1854. DICKENS, Hard Times, I. vi. If you want to cheek us, pay your OCHRE at the doors, and take it out.
1880. Punchs Almanack, 12.
Lor! if Id the OCHRE, make no doubt | |
I could cut no end of big pots out. | |
Call me cad? When moneys in the game, | |
Cad and swell are pooty much the same. |
1890. Punch, 22 Feb. If I was flush of the OCHRE, I tell yer Id make the thing hum.