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[US] National Observer 13 Dec. 88 col. 2: But buttons tarnish, hot gospelling palls, the eating-up of white men is in strictest consonance with regal tradition and the regal habit [F&H].
at eat up, v.
[US] National Observer 14 Feb. 332: But does Mr. Everard seriously pretend... he was contemplating the rivalry of the two in a gigantic pot-hunting ‘competeetion’? [F&H].
at pot-hunter, n.2
[US] National Observer 27 Feb. 378: Look at my pearlies, kool my ’ed of ’air [F&H].
at kool, v.
[US] National Observer 27 Feb. 378: Look at my pearlies, kool my ’ed of ’air [F&H].
at pearlies, n.
[US] National Observer 27 Feb. 378: Give me a snug little set-to down in Whitechapel: Nobody there can prop you in the eye! [F&H].
at prop, v.1
[US] National Observer 20 Feb. 352/1: Though the morals were rocky [...] the society was very good [F&H].
at rocky, adj.
[US] National Observer 20 Aug. 356/1: They could be induced to ‘dismiss’ only by an impassioned cry of ‘scat-up!’ [F&H].
at scat, v.1
[US] National Observer 25 Feb. ix 358: ‘Pay me an infinitesimal sum, Lord Winchilsea says (in effect) to Hodge, ‘and you shall have a weekly newspaper for nothing’ [F&H].
at hodge, n.
[US] National Observer 3 Feb. n.p.: A male host may quite casually tell a female American house guest that he will ‘knock you up at 7:30 tomorrow morning.’ The term, of course, conveys nothing more than a rapping at the door until one is awakened.
at knock up, v.
[US] National Observer 1 June 12: Since gigging the girls about libspeak [...] I have been denounced as a chauvinist.
at gig, v.4
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