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Paul Periwinkle 486: I don’t care one rush about it.at not care a rush, v.
Paul Periwinkle 486: I don’t care one rush about it. Paul Periwinkle 548: ‘My eye and Betty Martin!’ returned the sailor.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Paul Periwinkle 168: Don’t cut your low jibes on me, you pettifogging, six-and-eightpenny tapeworm.at six-and-eightpenny, adj.
Paul Periwinkle 346: While you two are argufying the point, Captain Simpson, these poor devils below’ll be smothered.at argufy, v.
Paul Periwinkle 352: Avast with your plaguy nonsense, Spanker.at avast!, excl.
Paul Periwinkle 41: His hat was like himself – wide awake.at wide-awake, n.
Paul Periwinkle 509: I hope [...] to have every one of these fellows, from Alibi downwards, laid upon their beam-ends.at beam-ends, n.
Paul Periwinkle 400: ‘Bilk – Cheat – Runaway’ and other terms of endearment that seem especially to belong to the vocabulary of ’pike men.at bilk, n.
Paul Periwinkle 476: I say, blackee, what do you mean by that rigmarole of yours, about niggers’ heads?at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
Paul Periwinkle 358: Blister their eyes, says I.at blister, v.
Paul Periwinkle 520: He ran against as fair a specimen of John Bullism as any man could reasonably expect to meet at such a distance from the original manufactury.at John Bull, adj.1
Paul Periwinkle 167: I know nothing of your plans, your projects, or your person; and from your conversation and appearance, would as soon go in a cart to Tyburn with a pupil of Jonathan Wild’s, as move a single step in any confederation with yourself.at cart, n.1
Paul Periwinkle 475: None of your clack, mister Jupiter Ammon, or I’ll break your nigger head.at clack, n.
Paul Periwinkle 72: I think a ‘bird’s-eye’ view may be best of such a long clay.at clay, n.
Paul Periwinkle 52: These clodpoles here think there’s as little end to their knowledge of flesh, as there is to the flesh that clogs their knowledge.at clodpoll, n.
Paul Periwinkle 326: ‘Well my old cock-a-wax,’ said the English seaman.at cock-a-wax (n.) under cock, n.3
Paul Periwinkle 62: Cocky, will you open the pleadings?at cocky, n.1
Paul Periwinkle 524: D--n me, that’s what I call taking it cool.at take it cool (v.) under cool, adv.
Paul Periwinkle 240: I’m blowed if we shan’t be measured over the counter, and no mistake about that.at measure over the counter, v.
Paul Periwinkle 427: ‘Most likely he’s got a pair of cracks in that pocket.’ ‘Cracks, gentlemen! what do you mean?’ ‘What do we mean? you never heard pistols called cracks before.’.at crack, n.1
Paul Periwinkle 222: Maybe you had a spite against the little craft for some slight or other in courting her.at craft, n.1
Paul Periwinkle 327: Don’t you think we should be the presarvers of the lives of you and your brave Crappos what are drinking their grog below?at crappo, n.
Paul Periwinkle 168: Don’t cut your low jibes on me, you pettifogging, six-and-eightpenny tapeworm.at cut, v.1
Paul Periwinkle 289: If that young gentleman doesn’t pay a visit to Davy Jones’s dockyard for repairs, I know nothing about the matter.at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
Paul Periwinkle 39: Tut, man, don’t be so dirty particular.at dirty, adv.
Paul Periwinkle 335: They don’t believe in nothing to come after this life [...] why when we get doubled up, or shoved by like an old blanket, there’s an after-reckoning to come.at get doubled up (v.) under double up, v.2
Paul Periwinkle 184: Now, you little gallipot.at gallipot, n.
Paul Periwinkle 168: ‘Guying you, you rascal! what’s that? what’s guying you?’ ‘Why, gumming me, to be sure; it’s all the same.’.at guy, v.1
Paul Periwinkle 236: That respectable young gentleman [...] is squealing out in the most outrageous way; and if they should catch a tone of his pipe, you’ll be kind enough to understand it’s all Hookey Walker with Jack Spratt; – and Jack made a sign on his neck, which may in brief be translated as the sign of the gibbet.at hookey (walker), n.
Paul Periwinkle 285: You lubber, suppose they knocked you into the middle of next month.at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
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