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Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 177: Ho! ho! lazyboots! [...] t’ain’t good for your wholesome to be so all-fired industrious!at all-fired, adv.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 177: Ho! ho! lazyboots! [...] t’ain’t good for your wholesome to be so all-fired industrious! Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 111: Ho! ho! tolderol! tolderol! chassez across – swing corners – slambang! pigeon-wing!at slam-bang, adv.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 46: Go it strong – that’s the way to scatter the blue devils.at blue devils, n.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 147: You’d better jine the teetotallers to-morrow [...] any man that acts so queer, must be blue.at blue, adj.2
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 103: The boy is a booby [...] why can’t you stand up straight and speak out?at booby, n.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 116: ‘Why can’t a man buck up?’ [...] ‘You must make an effort, Shiverton.’.at buck up, v.2
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 72: Nobody likes to be chiselled.at chisel, v.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 10: How does he manage to stop his confounded clack long enough to get to sleep.at clack, n.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 46: ‘You should go it,’ remarked Spifflikens, ‘go it strong – that’s the way to scatter the blue devils: go it strong.’.at come it strong (v.) under come it, v.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities ‘Corner Loungers’ [title]. [Ibid.] 167: That disinterested body of men and boys who lounge at the corners of the way in a great metropolis prop up lamp-posts.at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 125: If a man be crank and lack ballast, he is swamped by the prosperous gale.at crank, adj.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 72: Tom was opposed to the practice of clustering about a corner and selling newspapers in a flock [...] ‘to be cutting up, so fashion, all in a jam, why people go on t’other side of the way, and retailing’s done for’.at cut up, v.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 149: A werry flat sort of a fish, that chap is.at flat fish (n.) under flat, adj.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 159: She ‘flopped’ her little husband [...] with a shovel applied in its latitude, ‘broadside on’.at flop, v.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 149: Yes, that’s it – I am – I am a gudgeon!at gudgeon, n.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 163: I know’d he’d hook your money!at hook, v.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 118: I wish I was that limping fellow with a bad cold, crying oysters – he don’t wear white kids.at kid, n.3
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 177: [to a ‘corner lounger’] They sing out like good fellers, ‘Eh, waggybone! – Ho! ho! lazyboots! – hellow, loafer!’.at lazyboots (n.) under lazy, adj.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 178: The very gals bump agin him and say ‘get out of the way, loaf!’.at loaf, n.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 52: His Havanas are converted into ‘long nines’.at long nine (n.) under long, adj.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 131: All superiors are ‘old men,’ in modern phraseology, and our standing is measured by rank, not years.at old man, n.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 14: Young gentlemen that have got the mitten, or young gentlemen who think they are going to get the mitten.at get the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 110: They frighten me like Old Scratch.at old Scratch (n.) under old, adj.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 177: What’s your situation when you do go home? There’s the old man, and there’s the old voman and the rest of them, hurtin’ you feelins as bad as if they were killin’ kittens with brickbats.at old woman, n.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 178: Common people, Billy – low, ornery, common people.at ornery, adj.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 161: Not only had he achieved victory for his ‘pard’ners’ and gained the refreshment tickets [...] he had also secured several bets.at pard, n.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 8: She did not say ‘scat’ – she knew it was Pete, in the dark.at scat, v.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 137: But you cracked Tompkins up, didn’t you, and Tompkins pretends to be great shakes, don’t he?at great shakes (n.) under shake, n.1
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 18: Well, bang my kerkus for a drum [...] if this ’ere isn’t that ’ere singing chap agin. I knows him by his mulberry nose. He’s on a shindy somewhere or other every night.at shindy, n.
Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 26: ‘Black Maria, sissy,’ said curly-headed Tom.at sis, n.
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