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[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 59: Never again will I take a refusal, when I offer again to serve as chief cook and bottle-washer of one of your shooting trips, sir.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 87: Begad, sir.
at begad!, excl.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 74: I shall rake in the boodle [...] I shall be as rich as Andie and John D. combined.
at boodle, n.1
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 122: The Patron would dole out some ‘cow in dem tin box’ [...] it’s some of the Chicago beef I took over.
at cow, n.1
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 67: When you come back, my dusky lad, I fit to give you five dollars, savvy?
at dusky, adj.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 96: Disappear – my eye!
at my eye(s)!, excl.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 45: As bare of type as his own ‘flies’ skating rink,’ to use the office-boy’s description of the shining dome of hairless pate.
at skating rink for flies, n.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 41: Here goes for a flutter, in which you gossoons will be darned glad to chip in your hard-earned dollars.
at flutter, n.1
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 112: You white-livered cur!
at white-livered, adj.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 101: He lifted me up, and tell me dat he don’t ’low niggah trash to speak to him like dat.
at nigger, adj.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 57: I guess you’ve got a bite from a tstse, and that your complaint is the one in which cent. per cent. peg out.
at peg out, v.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 37: He’s getting into the ways of the native – too much sleep palaver.
at palaver, n.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 104: Jimmy-john get out one of dem pop-bottles from the wine-cellar!
at pop, n.1
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 37: Give him a good rouser this time, Collings!
at rouser, n.
[UK] Slave Stories 11: If you go rubbering the gals like that in New York City, Captain, you’ll bite off more than you can chew.
at rubberneck, v.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 11: Yah! rubber neck!
at rubberneck, n.
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 66: Yes, sonny, me fit one time.
at son, n.1
[UK] ‘J.W.L.’ Slave Stories 13: Then I lay my hands on another thou.
at thou, n.
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