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The Cockney at Home choose

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[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 198: Men are the only animals that I claim to know a thing or six about.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 167: And take my tip, cully, the beer is a bit of all right.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 190: I’d orate myself, but, as you know, this don’t happen to be my day for actin’ the silly goat.
at act the (giddy) goat, v.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 68: ‘O, Pearce, I feel all over alike,’ Soph says to me, with a sort o’ catch in her throat. ‘O, Soph!’ I says, ‘so do I!’.
at all-overish, adj.2
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 74: ‘Right y’are!’ he said.
at right you are!, excl.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 67: And we all drinks together as happy as moths in a best blanket.
at ...a flea at a dog-show under happy as..., adj.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 137: Young Pridlets said, ‘I don’t agree wi’ you’, ’an made the ole man as ’appy as a sand-bag’.
at ...a clam under happy as..., adj.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 198: My great-aunt, but I do find ’em!
at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 66: Her back was up in a tick.
at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 195: And again I’ve known young fillies – lovely as a sovereign’s worth o’ change paid out in error for half a bar.
at half a bar (n.) under bar, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 87: She’s so full o’ fun. So witty. She made me laugh like billy-oh.
at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 198: Stay and have just one binder wi’ yours truly.
at binder, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 63: There was little Soph, a reg’lar bit o’ fancy goods.
at bit of goods, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 61: You see, Soph was a lively bit o’ frock.
at bit of frock (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 67: ‘Strike me perpendicular!’ he says, a-takin’ off his coat all in a flare and fluster, and workin’ hisself up into a blind white paddy.
at blind, adj.2
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 69: ‘You’ll pardon me, young fellow-me-lad, but I’ve bin’ comin’ a bloomer over the broomstick!’ ‘Weddin’?’ says he.
at bloomer, n.2
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 69: Blow me, Bill, but I never see sech a stick-in-the-mud as you!
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 135: ‘I’ll give you woe,’ she says, an’ buries me in my bonce – I mean my ’at.
at bonce, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 64: She’d been doin’ a huff of a boo.
at boo-hoo, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 163: Don’t come hot-step out of a boozer an’ reckon as cloves is goin’ to give you a odour o’ sanctity.
at boozer, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 253: He called me a boss-eyed bounder!
at boss-eyed, adj.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 279: ‘Can’t draw my money,’ he said. ‘Lost my brief!’.
at brief, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 69: You’ll pardon me, young fellow-me-lad, but I’ve bin’ comin’ a bloomer over the broomstick!’ ‘Weddin’?’ says he.
at broomstick marriage, n.
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 21: Understands ’most anything, young bugle-nose does.
at bugle, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 104: And I suppose [...] you used up all your manners, and that’s why you got the bullet.
at get the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 165: Bai Jove! I’ll bung you over the price o’ a wet.
at bung, v.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 52: I bungs him half a dollar to pay.
at bung, v.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 163: So the bung says, ‘Try an onion’.
at bung, n.2
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 63: Why don’t yer keep still [...] an’ let me walk round yer, bust yer?
at bust, v.1
[UK] E. Pugh Cockney At Home 144: You better buzz off – quick!
at buzz off, v.
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