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[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 297: Spoil sports! The father of all manners of troubles on earth, be they noxious trade of croakers!
at father (and mother) of..., n.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 295: Here’s a fellow calls himself the captain of a ship, and Her Majesty’s servant, and talks about failing, as if he were a Barbican loose-kirtle trying to keep her applesquire ashore!
at apple squire (n.) under apple, n.1
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 296: No old tarry-breeks of a sea-dog, like thy dad!
at tarry-breeks, n.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho II 296: Marry come up, what says Scripture?
at marry come up!, excl.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 286: He sailed with my father Captain Will, when they were both two little cracks aboard of a trawler.
at crack, n.1
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 297: Spoil sports! The father of all manners of troubles on earth, be they noxious trade of croakers!
at croaker, n.1
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 301: Does he think we are going to [...] run our noses at night – and dead up-wind, too – into the Dons’ mouth?
at don, n.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 287: Iss fegs, Oh, he was a king!
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 295: Here’s a fellow calls himself the captain of a ship, and Her Majesty’s servant, and talks about failing, as if he were a Barbican loose-kirtle trying to keep her applesquire ashore!
at loose-bodied gown (n.) under loose, adj.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho II 168: Mine host [...] howling as he departs— ‘Tell patrico!’.
at patrico, n.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho II 216: ‘To London? How wilt thou get there?’ ‘On Shanks his mare,’ said Jack, pointing to his bandy legs.
at shanks’s pony, n.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho II 213: She was too good for a poor pot-head like me.
at pothead, n.1
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho II 170: ‘Go away,’ I heard her say [...] and then something about a ‘queer cuffin,’ (that’s a justice in these canters’ thieves’ Latin).
at queer cuffin (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] C. Kingsley Westward Ho III 297: These same beggarly croakers, that be only fit to be turned into yellow-hammers up to Dartymoor.
at yellowhammer, n.
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