1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 27: The young Dorans [...] derived no small enjoyment from watching what was happening within sight of their airy day-nursery.at airy, n.1
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 214: Not that Brigit didn’t resent her bruises as well as the torn-out locks of hair, rent from her young head during the course of what she described to Dinny as ‘the father and mother of a row!’.at father (and mother) of..., n.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 83: So they know not to annoy her or give any back-talk.at back-talk, n.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 161: Well, here you are again [...] turning up like a bad halfpenny!at bad halfpenny (n.) under bad, adj.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 158: Stir yourself, will ye! and bad scran to ye!at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 92: Ay, indeed, and if we haven’t enough, barging and fighting rings round her.at barge, v.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 121: Herself that’s on a great blind, those times!at blinder, n.3
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 12: Mrs Molally [...] a big, soft bubbling kind of old body.at old body (n.) under body, n.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 124: Mrs. Doran did get ‘booted out’ of the Guild Tenement House.at boot out (v.) under boot, v.1
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 155: Tim, having been roughly bidden to ‘cut his lucky out of that afore they came back,’ sloped off.at cut one’s lucky (v.) under cut, v.2
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 25: You’ll not have any truck wid that ould faggot of a wan.at faggot, n.1
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 179: Why, even the leisure that their young hearts needed [...] was being filched from them.at filch, v.1
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 109: She came back, double quick time, and she fit to be tied!at fit to be tied under fit to..., phr.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 169: Remember the first time we played tennis here? I was horribly funky.at funky, adj.2
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 142: And now let you hold your whist and not be puttin’ in your gab where it’s not wanting!at gab, n.2
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 91: But it ud be as good tell her, the first go-off; then she couldn’t go fau’t ye, after!at go-off, n.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 94: ‘Och! how poor he is! yer granny’s night cap!’ said Brigit, with scorn.at your granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 109: Troth, I wisht to goodness they never marked them! for all the Hell’s delight, and she kicked it up then.at hell’s delight(s) (n.) under hell, n.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 92: A train was coming along with some high-up Quality, directors or the like of that.at high-up, adj.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 83: That does mostly only be when she’ll have a few jolts of whiskey taken.at jolt, n.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 205: Dinny, who wasn’t killed really, only kilt – a very different thing.at kilt, adj.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 129: Well, g’lang ou’er that, ye dirty long streel of a lamp-post, yeh!at lamp-post, n.
1918 K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 91: Then she’ll hear it and as like as not ’ull leather the life out of ye for not telling her.at leather, v.