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The Cock House at Fellsgarth choose

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[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 27: ‘I heard Yorke just now ask Denton if he thought Fisher’s minor was all there’.
at all there, adj.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth ‘Three and ten; I dare say he won't be stiff about the bit, three and ten; and that roll and butter’: .
at bit, n.1
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 48: ‘[T]hat’ll be seven off their side [...] and one more to us — bully!’.
at bully!, excl.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 202: Let no-one charge these boys with chicken-heartedness.
at chicken-heartedness (n.) under chicken-hearted, adj.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 65: ‘Well?’ asked the three exiles [...] ‘Choked him off,’ said Wally, fanning himself. ‘Jolly hard work. But he came round’.
at choke off, v.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 213: ‘Do you mean to insinuate that I’ve taken the club money! [...] Or that I was going to cook the accounts so that it should not be known?’.
at cook, v.1
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 41: ‘You’re telling crams; that’s not why you brought us here’.
at cram, n.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 139: ‘[W]ouldn't it be rather a crow for them to see that we are licked without them?’.
at crow, n.3
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 189: ‘Cut your sticks, and learn your rotten Modern lessons’.
at cut (one’s) stick(s), v.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 114: [T]he unspeakable anguish of beholding Wally, D'Arcy, Ashby, and Fisher II [...] having a dingdong game of punt-about.
at ding-dong, adj.1
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 24: ‘Now, kid, lamm it on and show them what you can do’.
at lam (it) into (v.) under lam, v.1
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 59: Cottle brought a pair of gloves up this term, and young Lickford had an old pair; so we three and Ramshaw have been having an eight-handed mill.
at mill, n.1
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 201: Wisdom used to say he could do it in three hours [...] But he was a wonner to go.
at oner, n.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 83: [T]here’d been a regular plant among ’em to rig the Elections [...] it’s a howling swindle.
at plant, n.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth : ‘Cot and Lick [...] lammed it pretty hard; but Ram and I were just scrunching them up’.
at scrunch, v.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 250: ‘Dangle, hold your tongue, you cad!’ ‘I shall do nothing of the kind, you snob!’ .
at snob, n.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth n.p.: ‘Three and ten; I dare say he won't be stiff about the bit, three and ten; and that roll and butter’.
at stiff, adj.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 56: ‘[S]tinks’ — (the strictly Classical nickname for chemistry).
at stinks, n.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 41: Jolly well done of you, kid — you’re a stunner.
at stunner, n.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 161: [of ginger beer] No more shoe-leather or flat swipes.
at swipes, n.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 83: ‘I never did believe in those Waterbury turnips, they always stop’.
at turnip, n.
[UK] T.B. Reed Cock House Fellsgarth 209: ‘How very naughty of them not to stay and be whopped’.
at whop, v.
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