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[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 45: For a couple of tin tacks I’d bust you in the dial.
at dial, n.
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 47: My eye, you’ve certainly caused some goings-on since you blossomed forth as footballers.
at my eye(s)!, excl.
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 42: I did not ask you to spin me a fairy-tale. I want to hear the truth, not lies.
at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 43: Great Snakes! Look who’s coming down to footer!
at footer, n.2
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 47: Shut you mug, you hee-hawing Homer!
at hee-haw, v.
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 54: ‘What’s the idea?’ he roared. ‘Can’t you let your boy take a licking.’.
at licking, n.
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 47: Shut your mug, you hee-hawing Homer!
at mug, n.1
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 45: Rats and more rats! It’s American.
at rats!, excl.
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 44: In some astonishment in seeing Jelly in footer rig.
at rig, n.3
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 51: Shut up, you chump!
at shut up!, excl.
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 45: The wrathful pair stopped slanging each other abruptly.
at slang, v.1
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 47: We’re beaten! [...] Those stiffs have got him.
at stiff, n.1
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 47: It’s a bit thick that we’ve already lost more of our regular team through mumps than the other Houses.
at thick, adj.
[Scot] Hotspur 11 Jan. 43: The Trans-Atlantic House, better known as Yank House.
at Yank, adj.
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