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[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act II: I’m bate out – bate out entirely.
at beat, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: By yiminy crickens, Ay calabrate dat!
at jiminy cricket!, excl.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: I ain’t seen Chris in a dog’s age.
at dog’s age (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: I’m wise to what’s in back of your nut, Dutchy.
at Dutchy, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: Easy there! [...] You old goat!
at goat, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act III: A woman is the same as others you’d meet in any hooker-shanty in port, with red gowns on them and paint on their grinning mugs.
at hooker, n.3
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: Well, I’ll tell you straight, kiddo.
at kiddo, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: Gee, I sure need that rest! I’m knocked out.
at knocked out, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: You’re an old mush!
at mush, n.4
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: On board your barge, you mean? Nix for mine!
at nix, adv.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act II: We’d all ought to be with Davy Jones [...] we’d be being scoffed by the fishes this minute!
at scoff, v.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: Gimme a scoop this time – lager and porter.
at scoop, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: (They range themselves at the bar.) Gimme a shock.
at shock, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: You got a half-snootful now.
at have a snootful (v.) under snootful, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: You’re soused to the ears, Dutchy.
at soused to the gills (adj.) under soused, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: That puts my idea of his giving me a rest up the spout.
at up the spout under spout, n.2
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act II: You’re not old Square-head’s woman.
at squarehead, n.2
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act I: johnny: (picks up the letter [...] reads very slowly) Christopher Christopherson. the postman: Square-head name.
at squarehead, adj.2
[US] E. O’Neill Anna Christie Act II: Whisht, now me daisy!
at whisht!, excl.
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