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[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 284: Look out [...] he’s shamming Abraham.
at sham abram, v.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 170: An enormous book he has made of the newspaper cuttings all in apple-pie order.
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 246: What me fake the beans, now I live this side of the fence?
at bean, n.1
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 320: Do you think you can blarney me, you young monkey?
at blarney, v.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 285: Dis child never seen such a mixallaneous biling o’ darkies as this yar.
at whole boiling lot, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 85: ‘Goose Greece!’ barked Sampson, loud, clear and sharp as an irritated watch-dog; but this bow-wow vented, he was silent as abruptly.
at bow-wow, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 246: ‘Now look at that bunch of fives,’ continued the master; and laid a hand [...] on the table.
at bunch of fives, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 186: I’ve heard Nudity is not the cheese on public occasions.
at cheese, the, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 25: You have cooked the books in time.
at cook, v.1
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 103: We shall see whether we are on the right system: and if so, we’ll dose her with youthful society in a more irrashinal forrm; conversaziones, cookeyshines, et citera.
at cookie-shine (n.) under cookie, n.1
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 16: ‘Cramming, love?’ ‘Yes that is the Oxfordish for studying.’.
at cramming, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 251: Whell, you are a downy one.
at downy, adj.1
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 178: She won’t sing two running: they have to stick a duffer in between.
at duffer, n.2
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 287: Goramighty he reared all white men to kick up a dust.
at kick up (a) dust (v.) under dust, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 274: Come, don’t you be so hard on jet; you ebony!
at ebony, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 6: There’s half a guinea for you for not being such an ijjit as the rest of the world.
at eejit, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 218: No, Doctor; I’m off my feed for once.
at off one’s feed (adj.) under feed, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 287: Darn the critter; he’s fixed my flint eternally.
at fix someone’s flint (v.) under fix, v.1
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 242: ‘Stash your gab,’ said Mr. Green, roughly.
at stow one’s gab (v.) under gab, n.2
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 287: Goramighty he reared all white men to kick up a dust.
at gor!, excl.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 92: He used to inquire very gravely, [...] ‘Do-you-see-anything-green-in this here eye?’.
at see any green (in my eye)? under green, n.1
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 218: Hang the grub; it turns my stomach.
at hang, v.1
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 287: I swan to man I may just hang up my fiddle.
at hang up one’s fiddle (v.) under hang up one’s..., v.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 25: Bankruptcy [...] is a broad road, but a crooked one: skirts the prison wall, sir, and sights the herring pond.
at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 354: Only you musn’t excite yourself. Take it easy.
at take it easy under take it, v.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 124: ‘O jiminy!’ This polite ejaculation was drawn out by the speaker’s sudden recognition of Alfred.
at jiminy!, excl.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 250: Lawk a daisy: why you be a gentleman then.
at lawks-a-mussy! (excl.) under lawks!, excl.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 178: But just you hear her sing, that is all [...] Just smiles and sits to the music-box.
at music box (n.) under music, n.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash II 132: I’m not to be trifled with: I am not to be palarvered.
at palaver, v.
[UK] C. Reade Hard Cash I 16: Ploughed is the new Oxfordish for ‘plucked’ [...] Plucked was vulgar, so now they are ploughed.
at plough, v.
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