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Breezie Langton choose

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[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 88: ‘Take a weed’ [...] ‘Delighted to [...] try your baccy’.
at bacca, n.
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 57: ‘It’s human nature, the biters grin and the bitten whine’.
at biter, n.1
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 53: [H]e rattled him home the last quarter of a mile a burster.
at burster, n.1
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 146: The Novice had been backed for a good bit of money [...] though the rider didn't look quite like business.
at business, n.
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 138: ‘Dal it all, but he can go’.
at damn it!, excl.
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 17: ‘I do so want to see you do the pathetic’.
at do the — (v.) under do, v.1
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 8: It was, perhaps, Laura’s too ready tongue [...] that had obtained for them [i.e. two sisters] the reputation of being ‘fast’.
at fast, adj.1
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 8: They [...] sang a little, drew a little, batedhhumbug, had lots to say for themselves, and [...] had but short patience with stupid partners, and none at all with ‘bad goers,’.
at bad goer (n.) under goer, n.
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 36: ‘[H]e’s lost his heart to a widow in “the grazing way”’.
at grass widow, n.
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 92: ‘The youngest griffin there could have given me two stone and won in a canter’.
at griffin, n.1
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 83: ‘There’s the original tenner I offered you; no jibbing now’.
at jib, v.2
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 24: ‘[T]hat big brown horse of his, The Slasher he calls it, is a clipper’.
at slasher, n.1
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 79: ‘Never mind raking up the story of the smash’.
at smash, n.1
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 97: ‘Are you still as “spoony” on that beautiful ballad as you were? The first time I heard you, I believe you sang it three times’.
at spoony, adj.
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 91: ‘[A]t my first dinner-party told two or three stiffish stories, that I should hardly haveventured on in England’.
at stiff, adj.
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 76: ‘[S]ays I that’s an old pal, I’m about stumped, he’s the man to set me afloat again’.
at stumped, adj.
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 141: ‘The people round here seem very sweet on your chance [of winning]’.
at sweet on (adj.) under sweet, adj.1
[UK] H. Smart Breezie Langton I 95: I must say I thought he meant business with ‘the Brabazon’ though.
at the, adj.
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