Lexicographical Neighbors of Coachies
Literary usage of Coachies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"That 's a way as most coachies 'ave got, you might think they wos chaps mad When
they twigged 'ow he spotted yours truly ? He give me the took pooty bad ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1860)
"PC 195, 225. cause and permit such coachies so to wait are guilty of a nuisance.”
3 amp. 226; and see 1 Russell, 4413. Nor is it necessary, in order to fix ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"I've parted so free to the coachies, and artfully put on the PUMP. (-.1696, and
GROSE, 1785) ; 'CHRISTENED WITH PUMP- WATER,' said of a red-faced boy or ..."
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