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[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 225: ’Arry and Lord Fitznoodle have been left behind at Henley.
at ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 26: Bally tent’s blown down, I think.
at bally, adj.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 297: Oh, bother the silly old thing!
at bother, v.
[UK] 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.
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 314: I think we did well to chuck it when we did.
at chuck it, v.
[UK] 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
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 78: Harris was chucked from here in December 1886.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] 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.
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 56: One of those irritating, senseless, chuckle-headed, crack-jawed laughs of his.
at chuckleheaded, adj.
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 64: ‘Get up, you fat-headed chunk!’ roared Harris.
at chunk, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 153: Give us a hand here, can’t you, you cuckoo.
at cuckoo, n.1
[UK] 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
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 131: Why couldn’t you wind it up properly, you silly dummy?
at dummy, n.1
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 64: Get up, you fat-headed chunk!
at fat-headed, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 108: He’s larking about somewhere, that’s what he’s doing.
at lark, v.
[UK] J.K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat 24: ‘What are you up to,’ he retorts; ‘leggo, can’t you?’.
at leggo!, excl.
[UK] 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.
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