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[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore 237: I wouldn’t have her, [...] if all the generations of the two families, since Adam was an oakum boy in Deptford Dockyard, had been doing nothing else but making wills that it should be so.
at when Adam was an oakum boy (in Chatham) under Adam, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 124: ‘Perhaps, sir,’ said Mr. Dwindlebink, in a small-beer voice.
at small beer, adj.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 132: Groggy, you blinking varmint, you are already three sheets in the wind].
at blinking, adj.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 177: The bluejackets clustered eagerly and anxiously towards where the gratings were rigged.
at bluejacket, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 274: Amazonian Poll and the burly bum-boat woman, stepped ashore.
at bum-boat, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 148: You will smoke, daddy?
at daddy, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore III 273: It does my poor broken heart good to hear ye cuss that sodger – go it again, my daffy-down-dilly, and lay it on thick.
at daffy-down-dilly, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 304: Then down with your deadlights, show your papers, whence from, where bound to?
at deadlights (n.) under dead, adj.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 297: Come, tramp with your dishclout, you fiddle-faced, dog-robbing, trencher-scraper.
at dishclout, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 297: Come, tramp with your dishclout, you fiddle-faced, dog-robbing, trencher-scraper.
at dog-robber, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 294: The artfulness of her tater-faced dump of a daughter.
at dump, n.2
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 297: Come, tramp with your dishclout, you fiddle-faced, dog-robbing, trencher-scraper.
at fiddle-faced (adj.) under fiddle, n.1
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 213: ‘John Truepenny,’ said the bumboat woman, ‘we have both made flaming noodles of ourselves.’.
at flaming, adj.1
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 310: By the great guns of the Old Glory, I’ll let the lubbers know that Jacks Ashore!
at great guns! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 118: A mean-looking, drunken hound, that has just married his trollop.
at hound, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore III 273: It does my poor broken heart good to hear ye cuss that sodger – go it again, my daffydown-dilly, and lay it on thick.
at lay it on, v.
[UK] Jack Ashore 90: Poll, keep your distance just now, or stand clear;-—belay with your jaw tackle. Come, sit on my knee, Susan. Not a word, Poll.
at jaw-tackle (n.) under jaw, v.1
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 37: This jolly, or private marine [...] had mysteriously disappeared with his charge.
at jolly, n.1
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 152: I talked rubbish – I fancied myself above and better than the world, and no longer a mortal man. But another luff, and I should have been a wreck.
at luff, n.1
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 283: You affection-monger, you have married them already.
at -monger, sfx
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 125: So, sir, if you will just step home and draw up something natty, [...] So set too, and begin driving the quill.
at natty, adj.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 120: A sorry nincompoop – he is a contemptible ass.
at nincompoop, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 294: The artfulness of her tater-faced dump of a daughter.
at potato-face (n.) under potato, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 125: ‘What a land-shark!’ said Horatio, in a most elegant stage whisper.
at land shark (n.) under shark, n.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 308: The taking of a sight had not yet prevailed [...] in the present classical costermonger style; but Jack [...] made an intelligible action of contempt.
at take a (single) sight (at) (v.) under sight, n.1
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 294: Polls not so green – no, no – not quite so spooney.
at spoony, adj.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore III 273: It does my poor broken heart good to hear ye cuss that sodger – go it again, my daffydown-dilly, and lay it on thick.
at thick, adv.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore II 155: My wife is going to be hung – I’ve been nabbed for debt – I am bound over to appear at ’sizes agin Poll, and thus, after a way, help to tuck her up.
at tuck up, v.
[UK] E. Howard Jack Ashore I 300: Poll [...] as sure as bogs are bogs, I’ll wop you into a mummy if you are not quiet.
at whop, v.
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