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[UK] G.A. Sala A Trip to Barbary 141: But he was no stupid savage like that sea-sick bullet-head of a lay brother.
at bullet-head, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala A Trip to Barbary 150: Poor Albert Smith, than whom, with all his occasional bumptiousness, an honester and more clear-sighted hater of snobbery and shams never lived.
at bumptious, adj.
[UK] G.A. Sala A Trip to Barbary 252: I fancied that the seven hundred beggars clapped up in gaol had been simultaneously released [...] But the mendicants are still in ‘chokee’.
at chokey, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Trip to Barbary 147: I hope the bays of Cockneydom will not be withheld from him.
at -dom, sfx
[UK] G.A. Sala A Trip to Barbary 33: The Arab abhors statistics. He won’t be tabulated if he could help it, and were you to go to Algeria, Doctor Colenso, you would find a deeply rooted objection among the people to the reckoning, or footing-up, as the Americans call it, of anything animate or inanimate.
at foot up (v.) under foot, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala A Trip to Barbary 136: Pudding-head may be either a Papist or a ‘Swaddler’.
at pudding-head, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Trip to Barbary 267: With Pompey, and Quashie [...] he perambulates the streets, thumping the tom-tom.
at quashie, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala A Trip to Barbary 136: Pudding-head may be either a Papist or a ‘Swaddler’.
at swaddler, n.1
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