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‘Haunted Subalterns’ in Plain Tales from Hills (1897) 110: ‘I have seen It,’ said the bearer, ‘at night, walking round and round your bed; and that is why everything is ulta-pulta in your room’.at oolta-poolta, adj.
‘Haunted Subalterns’ in Plain Tales from Hills (1897) 110: ‘I have seen It,’ said the bearer, ‘at night, walking round and round your bed; and that is why everything is ulta-pulta in your room’. ‘The Madness of Private Ortheris’ in Plain Tales from the Hills (1890) 265: I’m a Tommy — a bloomin’, eight-anna, dog-stealin’ Tommy, with a number instead of a decent name. [Ibid.] 273: I [...] thought a good deal over Ortheris in particular, and my friend private Thomas Atkins whom I love, in general.at Tommy Atkins, n.
‘Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from Hills (1889) 74: ‘An’ we three,’ said Mulvaney with a seraphic smile, ‘have dhrawn the par-ti-cu-lar attinshin av Bobs Bahadur more than wanst. But he’s a rale good little man is Bobs’.at bahaudur, n.
‘The Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 65: Hoppin’ in an’ out av the shops, thryin’ to injuce the naygurs to mallum his bat. [Ibid.] 66: T’ Sahib doesn’t speak t’ bat.at bat, n.4
‘The Madness of Private Ortheris’ in Plain Tales from the Hills (1890) 267: I’ve belted him, an’ I’ve bruk his head.at belt, v.
‘The Madness of Private Ortheris’ in Plain Tales from the Hills (1890) 266: D’ye mane to say you’ve pink toes undher your bullswools, ye blandanderin’ [...] school-mistress!at blandander, v.
‘The Three Musketeers’ Plain Tales from the Hills 64: ‘Ah said,’ said Learoyd, ‘gie us t’ brass. Tak oop a subscripshun, lads.’.at brass, n.1
‘The Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 67: Says the driver, ‘Decoits ! Wot decoits? That’s Buldoo the budmash.’.at budmash, n.
‘In the House of Suddhoo’ in Plain Tales from Hills (1889) 149: Azizun was nearly in hysterics in the corner; while Janoo sat down composedly on one of the beds to discuss the probabilities of the whole thing being a bunao, or ‘make-up’.at bunnow, n.
‘The Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from the Hills (1889) 71: ‘Thin chel. Shaitan ke marfik, an’ the chooper you choops an’ the jildier you chels the better kooshy will that Sahib be; an’ here’s a rupee for ye?’.at choop, adv.
‘The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows’ in Plain Tales from Hills (1889) 273: He tells everywhere that he keeps a ‘first-chop’ house.at first chop, adj.
‘The Madness of Private Ortheris’ Plain Tales from the Hills (1890) 269: What’s the use of cracking-on for nothing?at crack on, v.2
‘The Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 66: The chooper you choops an’ the jildier you chels the better kooshy will that Sahib be.at cushy, adj.
‘Tod’s Amendment’ Plain Tales from Hills (1889) 196: ‘But what profit is there in five years and fresh papers? Nothing but dikh, trouble, dikh’.at dick, n.8
‘The Daughter of the Regiment’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 192: There come an order from some mad ijjit, whose name I misremember.at eejit, n.
‘The Daughter of the Regiment’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 194: ‘We was a new an’ raw rigimint [...] an’ we cud make neither head nor tail av the sickness.’.at not make head (n)or tail, v.
‘The Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 65: Ye black limb, there’s a Sahib comin’ for this hekka. He wants to go jildi to the Padsahi Jhil [...] You dhrive Jehannum ke marfik, mallum — like Hell?at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
‘The Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 65: I sez, ‘Ye black limb, there’s a Sahib comin’ for this hekka. He wants to go jildi to the Padsahi Jhil.’.at jildi, adv.
‘The Madness of Private Ortheris’ in Plain Tales from the Hills (1890) 273: I’m too little for to mill you, Mulvaney.at mill, v.1
‘The Taking of Lungtungpen’ in Plain Tales from Hills (1889) 113: ‘We hunted, an’ we hunted, an’ tuk fever an’ elephints now an’ again; but no dacoits. Evenshually, we puckarowed wan man. ‘Trate him tinderly,’ sez the Lift’nint. So I tuk him away into the jungle, wid the Burmese Interprut’r an’ my clanin’-rod’.at puckerow, v.
‘The Three Musketeers’ in Plain Tales from Hills (1889) 73: ‘Hall right,’ sez we, ‘you puckrow that there pony an’ come along. This Sahib’s been decoited, an’ we’re going to resky ’im!’.at puckerow, v.
‘The Madness of Private Ortheris’ in Plain Tales from the Hills (1890) 268: The Copper that takes you up is an old friend that tuk you up before, when you was a little, smitchy boy.at smitchy, adj.
‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’ in Plain Tales from the Hills (1890) 131: I’ve ’eard a few beggars in the clink blind, stiff and crack on a bit.at stiff, v.1
‘The Rout of the White Hussars’ in Plain Tales from the Hills 224: The soul of the Regiment lives in the Drum-Horse who carries the silver kettle-drums. He is nearly always a big piebald Waler.at Waler, n.
‘Pig’ in Plain Tales from the Hills (1889) 221: If the Editor had seen the stacks of paper, in Pinecoffin’s handwriting [...] he would not have been so sarcastic about the ‘nebulous discursiveness and blatant self-sufficiency of the modern Competition-wallah, and his utter inability to grasp the practical issues of a practical question’.at wallah, n.
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