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Picked Up in the Streets 23: ‘I was speaking to that gentleman, sir,’ he said, and hastily ‘absquatulated’.at absquatulate, v.
Picked Up in the Streets 23: ‘I was speaking to that gentleman, sir,’ he said, and hastily ‘absquatulated’. Picked Up in the Streets 151: Brandishing his broom like a broadsword, he made fierce dot-and-go-one charges on the foe.at dot and go one, v.
Picked Up in the Streets 15: Did you notice [...] the man with the white wide-awake that was trying to pick a quarrel?at wide-awake, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 230: I’m fair beat to make out what it is.at beat, adj.
Picked Up in the Streets 72: We don’t fight about our rounds; our fighting days are pretty well over before we take to bone-grubbing.at bone-grubber (n.) under bone, n.1
Picked Up in the Streets 29: A worn-out little square piano seemed to shriek complaint against [...] its seedy bottle-nosed thumper.at bottlenosed, adj.
Picked Up in the Streets 53: I was his pupil, not his Buttons.at buttons, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 289: Well, you ain’t a chicken.at chicken, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 230: Once I heard her comin’ the religious dodge over two old ladies she’d cornered in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.at come the..., v.
Picked Up in the Streets 54: It was from Harwich I cut.at cut, v.2
Picked Up in the Streets 15: Did you notice [...] the man with the white wide-awake that was trying to pick a quarrel? [...] He’s one of the ’cutest thieves we have.at cute, adj.
Picked Up in the Streets 140: My gold-fish [...] I buys. Well, I have bought ’em at a pinch in the Dials, but it wouldn’t pay if I was allus to buy ’em there.at Dials, the, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 125: I ain’t got nuffink to leave at the dolly-shop.at dollyshop, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 132: Jack, half-muddled with the beer on which he had spent his copper doucers.at doucer, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 20: We went next into a ‘penny gaff.’ Two floors of a house had been knocked into one to form a concert-room.at gaff, n.1
Picked Up in the Streets 74: [a bone-grubber] I’ve been grubbing for many a year now.at grub, v.1
Picked Up in the Streets 58: It saves me buying grub.at grub, n.2
Picked Up in the Streets 49: Many mere ‘chits of children,’ girls as well as boys, each on his or her ‘own hook,’ without any home but such a crowded den as this.at on one’s own hook under hook, n.1
Picked Up in the Streets 229: It beats me, it do, how they can take to Jacky.at jacky, n.1
Picked Up in the Streets 8: He took from his pocket a pair of ‘darbies,’ [...] and slipped them on his fist like ‘knuckle-dusters’.at knuckleduster, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 153: Mostly we went to the Lane a-Sundays, Poll an’ me.at Lane, the, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 194: He was an assistant in a chemist’s shop [...] sometimes they called him ‘Lob-lolly boy’.at loblolly boy (n.) under loblolly, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 123: Who’s to know the slops did’nt nobble the or’nges theirselves?at nobble, v.2
Picked Up in the Streets 9: The captive was a good deal bigger than his captor, and had sworn to ‘put his light out’.at put out, v.
Picked Up in the Streets 231: Mother Brimstone did the pious patter as well as any parson.at patter, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 39: She scoops out prepared opium [...] humours the pill with the spatula end of another needle to get it to kindle.at pill, n.
Picked Up in the Streets 226: The poor young warmint tried to prig your wipe.at prig, v.2
Picked Up in the Streets 231: Mother Brimstone sartinly did slope pretty quick when she caught sight o’ me.at slope, v.2
Picked Up in the Streets 245: I’ve bought specks and sold ’em again at a profit.at speck, n.1
Picked Up in the Streets 17: When they see a sailor a bit sprung coming along, one of them puts out his foot, and when the spooney chap stumbles, the tother [...] grabs his watch.at spoony, adj.
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