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The Chequers choose

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[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 37: I’m going to be out of apron-strings for a bit.
at apron-strings, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 2: A flashy article.
at article, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 186: The cob’s out of condition, and rough as a badger.
at ...a badger’s arse under rough as..., adj.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 78: I dicked a bar and a pash-crooner (I saw a sovereign and a half-crown).
at bar, n.1
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 7: He knew many ‘certainties,’ and he offered [...] to put me in the way of ‘gittin’ a bit’.
at get a bit (v.) under bit, n.1
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 53: The blank, blank swine of a blank landlord.
at blank, adj.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 19: Damn it, gal! – do you mean to say you’ve deceived your father so you might git out along of a blanked lunatic?
at blanked, adj.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 80: Blast yer slobberin’! you ain’t got no more savvey than a blank blank cow.
at blast, v.1
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 178: When I hear [...] some flabby boozer whining and ascribing his trouble to the drinkshop, I despise him.
at boozer, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 62: The Ramper said, ‘Wot cher, yer old bugaboo?’.
at bugaboo, n.1
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 78: I dicked a bar and a pash-crooner (I saw a sovereign and a half-crown).
at caroon, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 53: Missus is out charin’.
at char, v.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 114: A regular toff [...] and yet he will speak to ordinary coves without exhibiting the least pride!
at cove, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 52: Ain’t got no more than two bloomin’ dee.
at d, n.1
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 78: I dicked a bar and a pash-crooner (I saw a sovereign and a half-crown).
at dick, v.2
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 20: A hactor! The Billiters is done for. Their goose is cooked!
at done for, adj.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 88: I’ll come with you a little way. You’re dotty a bit.
at dotty, adj.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 80: Garn, you farthin’ face! Shet your neck.
at farthing-face (n.) under farthing, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 79: Then it flashed on me. ‘This beauty has heard of me from the Suffolk gipsies.’.
at flash on (v.) under flash, v.3
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 80: Garn, you farthin’ face! Shet your neck.
at go on!, excl.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 80: Garn, you farthin’ face! Shet your neck.
at shut one’s head (v.) under head, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 86: Mother up with your heavy wet and try suthin’ short.
at heavy wet, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 187: You’re a red-hot member!
at red-hot, adj.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 183: One of the jiggers says one thing, and one of them says another thing.
at jigger, n.1
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 80: There ain’t a bloke round here as has a judy wot’ll go where I goes and hand over the wongur.
at judy, n.1
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 80: I done the best as I knew for you, and there ain’t a bloke around as has a judy [F&H].
at judy, n.1
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 84: Four of us were wondering how they could rob the fifth, and that fifth resolved [...] to use his knuckle-duster promptly.
at knuckleduster, n.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 85: The bastard gipsy smiled in a ‘leary’ fashion.
at leery, adj.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 186: Strike me, I could sweep the blank chimney with you!
at strike me! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[UK] J. Runciman Chequers 143: At one you mount the mill again.
at mill, n.1
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