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[US] Poughkeepsie Jrnl (NY) 13 Apr. 1/5: [Y]ou may advise Doctor Bolus Doctor Ulna [...] and the whole raft of them [...] to pack up their duds and bolt off.
at raft, n.1
[US] Poughkeepsie Jrnl (NY) 5 May 1/5: The owld fellow worked away as busy as a nailer [sic].
at busy as a nailor (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
[US] Poughkeepsie Jrnl (NY) 5 May 1/5: The owld fellow worked away as busy as a nailer [sic].
at old fellow, n.
[US] Poughkeepsie Jrnl (NY) 5 May 1/5: By gor [...] he seen the large hape o’ guineas [...] growin’ littler and littler’.
at gor!, excl.
[US] Poughkeepsie Jrnl (NY) 5 May 1/5: ‘You must fill me that room,’ says he, pointin’ into a murtherin’ big room.
at murdering, adj.
[US] Poughkeepsie Jrnl (NY) 5 May 1/6: The colonel thought he had nicked ould Nick at last, and wint to bed quite asy in his mind.
at nick, v.1
[US] Poughkeepsie Jrnl (NY) 5 May 1/5: ‘Whist! whist! you thievin’ rogue,’ says the devil.
at whisht!, excl.
[US] Poughkeepsie Jrnl (NY) 20 Oct. 3A/2: Vocabulary for Squares. Pos Atomic . . . Terrific.
at atomic, adj.
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