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Common terms and phrases
Abbr anglicized Anglo-Indian Anglo-Indian coll arse Australian coll ball beef beer blood blow blue Bootham School boots Bowen bread brown buck buff bully bung butter Captain chalk Charley cheat cheese Christ's Hospital chuck Cockney coll verging corruption costermonger cricket Cuthbert Bede Dickens drink drunk early 19 English Etymology Ex Hindustani ex U.S. fellow female pudend harlot Hence Hindustani horse jocular coll late C.18-early London low coll mainly Mayhew military nautical coll Ned Ward nickname one's oneself orig Oxford Oxford er P.G.Wodehouse Parlary pejorative Perhaps ex person phrase pidgin Pierce Egan prob proletarian public-house pugilistic rare recorded resp rhyming Romany S.E. Ex S.E. sense School Scott Scottish Shakespeare Shelta ship Slang slightly Smollett soon S.E. street tailors term Thackeray theatrical variant verging on S.E. Ware Whence Winchester College woman word