1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 225: ’Arry and Lord Fitznoodle have been left behind at Henley.at ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 217: Another good way we discovered of irritating the aristocratic type of steam launch, was to mistake them for a beanfeast, and ask them if they were Messrs. Cubit’s lot [...] and could they lend us a saucepan.at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 24: The third man [...] wants to know what the thundering blazes you’re playing at, and why the blarmed tent isn’t up yet.at blame, adj.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 55: What I had meant, of course, was that I should boss the job.at boss, v.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 298: Iffley Lock and Mill [...] is a favourite subject with the river-loving brethren of the brush.at brother (of the) brush (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 314: I think we did well to chuck it when we did.at chuck it, v.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 78: I wonder now [...] if they would put up signs over the public-houses that he had patronised: ‘Harris had a glass of bitter in this house;’ [...] ‘Harris was chucked from here in December, 1886’.at chuck, v.2
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 116: No, you’re not, you chuckle-head, you’re singing the Admiral’s song from Pinafore.at chucklehead, n.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 56: One of those irritating, senseless, chuckle-headed, crack-jawed laughs of his.at chuckleheaded, adj.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 39: [E]verything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.at come down on, v.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 11: He said they would do him for the whole week at two pounds five.at do, v.1
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 131: Why couldn’t you wind it up properly, you silly dummy?at dummy, n.1
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 275: But they are not to be ‘had’ by a bit of worm on the end of a hook, nor anything like it—not they!at had, adj.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 57: George asked if the soap was in. I said I didn’t care a hang whether the soap was in or whether it wasn’t.at hang, n.1
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 10: Harris said he thought it would be humpy. He said he knew the sort of place I meant; where everybody went to bed at eight o’clock.at humpy, adj.2
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 27: We therefore decided we would sleep out on fine nights, and hotel it, and inn it, and pub it, like respectable folks, when it was wet.at it, n.2
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 314: ‘I think we did well to chuck it when we did. Here’s to Three Men well out of a Boat!’.at out of it, adj.1
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 190: If we didn’t mind roughing it [...] there was a little beershop half a mile down the Eton road.at rough it, v.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 157: They had a very jolly evening and sat up late, and, by the time they came to go to bed they [...] were slightly jolly, too.at jolly, adj.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 238: We could not go round, knocking up cottagers and householders in the middle of the night.at knock up, v.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 234: They knocked up a little place for him at the bottom of the garden.at knock up, v.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 108: He’s larking about somewhere, that’s what he’s doing.at lark, v.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 24: ‘What are you up to,’ he retorts; ‘leggo, can’t you?’.at leggo!, excl.
1889 J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 278: Lor love you! me and the missus we listens to ’em all day now. It’s what you’re used to, you know.at lord love...!, excl.