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[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 12: What’s making Billy fight so dead? / He’s all to pieces. Is he blown?
at all to pieces, adj.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 62: She made one rush and gi’m a bat / And shook him like a dog a rat.
at bat, n.2
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 11: Billy bats / Some stinging short-arms in my slats.
at bat, v.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 38: And this is Sodom and Gomorrah, / And now I’ll burn you up, begorra.
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 33: A madness took me then. I felt / I’d like to hit the world a belt.
at belt, n.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 5: When Bill was stripped down to his bends / I thought how long we two’d been friends.
at bend, n.1
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 44: That young blade from Worcester Walk / (You know how country people talk).
at blade, n.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 54: So blazing mad, I stalked to bar / To show how noble drunkards are.
at blazing, adv.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 33: Maligning, peering, hinting, lying, / Male and female human blots / Who would, but daren’t be, whores and sots.
at blot, n.1
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 12: What’s making Billy fight so dead? / He’s all to pieces. Is he blown?
at blown (out), adj.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 3: Silas Jones, that bookie wide, / Will make a purse five pounds a side.
at bookie, n.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 59: Her Jimmy’s out again, / In Market-place, with boozer Kane.
at boozer, n.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 40: By God, he’s stripped down to his buff.
at buff, n.1
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 13: With all his skill and all his might / He clipped me dizzy left and right.
at clip, v.1
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 3: ‘You closhy put.’ / ‘You bloody liar.’.
at closhy, adj.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 26: And Si hit Dicky Twot a clouter / Because he put his arm about her.
at clouter, n.2
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 55: I staggered into street again / With mind made up (or primed with gin) / To bash the cop who’d run me in.
at cop, n.1
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 39: Back, stand back, / Or else I’ll fetch your skulls a crack.
at crack, n.1
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 11: And when he hit he winced with pain. / I thought, ‘Your sprained thumb’s crocked again.’.
at crocked, adj.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 23: Thomas was having words with Goss, / He ‘wouldn’t pay, the fight was cross.’.
at cross, adj.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 11: Faces of men who’d never been / Merry or true or live or clean; [...] Nor took a punch nor given a swing, / But just soaked deady round the ring.
at deady, n.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 10: They drove (a dodge that never fails) / A pin beneath my finger nails.
at dodge, n.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 73: She took my tumbler from the bar [...] And poured it out upon the floor dust, / Among the fag-ends, spit and sawdust.
at fag end, n.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 28: I’ll bloody him a bloody fix, / I’ll bloody burn his bloody ricks.
at fix, n.2
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 15: Saul is a wonder and a fly ’un. / What’ll you have, Saul, at the Lion?
at fly, adj.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 46: I hurled the bench into the settle, / I banged the table on the kettle [...] And as I ran I heard ’em call, / ‘Now damn to hell, what’s gone with Saul?’.
at what gives? under give, v.3
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 32: I’ve never had my go. / I’ve not had all the world can give.
at go, n.1
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 67: [He] Who never worked [...] But poached and stole and gone with women, / And swilled down gin enough to swim in.
at go with, v.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 12: It’s all your own, but don’t be rash – / He’s got the goods if you’ve got cash.
at goods, n.
[UK] J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 22: One of those assembled Greeks / Had corked black crosses on his cheeks.
at Greek, n.
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