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[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II iii: Yes, ’tis all my eye and Betty Martin, indeed.
at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II i: It’s all up with me.
at all up with under all up, adj.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II i: Not a dry eye to be seen! – all the bigwigs dissolved in tears!
at bigwig, n.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II ii: I was mistaken in my bird, I see – a shy cock, right dunghill, shows a white feather.
at bird, n.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Eat raw beefsteaks, drink a glass of blue ruin and bitters before dinner.
at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: Landlord! Waiter! Boots! oddsfish / You Job himself would vex.
at boots, n.2
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II ii: All up with me here – cut – down – jockied – must brush. – Yes, I’ll leave this cursed Coventry.
at brush, v.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: Are you afraid of committing a bull, you dog?
at bull, n.2
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Yes, Sir, I’ve doctored some of the learned – drawn claret from Sam [...] closed the peepers of Ikey Pig.
at claret, n.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Yes, he’s coming the captain Queerman over me! and I must give him a smeller.
at come over, v.2
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II i: Damme, I can’t edge in a word any how.
at damme!, excl.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All At Coventry I i: ram.: Timothy! Why what brought you to Coventry? tim.: A damn’d slow diligence – a Yorkshire waggon, half the way, and my legs [...] the other.
at damned, adv.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: In short, madam, I’m the dandy, the thing, the knowing one, the fancy.
at dandy, n.2
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: Oh, the luxury of scribbling twelve hours a day in the infernal den he called his office!
at den, n.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II ii: Do you mean to insinuate then, Sir, that I’m no gentleman! Zounds, don’t I [...] drive my own dicky?
at dicky, n.3
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II ii: I was mistaken in my bird, I see, – a shy cock, right dunghill.
at dunghill, n.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: No old maid’s footman was ever more nagged and fagged.
at fag, v.2
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Should certainly have made play to fan Sam; only recollected he had fanned the Chicken.
at fan, v.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Pedestrianism is all the go now.
at all the go (adj.) under go, n.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II ii: A foul blow that – no go – all up with me here.
at no go, phr.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Hang love! Give me some very grave, serious, moral, edifying book.
at hang, v.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: I’ll mill you rogue – your hide I’ll flog.
at hide, n.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Yes, Sir, I’ve doctored some of the learned – drawn claret from Sam [...] closed the peepers of Ikey Pig.
at ikey, n.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: Don’t you recollect my success in Old Joskin’s barn, when I played the part of the gallant Lothario with such fire that I melted even the very candles!
at joskin, n.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: So so! This fine striking science turns out to be fighting after all. No occasion to larn Tommy that; he knows how to lather well enough.
at lather, v.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Lud, I wish he would come!
at lud!, excl.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II ii: Duelling’s not the go now, pops have given place to maulers.
at mauler, n.
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: Haven’t I had you larnt Latin by Doctor Bushwig? – laid out a mint of money upon you!
at mint, n.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: They’ve charged for two as I used to do for a double tooth on Mutton Hill; but mum for that though.
at mum, n.1
[UK] W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: But odso, here he comes!
at odso! (excl.) under ods, n.
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