1 Jumping the budget was a form of irregular marriage tinkers were said to practice. The budget could be a broomstick or the tinker’s tool kit, which was sometimes known as a budget.
1 A strip of rawhide, sometimes sharkskin, which was often used to smooth wood before the invention of sandpaper.
1 “A drappie o’ the Real Mackay” from the poem, The Deil’s Halloween by Young Glasgow, published in 1856. The catchphrase “the real McCoy” may have derived from that saying.
1 A show for entertainment, usually but not exclusively, viewed through a small hole in a box. Dr Musgrave may have been making an oblique reference to a body in a coffin.
1 Flashtail – a p********e. They could also be called ladybirds.
2 Swaddie – 19th - century slang for a British soldier. The word might have come from “
