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Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 8: Dear Dashall, all’s up [...] Nothing can save you but the ready.at all up, adj.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 8: Dear Dashall, all’s up [...] Nothing can save you but the ready. Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 27: Dick, fill this box with backy.at bacca, n.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 12: Such a blow-up the other night! [...] Words got high and oaths flew about like roleaus.at blow-up, n.1
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 71: Confound Mr. Caustic! My bankruptcy will be blown, and then —.at blown, adj.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 81: While you were affluent, the elegant flavour of your Tokay kept down the coarse twang of the borachio in your manners.at borachio, n.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 9: The miserable fact is, I am completely broziered, cut down to a sixpence, and have left town.at broziered, adj.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 57: I will touch him up with a bit of a capias. [...] Then follow that up with a fi-fa [...] If that won’t do, tip him a ca-sa.at ca-sa, n.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 10: If you wish to trade in style, and make a splash, you must fancy Cheapside and [...] Lloyds [...] egad – talk of Brooks’s or Newmarket; chicken hazard to the game we play at Lloyd’s.at chicken, adj.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 53: Dashall: You seem a little damaged. Allspice: Yes, funny, an’t I? I got hold of a little bottle [...] it was devilish good.at damaged, adj.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 70: My name in the Gazette at this moment when I was doing them all in such a capital style!at do, v.1
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 34: allspice: Aye; and what’s being a lame duck? dashall: I’ll shew you the way to be that too. I’ll teach you the true waddle.at lame duck, n.1
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 26: Fiddledeedee – Superannuated old fool!at fiddledeedee!, excl.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 10: My old gig of a father wore a velvet night-cap in his counting house – what a vile bore, ha! ha! [Ibid.] 13: What a superlative gig it [i.e. an old man] is.at gig, n.2
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 7: Impudent scoundrel! but [...] I must humour him. – You’re a high fellow.at high, adj.2
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 55: Faulkner has hummed you out of that sum.at hum, v.1
Way to Get Married
in Inchbold
(1808) XXV 9: If I can humbug old Allspice out of a few thousands [...] I shall cut a gay figure, and make a splash yet.at humbug, v.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 8: So! lurched every way; stocks, insurance, hops, hazard, and green peas, all over the left shoulder.at over the left (shoulder)!, excl.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 8: So! lurched every way; stocks, insurance, hops, hazard, and green peas, all over the left shoulder.at lurch, v.1
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 25: What! dizen’d out – expect to touch the mopusses, eh?at mopus, n.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 66: I’m a Newgate solicitor; and for fifty pounds will undertake to prevent gibbeting, at least.at Newgate solicitor (n.) under Newgate, n.
Way to Get Married
in Inchbold
(1808) XXV 12: Well said, old one—you’ve some nous about you.at nous, n.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 10: Curse the quiz! I’ll throw off a little – Perhaps you’ve not been in town lately.at throw off, v.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 8: Then, like a flat, I must get pigeon’d at faro.at pigeon, v.1
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 13: Ha! ha! rat me! bet at last I’ve said a good one.at rat me! (excl.) under rat, v.1
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 8: None of your ropy champagne – the real stuff.at ropey, adj.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 11: I give him my note for double the sum [I owe], he discounts it—I touch half in the ready—note comes due—double the sum again—touch half again, and so on to the tune of fifty thousand pounds. If monopolies answer, make all straight—if not, smash—into the Gazette. [Ibid.] 70: Zounds! to be bankrupt [...] Oh, my smashing will fly about like wildfire.at smash, v.1
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 32: Let me get off these trappings – the Londoner will smoke me.at smoke, v.1
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 55: Your friend [...] left it [i.e. a legacy] to you, and the old sly thief smushed it.at smush, v.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 35: Oh, Toby’s the boy to tickle them.at tickle, v.
Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 61: By this time he’s safe. I think I’ve given him a tickler.at tickler, n.
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