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Peregrine Pultuney II 56: He hailed a very respectable looking stout old Baboo.at babu, n.
Peregrine Pultuney II 56: He hailed a very respectable looking stout old Baboo. Peregrine Pultuney II 21: The inhabitants of Fultah [...] clamoured very loudly for buxees.at baksheesh, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 228: ‘It was a bang-up party indeed — upon my soul a bang-up party’.at bang-up, adj.
Peregrine Pultuney II 54: Pultuney determined [...] that he would ‘go and beat up his old aunt’.at beat up, v.
Peregrine Pultuney I 209: ‘The long scoundrel deserves to be kicked out of the ship as a sharper and a black leg, which he is’.at blackleg, n.1
Peregrine Pultuney I 122: ‘I turn round [...] thirty, forty men come — bobberee — poor man — what do?’.at bobbery, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 102: Mrs Potts a burra beebee — bless my soul, thinkl of that.at burra beebee (n.) under burra, adj.
Peregrine Pultuney II 114: He lounged about in his easy chair, smoked his chillum.at chillum, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 41: [A] young import from the Emerald Isle who made a mystical allustion to potheen, and apostrophized some favourite animal, which he called [...] ‘the creetur’.at creature, the, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 258: ‘Nut-cut bad word, very. You Englese say ruska [i.e. rascal] — bad man’.at nut-cut, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 108: Fagging at Greek and Latin all his life.at fag, v.2
Peregrine Pultuney I 111: ‘Ha! ha!’ returned Mr. Havethelacks, chuckling, ‘don’t you know Nicholas Fitz-simon, what a precious griff you must be!’.at griffin, n.1
Peregrine Pultuney I 228: Very silly and griffish we were too, for we bought Burgundy, Champaign, and Curacao, (things quite unbecoming a subaltern) and took it into our heads to give tiffin parties.at griffish (adj.) under griffin, n.1
Peregrine Pultuney II 38: Peregrine Pultuney observed [...] that pinaka paunee meant drinking water, whilst qui hai was Bengallee for a waiter.at qui-hi, n.
Peregrine Pultuney II 84: ‘I’m afraid he is in for it [...] A hop from the twig [...] He had got one of those horrid fevers, which I am afraid will carry him off’.at hop the twig, v.
Peregrine Pultuney I 213: The best thing he could do was [...] ‘turn in’ as fast as he could.at turn in, v.1
Peregrine Pultuney I 219: ‘It will be horrid stupid at one of the boarding houses [...] with a score of old Indians with us — ’ ‘To call us griffs’.at Indian, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 292: ‘It is all your fault Harrison it is,’ pouted the damsel. ‘I wish you were at Jericho’.at go to Jericho (till your beard be grown)! (excl.) under Jericho, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 35: ‘By the living jingo [...] if Mother Radix were to see you’ .at jingo!, excl.
Peregrine Pultuney I 126: ‘One morning I go to master [...] say sahib — master not give juwab [...] master quite dead’.at juwab, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 290: ‘He’s always for having a pillow dance! I never seed such a larker in my life’.at larker, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 289: ‘Lauk, my dear, that I will,’ rejoined the old lady.at lawks!, excl.
Peregrine Pultuney I 228: ‘I can’t stand all this lushing at nights; it makes one’s hand shake’.at lushing, n.
Peregrine Pultuney II 5: He was from head to foot a thorough Orientalist [...] always talking about the ‘Upper Provinces’ and the ‘Mofussil’.at Mofussil, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 120: ‘Somebody have been roasting that there nigger — and blackey be inclined to turn restive.’ [...] Perergine [...] observed at the same time a fine-looking man with an Indian complexion, jet black moustaches, a white turban, and oriental attire.at nigger, n.1
Peregrine Pultuney I 87: In spite of of his weight and his butting he got one-two in that part of the face which lies between the nose and the mouth.at one-two, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 44: Half a bottle of bad sherry, and his share of the punch, [...] had rather dimmed his reminiscent faculties and [...] he found himself a little ‘out’.at out, adv.1
Peregrine Pultuney I 126: ‘Doctor sahib poggle, gudder — fool master say in England’.at poggle, n.
Peregrine Pultuney I 145: [He was] half inclined to roast a greenhorn, as he very sagaciously judged Peregrine to be.at roast, v.
Peregrine Pultuney II 28: He put to flight a small detachment of Rum Johnnies, who were [...] offering their services most obsequiously to the griffins, fawning and salaaming with all their might. [footnote: Rum Johnnies are low native servants out of place, who speak a little English, frequent the ghauts of Calcutta, and prey on the griffins].at rumjohnny, n.
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