A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled: Slang and Its Analogues |
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Common terms and phrases
American applied ball beat beer beggar blow blue Buffle bully called cant cards catch cheat Christ's Hospital clothes coat coin colloquial Cotgrave Delirium tremens devil dram dress drink drunk English synonyms Eton College fellow Felsted School fool Foot formerly give Grose Halliwell hand hang hard Harrow School head hence highwayman horse Hotten intj Jack kick knock Leys School liquor Matsell ment mouth night nose one's oneself orig person Phrases pickpocket piece play pocket prison prostitute queer Regiment Rhino round School Screwed skin slang smart sneak spec specifically squailing steal stick street subs swindle tail tailor talk term of contempt thief thieves thing thrash tion trick turn Tyburn verb walk wanton Westminster School whence whisky Winchester College woman word
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Page 245 - 1874), We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too !]. Hence Jingoism, the theory and practice of the Jingoes.
Page 13 - 1 Cor. xv. 9, For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle. The list is now arranged alphabetically and in classes.
Page 131 - The gallows. [A corruption of Theodoric, the name of the public hangman at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries.] Now the name of an apparatus, resembling a crane. Also
Page 417 - paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging ; but they had to perform some menial services from which they have long been relieved. They swept the court ; they carved up the dinner to the fellows' table, and changed the plates, and poured out the ale of the rulers of the society
Page 323 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.
Page 308 - boys to cut purses : two devices were hung up, one was a pocket, and another was a purse, the pocket had in it certain counters, and was hung about with hawk's bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring bell ; the purse had silver in it, and he that could take out a counter, without
Page 102 - Love may transform me to an oyster ; but I'll take my oath on it, till he hath made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool.
Page 323 - and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. " What ! no soap Î " So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber, and there were present the
Page 54 - blue drugget gown or body with ample skirts to it, a yellow vest underneath in winter time, small clothes of Russia duck, worsted yellow stockings, a leathern girdle, and a little black worsted cap, usually carried in the hand, being the complete costume ; this was the ordinary dress of children in humble life
Page 324 - Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button on top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heel of their boots