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[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 165: There was me, backing the bag o’ bones six times.
at bag of bones, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 142: R.’s got a cold or some bally rot.
at bally, adj.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 29: Oh, I say, what a day for a beanfeast!
at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 287: Two Youthful Blades enter.
at blade, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 38: He lets go of it, and it — [...] ’Its the blankey copper right full on the blankey ’elmet.
at blanky, adj.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 295: Oh, William, don’t carry on in that strine! You don’t want to make me worse, do you?
at carry on, v.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 262: Feel devilish chippy this morning somehow. Altogether off.
at chippy, adj.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 232: You shall come into the Stewards’ room afterwards, and have as many cigs. as you like.
at cig, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 86: ‘Come off the roof,’ says I.
at come off the roof! (excl.) under come off, v.1
[UK] W.P. Ridge Minor Dialogues 96: Don’t come it too thick.
at come it, v.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 19: Why, damme, sir, the electric light. The electric light in church!
at damme!, excl.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 184: Not but what if a certain young party wasn’t quite so uppish in her manner, I might have a dash at it.
at have a dash (v.) under dash, n.4
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 263: Fact of it is, out at a smoker last night, three of us, all good sorts, and had the fairest old razzle-dazzle you ever dreamt of.
at razzle-dazzle, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 166: I reckon he was born in the year dot, that ’orse was.
at year dot (n.) under dot, n.2
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 71: I sor a regular eye-opener there once, I did, about a young man and a girl, and a jealous woman.
at eye-opener, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 38: One of them pleecemen with a fice like – well, you know, like ’alf-past six.
at ...half-past six under face like..., phr.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 205: Will you kindly gi’ me ’n Irish cold.
at Fenian, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 204: Oh, shut your ’ead – shut your ’ead.
at shut one’s head (v.) under head, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 266: Him and me never seem to hit it together somehow.
at hit it, v.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 78: ‘Oh, go and eat coke,’ I says.
at go (home) and eat coke! (excl.) under home, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 300: Stow it, Cholly.
at horse, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 276: My word! I’ll bet they were a ’ot lot.
at hot, adj.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 80: I’ll tell mar about you, I will, you saucy young kipper, you!
at kipper, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 169: That’s a knock at you, you see, Charrels.
at knock, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 264: It ain’t all lavender.
at lavender, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 77: It’s a licker to me where they git ’em all from.
at licker, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 120: It was the people at it give me the needle.
at give someone the needle (v.) under needle, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 159: Ah! you’re all self, James [...] Don’t ’arp too much on number one.
at number one, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 82: She carn’t play for nuts.
at for nuts (adv.) under nuts, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 262: Feel devilish chippy this morning somehow. Altogether off.
at off, adv.1
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