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Speed the Plough choose

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[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I ii: ash: Well, Peter, is the carriage much broke? peter: Smashed all to pieces.
at all to pieces, adv.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough III iii: I’ll argufy the topic.
at argufy, v.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I i: As sure as twopence, that is Nelly’s husband.
at sure as twopence under sure as..., phr.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I ii: I’ll gi’ ye a belly-full any day, wi’ all my heart and soul.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough V i: But confusion to melancholy! I am come here to meet an angel who will [...] drive away the blue devils.
at blue devils, n.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I ii: sir abel: Earn his livelihood! ash.: Ees, zur; – how do he gain his bread? sir abel: Bread! oh, he can’t earn his bread, bless you! he’s a genius.
at bread, n.1
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I i: Dame Grundy’s butter was quite the crack of the market.
at crack, n.1
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough II ii: But dash it, Lady Nelly, what do make thee paint thy vace all over wi’ rud ochre zoo?
at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I i: Drabbit it, only to think of the zwaps and changes of this world!
at drabbit!, excl.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough II iv: Come, Dame, hang the rheumatics!
at hang!, excl.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough III iii: I do hope as our landlords have a tightish big lump of the good, they’ll be zo kind hearted as to take a little bit of the bad.
at lump, n.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I i: Odds dickens and daizeys!
at ods, n.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I i: There is not a girl in the parish that is not ready to pull caps for him.
at pull caps (v.) under pull, v.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough II ii: handy, jun.: I rather fancy I can plough better than any man in England. sir abel: You don’t say so!
at you don’t say under say, v.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough II iv: ash.: I suppose you can sheake [sic] a leg a bit? handy, jun.: I fancy I can dance every possible step.
at shake a leg (v.) under shake, v.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough IV ii: He told me you had been duped of your fortune by sharpers.
at sharper, n.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough I i: The Miss Grundys, genteel as they think themselves, would be glad to snap at him.
at snap, v.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough II iii: Poor thing!
at thing, n.
[UK] T. Morton Speed the Plough IV i: And han’t I a thumping zilver watch, almost as big as thy head?
at thumping, adj.
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