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Wanted. World English Historical Dictionary

Wanted. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Wanted ppl. adj. (euphemistic).—‘WANTED’ by the police. (GROSE).

1   1885.  Daily Telegraph, 19 Dec. Two men supposed to be on board of a vessel which was loading at Hebburn Coal staithes, were WANTED in Germany for murder.

2   1883.  GREENWOOD, Tag, Rag, & Co., ‘In Quiggles’s Kitchen.’ The police, on their part, caused it to be understood that until he was really ‘WANTED’ on a specific charge, a thief should in no case be interfered with.

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