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Navy at Home II 168: Some, even from among the blue coats; who had shewed a leg at the upper rooms at Bath, or at fashionable parties.at show a leg, v.
Navy at Home II 168: Some, even from among the blue coats; who had shewed a leg at the upper rooms at Bath, or at fashionable parties. Navy at Home II 117: Then says you ‘fie! fie!’ who, fie?— a fico for your fie, ‘the fig of Spain’.at fig, a, n.
Navy at Home II 291: A galley packet, as it is called, quickly ran round the lower deck [...] to say, that she was a French frigate, coming down on them under all sail — to which might be heard sundry answers— ‘Yes, in a hurry!’ ‘who?’ ‘all my eye, Betty Martin;’ ‘tell that to the marines’ ‘thank you for the next — we’re sure of that, boy’.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Navy at Home II 134: At this thought, a shade of ‘Allicholly’ [...] came over one and all.at allicholy, adj.
Navy at Home I 116: There was one part of the ship, in spite of his vigilance and severity, that he never could keep in any tolerable order — a sort of Alsatia afloat — Now this place was no other than the steerage and the Alsatians, the midshipmen, who had a sort of prescriptive right to play all sorts of pranks.at Alsatia, n.
Navy at Home I 151: ‘As you can’t converse like a gentleman, I shall find a time and place to talk to you in another strain.’ — ‘Strain, my a — e, let’s drop it’.at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
Navy at Home II 14: Florence, whose mess was
famous for its puddings (onbanyan days).at Banyan day, n.
Navy at Home I vii: Others appeared not of a nature as we have said, to be swallowed by any effort of patience and enough to choke a horse.at big enough to choke a bull (adj.) under big, adj.
Navy at Home I 253: ‘I say, Bolus,’ cried the purser in a high key, so as to reach the doctor’s ears.at bolus, n.
Navy at Home II 311: The purser [...] had been hit in the bread bag.at bread-bag (n.) under bread, n.1
Navy at Home II 126: They handed him up, to a bunch of these fair creatures.at bunch, n.1
Navy at Home I 270: Toby would find
the grog,half and half; and that the burgoo was excellent. at burgoo, n.
Navy at Home II 128: Hiccuping out, ‘that old Smallnouse, he was sure, ‘couldn’t see a hole through a ladder’.at can’t see a hole in a (forty-foot) ladder under can’t..., phr.
Navy at Home II 110: Well, my game chicken, since nothing else will serve your turn, I’ll accommodate you!at chicken, n.
Navy at Home II 279: After which, he gave them a song or two, calling out at every verse for ‘coal box,’ or chorus.at coal-box (n.) under coal, n.1
Navy at Home II 204: D—n your black cocoa nut, let the man go on.at coconut, n.1
Navy at Home I 91: Nor were his slumbers unbroken by the horrid visions of wet swabs, cuttings down, cold pig, and capsizes.at cold pig (n.) under cold, adj.
Navy at Home I 119: Hardly a week passed without some deadly complaint of being cut down — or a cold bath — familiarly denominated cold pig.at cold pig (n.) under cold, adj.
Navy at Home II 185: Billybuffer was compared to a rum-puncheon, and from said rotundity, [...] being frequently, with faces of concern and condolence, asked after the health and state of his corporation.at corporation, n.
Navy at Home III 60: The bucks, down stairs, after laughing till they were tired at the landlady’s adventure [...] went cruizing.at cruise, v.
Navy at Home II 251: Aye, aye [...] they cut it fat enough — an ensign lives like a prince, they tells me, and marries directly as he goes out.at cut it fat (v.) under cut it, v.3
Navy at Home II 227: ‘Boy! take these here marine officers off the table,’ pushing the empty bottles to one side.at dead marine (n.) under dead, adj.
Navy at Home II 198: A lean fantastical demirep of fashion.at demi-rep, n.
Navy at Home II 72: Weazel, who smiled, and winked, [...] and did the ‘amiable,’' with as much grace as the most accomplished bear in Polito’s Menagerie.at do the — (v.) under do, v.1
Navy at Home I 38: By the time any given fid, or morsel, of said pudding, dog’s body, twice laid, or junk (salt beef) got to the further end of the table [etc.].at dogsbody, n.
Navy at Home I 139: [He] darted his pate into the remains of some dog’s-body or pease pudding.at dogsbody, n.
Navy at Home II 196: My good Soundings, [...] you must I fear, douse your dust without more ado.at douse one’s dust (v.) under dust, n.
Navy at Home II 224: Weazel had long since dowsed his dust, that is to say, paid scot and lot.at douse one’s dust (v.) under dust, n.
Navy at Home I 181: I see, Taffy has given you the worst of it — you did not know, I suppose, that he is the fire-eater of the set?at fire-eater, n.
Navy at Home II 128: Toby had taken too much heavy wet on board; (Gay compared his eyes [...] to ‘two burnt holes in a blanket!’).at eyes like pissholes in the snow (n.) under eye, n.
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