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The Yankey in England choose

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[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 70: I don’t care a cent for you.
at not care a cent, v.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 19: No; you were too darned cute; too plaguey knowing in argufying the case.
at argufy, v.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 51: new.: I must go with the baggage. mrs. n.: With the baggage!
at baggage, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 55: You dunderhead! blunderhead!
at blunderhead, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 20: I shan’t stan boggling and dilly-dallying. [Ibid.] 103: Boggling, difficulty, delaying, unecessarily hesitating.
at boggling, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 19: Oh Doolittle! Doolittle! (striking hisforehead) you’ve brought your pigs to a fine market.
at bring one’s hogs to a fair market (v.) under bring, v.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England Epilogue: At Brumingum the smoke from forges curling.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 104: Calculate, used frequently in an improper sense, as reckon, guess.
at calculate, v.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 32: You are tarnation bright—clear as mud.
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 36: At first he maddened me. Crusty! Short as a pie-crust! Techy and snappish.
at crusty, adj.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 19: No; you were too darned cute; too plaguey knowing.
at darned, adv.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 49: Let’s try now to tune my pipes and kick up a dust, to git my foot in.
at kick up (a) dust (v.) under dust, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 71: There’s One will snatch me from your fangs. Death!
at fang, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 97: I’ll wage a nip of toddy, or venture a mug of flip.
at flip, n.1
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 20: Help the gals! what courting! sparking! Ah, you flippant blade!
at gal, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 34: I won’t hear none of your gum.
at gum, n.1
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 49: No . . . I don’t half like it.
at not half, phr.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 20: I guess you are a Yankey, who have been in perils on the great salt herring-pond.
at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 55: The man is raging; mad! mad as a March-hare—horn mad, sure as rates.
at horn-mad, adj.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 24: I’ve some influence, I’ll make Lisbon too hot for you.
at hot, adj.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 88: You needn’t be quite so huffy, Mister!
at huffy, adj.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 47: Nobody but you, who have so much hush money [...] could tell.
at hush money, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 21: For all his flouting at me [...] by the jumping jings, I’ll be up to him.
at jumping, adj.1
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 19: You were a nation deal wiser than brother Jonathan.
at nation, adv.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 86: I’ll knock him down, flat as a flounder! Odds bodikins!
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 55: Massiful man! You pumkin! You bumpkin!
at pumpkin, n.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 49: Rot it all.
at rot!, excl.1
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 34: You needn’t stick your brussels up so high nuther, to make me sing small.
at sing small (v.) under sing, v.
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 37: I wood’nt give that, (snapping his fingers) to call the President and all the CongressUncle!’.
at not care a snap (v.) under snap, n.2
[UK] D. Humphreys Yankey in England 19: Lydia Lovett, the Deacon’s darlin darter; with whom, both man and boy, I’ve sparked it, pretty often-times, so late.
at spark, v.1
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