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[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III 192: I am all abroad.
at abroad, adj.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 163: Miss Flanagan fell out of winder into the airy, and then they took she to Guy’s hospital.
at airy, n.1
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 54: Bad cess to ye, ye impident divvle.
at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 86: I cleaned a groom’s boots on Toosday, and he punched my block because I blacked the tops.
at block, n.1
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe I 114: She’s a good old body though.
at old body (n.) under body, n.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 162: He being drunk, and bumble-footed too, lost his balance.
at bumble-footed (adj.) under bumble, v.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 238: I believe she don’t care twopence for you.
at not care twopence, v.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 232: Turn Lady Ascot once fairly to bay, you would (if you can forgive the slang) get very little change out of her.
at not get any change out of (v.) under change, n.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 274: He was ‘collared’ by a policeman, on a charge of ‘area sneaking’.
at collar, v.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 39: Darn politics.
at darn, adj.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 88: He goes out cly-faking and such. He’s a prig, and a smart one, too.
at fake a cly (v.) under fake, v.1
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 163: And the pleece come in, and got gallus well kicked about the head.
at gallows, adv.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 249: She gandered upstairs to the dressing-room again.
at gander, v.1
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe (1940) 290: ‘Highty-tighty!’ said cook. ‘That does not happen to mean anything [...] Highty-tighty! is no answer to us,’ said Dora.
at highty-tighty!, excl.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 163: They all begins to get a bit noisy and want to fight, and so I hooked it.
at hook, v.1
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III 139: ‘Lawks a mercy me, no,’ said Flora.
at lawks-a-mussy! (excl.) under lawks!, excl.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe 94: Welter has muckered [...] but worse than that, they say that Charles Marston’s classical first is fishy .
at mucker, v.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe 126: In a general state of obfuscation, in consequence of being plied with strange liquors by their patrons.
at obfuscated, adj.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III 178: Charles saw that they were getting into ‘Queer Street’.
at Queer Street, n.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 82: That looks queerish.
at queer, adj.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 80: He could see through a brick wall as well as most men.
at see through a brick wall (v.) under see, v.
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 163: Mr Malone’s lot heaves crockery and broken vegetables at him out of winder [...] so there’s mostly a shine of a Sunday evening.
at shine, n.2
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 89: ‘What is cly-faking,’ said Charles. ‘Why, a-prigging of wipes, and sneeze-boxes, and ridicules, and such.’.
at sneeze-box (n.) under sneeze, n.1
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe I 74: She’s in a terrible wax, but she’ll be all right by the time he comes back from his holidays.
at wax, n.1
[UK] H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III 101: ‘And what sort of person is he?’ said Lord Saltire; ‘A Yahoo, I suppose.’ ‘Not at all; he is a capital fellow — a perfect gentleman.’.
at yahoo, n.1
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