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[UK] T.E. Hook ‘Merton’ Sayings and Doings 1st Ser. II 323: Wondering whether he should get a command [...] whether he could draw full batta in peace-time.
at batty, n.1
[UK] T.E. Hook ‘Merton’ Sayings and Doings 1st Ser. III 89: Ould Mrs. Etherington was a right bad one; she used to be – ‘Lord, how come you so!’ every night, as regular as she went to bed.
at how came you so, phr.
[UK] T.E. Hook ‘Danvers’ Sayings and Doings 1st Ser. I 20: His property was immense [...] and few people ventured to guess, to use the delicate and commonly accepted term, what he would cut up for.
at cut up, v.2
[UK] T.E. Hook Merton in Sayings and Doings 1st Ser. II 285: The elegant, ‘gallant, gay, Lothario,’ [....] was no other than Sir Harry Lavington, a baronet, a lancer, and a lady-killer.
at lothario, n.
[UK] T.E. Hook Sayings and Doings 2nd Ser. 9: See how we’ve made the ‘Miss Podger’ / Hunt for the dibs of the old Indian codger.
at dibbs, n.
[UK] T.E. Hook Sayings and Doings 2nd Ser. II i 278: The Colonel was to give a feed that day [...] a grand blow-out.
at feed, n.
[UK] T.E. Hook Sayings and Doings 2nd Ser. 44: James felt assured that she was a very prudent long-headed person.
at long-headed, adj.
[UK] T.E. Hook Sayings and Doings 2nd Ser. 3: Then the rupees of a ‘qui hi,’ [...] And this ‘qui hi’ such speeches made.
at qui-hi, n.
[UK] in T.E. Hook ‘Man of Many Friends’ Sayings and Doings 2nd Ser. II i 123: I will trot myself off for the moment, and be back immediately.
at trot (out), v.
[UK] in T.E. Hook ‘Man of Many Friends’ Sayings and Doings 2nd Ser. II i 122: I can give you a daily abstract of fashionable scan-mag.
at scanmag, n.
[UK] T.E. Hook Sayings and Doings 2nd Ser. II i 229: Mr. Abberly used to think it quite spiry to wear a white hat and sit upon the coach-box and drive them himself on Sundays.
at spiry, adj.
[UK] T.E. Hook Sayings and Doings 2nd Ser. 9: Sweet Fanny — she’s dead; / And Kate, merry soul! / Is doing the gawdy / In — Square, a lord he / Is caught, (so they troll / These ladies of certain description).
at troll, v.
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