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Natural History of the Gent 17: Short fancy Alberts [...] a species of cloth-boot, with a shiny leather toe and a close row of little mother-of-pearl shirt buttons down the front.at Albert, n.
Natural History of the Gent 17: Short fancy Alberts [...] a species of cloth-boot, with a shiny leather toe and a close row of little mother-of-pearl shirt buttons down the front. Natural History of the Gent 53: He will launch off into all sorts of toe-and-heel tomfooleries [...] at Jullien’s and Vauxhall [...] and other ten-and-sixpenny demi-public hops.at heel-and-toe, v.
Natural History of the Gent 93: They are men [...] strongly addicted to bear parties —who think ‘a glass of grog and a weed’ the acme of social enjoyment.at bear party (n.) under bear, n.
Natural History of the Gent 87: John Bull being represented generally as a vulgar, toop-booted man verging on apoplexy, with, evidently, few ideas of refinement, obstinate and hard-natured.at John Bull, n.1
Natural History of the Gent 56: His surest card is Buckstone.at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
Natural History of the Gent 42: On this dog-cart were four Gents [...] Three had cigars, and the other had a horn; and it was evident that they thought they were ‘doing the fast thing, and no mistake’ [Ibid] 72: Going in a scarlet coat and top-boots, and now and then shouting ‘Yoicks!’ constitutes ‘doing the fast thing’.at fast, adj.1
Natural History of the Gent 5: The guvner give a fippun note for that little mare.at fip-poun, n.
Natural History of the Gent 52: You will find them [...] overstepping all bounds of ordinary behaviour —‘going it,’ to use their own words.at go it, v.
Natural History of the Gent 5: The guvner give a fippun note for that little mare.at guvnor, n.
Natural History of the Gent 53: He will launch off into all sorts of toe-and-heel tomfooleries [...] at Jullien’s and Vauxhall [...] and other ten-and-sixpenny demi-public hops.at hop, n.1
Natural History of the Gent 42: On this dog-cart were four Gents [...] Three had cigars, and the other had a horn; and it was evident that they thought they were ‘doing the fast thing, and no mistake’.at and no mistake under mistake, n.
Natural History of the Gent 46: He thinketh it ‘nobby’ to throw at the sticks’.at nobby, adj.
Natural History of the Gent 72: Other adopt large noses and false mustaches, which they think is ‘doing it —rather!’.at rather!, excl.
Natural History of the Gent 86: He calleth the vin ordinaire ‘rot,’ but drinketh brandy to intoxication.at rotgut, n.
Natural History of the Gent 6: He evidently imagined that he was ‘rather the Stilton than otherwise’ —‘Stilton’ or ‘cheese’ being terms by which Gents imply style or fashion.at Stilton, the, n.
Natural History of the Gent 17: The Gents usually speak of their get-up as the ticket.at ticket, n.1
Natural History of the Gent 8: He imagined that by addressing his coarse, annoying gallantry to an unprotected girl he was [...] ‘a fast man,’ ‘up to a thing or two’.at up to, adv.
Natural History of the Gent 52: He has been ‘dining with some fellows he knows;’ or ‘having a weed with a man’.at weed, n.1
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