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[UK] Trollope Framley Parsonage (1866) 415: Chaldicotes [...] is a cooked goose.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[UK] Trollope Framley Parsonage (1866) 55: She had sometimes to whisper to Miss Dunstable, for there were one or two fie-fie little anecdotes about a married lady, not altogether fit for young Mr. Robarts ears.
at fie-fie, adj.
[UK] Trollope Framley Parsonage (1866) 415: I cannot understand how a gentleman like Sowerby can like to see his property go into the hands of a gallipot wench whose money still smells of bad drugs.
at gallipot, n.
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