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Memoirs of a Griffin in Asiatic Jrnl Jan. 48: ‘I don’t sport gold mohurs; say five chicks, and it’s a bet.’ [footnote] Chick or sequin, four rupees.at chick, n.3
Memoirs of a Griffin in Asiatic Jrnl Jan. 48: ‘I don’t sport gold mohurs; say five chicks, and it’s a bet.’ [footnote] Chick or sequin, four rupees. Memoirs of a Griffin I 250: His library, not quite so large as the Bodleian [...] but containing, nevertheless, some very good cut-and-come-again sort of books.at cut-and-come-again, adj.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 20: Ensigns Gorman and O’Shaughnessy, two fine ‘animals,’ that had recently been caught in the mountains of Kerry.at animal, n.1
Memoirs of a Griffin II 61: I’m off to-morrow — please the pigs.at an’t please the pigs, phr.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 272: I must now attend to duty, or expose myself to be considered one of what are cantly denominated ‘John Company’s hard bargains’.at His Majesty’s bad bargain, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin II 79: I had the supreme felicity of bagging something more respectable than paddy-birds.at bag, v.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 244: [He] said something [...] in which the word buckshish (presents) was remarkably distinct.at baksheesh, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 195: ‘Bearah Bundook laou juldee! bring up the rifle quickly’.at bandook, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 50: ‘Too much dam rogue, this Madras; plenty bad beebee [...] ver much cheatee gentlemen’.at bebee, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin II 213: ‘Oh! then, by dad, you must forgive me’.at bedad!, excl.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 279: ‘The firelock [...] alw’ys goes by the denomy-nation of Brown Bess’.at brown bess, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 197: ‘After a good many poor devils have been carried off, blacky’s apathy is a little disturbed’.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
Memoirs of a Griffin II 138: The good-humoured Scotchman [...] presented him with a glass of grog, to allay the fury of the ‘black dog’ as he termed it.at black dog, n.2
Memoirs of a Griffin I 108: ‘Stuff! none of your blarney’.at blarney, n.1
Memoirs of a Griffin II 53: She was neither an envious old maid, nor a spiteful old maid, nor an intensely blue old maid, nor a canting old maid.at blue, adj.4
Memoirs of a Griffin II 194: A glass or two of champagne is your grand specific for giving the blue devils their quietus.at blue devils, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 220: His rifle [...] was a piece of the kind commonly called in India a ‘bone-breaker,’ and carrying a weighty ball, eight or ten to the pound.at bone-breaker (n.) under bone, n.1
Memoirs of a Griffin II 144: Others [...] dropped off to bed, though abused by the peep-o’-day boys for our recreant qualities.at peep o’ day boy, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin II 97: ‘Pass the bottle [...] fill up a bumper; come, a brimmer; no daylight, Sir’.at brimmer, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin II 226: The Brummagem swords of the troopers would make little or no impression on the quilted jackets and vests of the Mahrattas.at Brummagem, adj.
Memoirs of a Griffin II 268: I doubt if, in the present day, such freaks would be tolerated in a commandant as those in which our old buffer was continually wont to indulge.at buffer, n.3
Memoirs of a Griffin II 97: ‘Pass the bottle [...] fill up a bumper; come, a brimmer; no daylight, Sir’.at bumper, n.2
Memoirs of a Griffin I 186: The guests for the burra khana now began to arrive. Gigs, carriages, and palankeens, flambeaux, dancing lights [etc].at burra khana (n.) under burra, adj.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 166: The mother of the amiable widow (a nonpareil grafted on a crab).at crab, n.2
Memoirs of a Griffin II 64: The dandies, or boatmen, now drew on board the seree, or plank connecting us with the shore.at dandy, n.1
Memoirs of a Griffin I 75: The colonel [...] having the fear of Davy’s Locker before his eyes.at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin II 97: ‘Pass the bottle [...] fill up a bumper; come, a brimmer; no daylight, Sir’.at daylight, n.1
Memoirs of a Griffin II 10: ‘What did you give for him? [i.e. a horse] ‘Two hundred and fifty dibs’ (i.e. rupees).at dib, n.
Memoirs of a Griffin I 272: I, being a stranger, was inefficient and dummy.at dummy, n.1
Memoirs of a Griffin I 29: The affair was becoming serious — the colonel was a known fire-eater.at fire-eater, n.
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