonecrusher, n.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 1 June 2/4: Straw hats became the rage, and the ‘skimming-dish brimmer’ went through several stages of revision. It was turned up on the left [...] wsorn low on the forehead [etc].at brimmer, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 11 Aug. 4/3: It shall be just as my own little lovey-dovey lifey-wifer says.at lovey-dovey, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 4 June 30/3: If that does not cure you I’ll eat my head.at eat one’s head (v.) under eat, v.
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 3 Apr. 2/5: We may talk of our money in a score of ways [...] ‘the actual,’ ‘the wherewithal,’ ‘beans,’ ‘blunt,’ [...] ‘shot,’ ‘feathers’.at beans, n.1
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