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[Scot] Noctes Ambrosianae May 175: Upon my honor, that's a most natty surtout—and your spatterdashes, why they are quite the potato.
at potato, n.
[Scot] Noctes Ambrosianae July (1863) 337: Very toploftical to be sure .
at top-loftical, adj.
[Scot] Noctes Ambrosianae in Blackwood’s Mag. xxxvi 132: Dog on’t, you’ll bring bluid.
at dog on it! (excl.) under dog!, excl.
[Scot] Noctes Ambrosianae 8: I saw him not a week ago taking a shove in the mouth at old Mother Murly's in St. Martin's Lane.
at shove in the mouth (n.) under shove, n.
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