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[UK] Kipling ‘The Man Who Would be King’ Writings in Prose and Verse (1899) 73: Every footy little village for fifty miles has come in rejoiceful.
at footy, adj.
[UK] Kipling ‘The Rhyme Of The Three Captains’ Writings in Prose and Verse (1899) 109: The skipper peered beneath his palm and swore by the Great Horn Spoon: — ‘’Fore Gad, the Chaplain of the Fleet would bless my picaroon!’.
at by the great horn spoon! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
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