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Hookey 3: Blow me if it ain’t my old ‘Dot-an’-carry-One’.at dot and carry one, n.
Hookey 3: Blow me if it ain’t my old ‘Dot-an’-carry-One’. Hookey 17: The ‘pinching of watches’; the humours of ‘bilking’.at bilk, v.
Hookey 50: ‘Hell and Tommy,’ said he; ‘blue blazes, red murder – if I get a chance.’.at blue blazes (n.) under blue, adj.5
Hookey 23: ‘Only yesterday,’ said he, ‘I got another bung in the eye.’.at bung, n.6
Hookey 6: An’ mother done a bunk with a strong man called Hercules.at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
Hookey 142: An’ then she carried on somethink chronic.at something chronic (n.) under chronic, adj.
Hookey 142: I turned round to make a few caustic remarks to them grinnin’ clothes-props.at clothes-prop, n.
Hookey 26: You live in a bedroom and call it your ‘digs’.at digs, n.1
Hookey 141: All our men-servants are very nice. The other gals don’t think so; an’ always run ’em down.at run down, v.
Hookey 135: ’E looked at me that old-fashioned, you’d ’ave laughed.at old-fashioned, adj.
Hookey 68: Come, come, comrades! You ain’t goin’ter let this so-called debate fizzle out where it begun?at fizzle (out), v.
Hookey 132: An’ the missis will say: [...] In our day, servants knew their places – which is red flannel, of course.at flannel, n.2
Hookey 44: Joy Street usually referred to her (or any other of her kind) as ‘a bit of fluff’.at bit of fluff (n.) under fluff, n.1
Hookey 43: Yesterday, I met a country josser, / And I had him for his watch and chain. / On his snitch I gave him such a gosher, / He fell whack – on his back – down in Drury Lane.at gosher, n.
Hookey 33: Wotcher! ’Oo’s got the perlice in their shop? ’Ookey Walker? Not ’arf!at not half!, excl.
Hookey 43: Yesterday, I met a country josser, / And I had him for his watch and chain.at have, v.
Hookey 88: ’Ow anybody as ’as got enough good manners to clean ’is teeth of a mornin’ can go an’ get filthy drunk in the evenin’ knocks me ’oller.at hollow, adv.
Hookey 144: An’ – an’ my jimmy! wh-what an ugly copper it was as t-took me away!at jiminy!, excl.
Hookey 43: Yesterday, I met a country josser, / And I had him for his watch and chain.at josser, n.4
Hookey 134: ‘Look here,’ said Hookey, ‘if a girl was to come along an’ lump you in the mouth, what would you do?’ [...] ‘You’d lump ’er back again – that’s what you’d do.’.at lump, v.2
Hookey 45: Bit silly, ain’t it, me comin’ in moony like that? Thought I was still walkin’ with somebody in the park.at moony, adj.
Hookey 3: A glass of ginger-ale which my young friend had pressed on me. ‘Get that down your neck,’ she said.at get it down one’s neck (v.) under neck, n.
Hookey 132: I shall be told to sit in the servants’ ’all with the butler on guard [...] An’ then I shall be outed.at outed (adj.) under out, v.2
Hookey 51: The jug – the clink – the lock-up – the rest-house – the King’s waiting room – the – in short, the police-station.at resthouse, n.
Hookey 91: An’ I says, ‘Righto, boy!’.at righto!, excl.
Hookey 43: Yesterday, I met a country josser, / And I had him for his watch and chain. / On his snitch I gave him such a gosher.at snitch, n.1
Hookey 87: Ain’t that the ticket – pretty near it? Eh?at ticket, n.1
Hookey 78: I’ve got wheels in me ’ead, an’ the kid’ll ’oller, an’ ’e’ll call me names.at have wheels (in one’s head) (v.) under wheels, n.
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