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Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 20: He didn’t care for [...] the recapitulation of Biter and Co’s bill.at biter, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 20: He didn’t care for [...] the recapitulation of Biter and Co’s bill. Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 57: The great spread of black-leg-ism making it impossible to buy all backbiters off, Johnny adopted the anti-turf, anti-betting tone.at blackleg, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 182: An unfortunate Boniface, who had got into the quagmire of the Insolvent Court.at boniface, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 19: Captain Languisher looked sweet on Miss Snowball, and miss Nettleworth hung on Mr de Breezey’s every word.at breezy, adj.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 305: The Jug, having buzzed the bottle, gradually sunk into a profound sleep.at buzz, v.2
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 20: [T]he saucy little hat, so different to the coal-scuttle bonnets of former days.at coal-scuttle (n.) under coal, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 89: [Drinks] in their various forms of hot with and cold without [and] cold with and hot without.at cold without (n.) under cold, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 90: ‘The deuce!’ exclaimed the Baronet.at deuce, the, phr.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 55: Any one, however — any one on the sunny side of thirty — might be fairly excused for being duped by Johnny O’Dicey [...] the inexperienced would think he was the noblest-hearted fellow [...] a victim instead of a shark.at dicey, adj.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 45: ‘Candles! [...] is then the cry [and] our visitors are thrown on Baccoman’s scanty stock of dips.at dip, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 88: There are a good many fellows there that he knows [...] legs, levanters and lame ducks of all sorts.at lame duck, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 282: Most people are Dutch-auctioned occasionally — put up at their highest and run down to their lowest point.at Dutch auction (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 211: The slang cry of ‘There you go with your eye out!’ occurred to his recollection.at there you go with your eye out under eye, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 38: Hitherto the fatties have had it all their own way.at fatty, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 100: ‘No — no — no more [i.e. wine] for me’ [...] ‘O fiddle!’ replied O’Dicey.at fiddledeedee!, excl.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 85: A torrent of rain [...] half drenched the fumblers ere they could unfurl their patent umbrellas.at fumbler, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 132: ‘Sivin and four’s elivin and sivinty-sivin’s eighty-eight, on the gammon and spinach tack’.at gammon and spinach (n.) under gammon, n.2
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 26: Neptune Place, where the great guns of the world [...] congregate.at gun, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 43: It is a hard thing for a young lady to find herself a ‘guy’ in the midst of splendour.at guy, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 99: Twice round, with liberal helpings, makes a good hole in an inn Magnum.at make a hole in (v.) under hole, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 87: ‘Jeames’ jumps nimbly down to unfold the door-steps.at jeames, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 11: The outward bound Jehu has to get his horse by the head.at jehu, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 140: Jock would [...] imprecate the ‘dighted’ body, [...] wishing him at ‘Jericho beyond Jordan,’ or some other ditsant place.at Jericho, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 105: ‘Bless you, Wanless is one of the largest men in the city of London [...] I’m dashed if I had half his means’.at large, adj.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 149: Will Ranger, the inder keeper’s voice, who has jyst shook a bag fox, a regular leadenhall gentleman.at Leadenhall gentleman (n.) under Leadenhall, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 88: There are a good many fellows there that he knows [...] legs, levanters and lame ducks of all sorts.at levanter, n.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 236: ‘I can’t lush as I used to do [...] — can’t lush as I used to’ [...] giving a melancholy shake of his head, as if his inability to drink was a national calamity.at lush, v.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 303: The Hydropathic gentleman used to sluice his patients in the bed-room above, and a continuous flow of drippings had expanded into a large map of Europe on the ceiling.at map of Ireland (n.) under map of..., phr.
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 267: It serves as a landmark [...] to tinkers, muggers, pic-nick-ers [...] farmers and wayfarers of all sorts.at mugger, n.1
Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 38: Miss Curling’s maid thinking Rosa had ‘got plenty of sail on hooiver,’ while Mrs Broadmeadow’s pin-sticker rather stands up or quality.at pin-sticker (n.) under pin, n.
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