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[UK] C. Brontë Jane Eyre II 127: What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clodhopping messenger would never do.
at clodhopping, adj.
[UK] C. Brontë Jane Eyre II 138: ‘She’s a rare one, is she not, Jane?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘A strapper—a real strapper, big, brown and buxom.’.
at strapper, n.
[UK] C. Brontë Jane Eyre II 84: Yes, ma’am, but she looks such a tinkler.
at tinkler, n.1
[UK] C. Brontë Jane Eyre II 42: I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent: that is, playing on her ignorance; her trail might be clever, but it was decidedly not good-natured.
at trail, n.
[UK] C. Brontë Jane Eyre II 42: I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent: that is, playing on her ignorance; her trail might be clever, but it was decidedly not good-natured.
at trail, v.
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