Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Beware
subs. (theatrical).—See quot.
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1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, III, 149. We strolling actors, a breakfast, dinner, tea, supper, all of them ‘numyare’; and all beer, brandy, water, or soup, are BEWARE.
