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[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy 295: ‘Fat Jack of the bone-house,’ obseryed the lieutenant, looking at Oxbelly.
at Fat Jack of the bonehouse (n.) under bone, n.1
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy I 181: ‘Well, then, my chick, I must trouble you with a little more of this,’ said Vigors, drawing out his colt.
at chick, n.1
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy I 180: ‘Well,’ replied Jack. ‘And then he colted me for half an hour, and that’s all.’.
at colt, v.2
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy I 182: ‘And now, youngster,’ said Jack, wresting the colt out of Vigor’s hand, ‘do as I bid you — give him a good colting — if you don’t I’ll thrash you.’.
at colt, n.2
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy (1837) 82: Do as I bid you — give him a good colting — if you don’t I’ll thrash you.
at colting, n.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy II 305: ‘I hope I have not sworn — I hope not.’ ‘Not a word,’ said Jack – ‘I was close to you all the time — you only said, “God preserve us!”’ ‘Only that? I was afraid that I said “God d--n it!”’.
at god-damn it!, excl.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy I 3: They allowed him to discuss the question, while they discussed his port wine.
at discuss, v.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy III 123: ‘Now strike like hell! — and drive down de plaster,’ said Mesty.
at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy II 55: What the hell are you making such a howling about?
at what the hell...?, phr.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy II 251: He then applied to Gascoigne who told him in a very surly tone to go to h-ll.
at go to hell! (excl.) under hell, n.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy III 9: By de holy poker, Massa Easy, but that terrible sort of gale the other day any how — I tink one time, we all go to Davy Joney’s lacker.
at by the holy poker! (excl.) under holy poker, n.1
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy II 294: ‘What an old Jonah you are, Martin,’ said Gascoigne.
at jonah, n.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy I 185: A man who has belonged to the swell mob is not easily repulsed.
at swell mob, n.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy I 129: The praters are in the copper.
at pratie, n.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy II 279: He had taken a peculiar fancy to a quack medicine, called Enouy’s Universal Medicine for all Mankind.
at quack, adj.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy III 11: Why you stay in Midshipman berth eat hard biscuit, salt pig, salt horse?
at salt horse (n.) under salt, n.3
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy II 57: I’ll be shot, but we’re in a pretty scrape; there’s no hushing this up.
at I’ll be shot (if) under shoot, v.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy II 149: I never was in love myself, but I’ve seen many others spooney.
at spoony, adj.
[UK] Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy II 161: ‘Perhaps, sir,’ replied Jack, [...] ‘you will permit us to pay our bill before we go on board. We are no swindlers.’.
at swindler, n.
[UK] J.H. Ingraham Midshipman 62: ‘Sail ho!’ [...] ‘What do you make her?’ .
at make, v.
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