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[Scot] W. Scott Pirate II 293: Hold your peace, dear Dick, best of bully-backs, be silent.
at bully back, n.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate II 296: Why, he has sucked the monkey so long and so often [...] that the best of him is buff’d.
at buffed, adj.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate (1822) III 281: B-- me, Derrick, if I like these two daffadandilly young fellows; they are not the true breed.
at daffadandilly, adj.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate (1822) II 81: Are you advised what death he died of? [...] for I have heard that it was of a tight neck-collar – a hempen fever.
at hempen fever (n.) under hempen, adj.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate (1822) III 279: I will mutiny none, and stap my vitals if any of you shall.
at stap my vitals!, excl.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate I 79: What if this house be strewed in ruins before morning – where would be the world’s want in the crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited?
at pinch-commons (n.) under pinch, v.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate II 295: A nice tight-going bit of a pinnace, that is a consort of this chase of the Captain’s.
at pinnace, n.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate II 288: Even Dick Fletcher rides rusty on me now and then.
at ride rusty (v.) under ride, v.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate (1893) 418: Regaling themselves with a can of rumbo .
at rumbo, n.2
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate II 296: Why, he has sucked the monkey so long and so often [...] that the best of him is buff’d.
at suck the monkey (v.) under suck, v.1
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate (1822) III 270: Where will you find so tight a sea-boat [...] manned as she is with a set of tearing lads.
at tearing, adj.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate II 330: Since an alias has such virtue, poor Dick Fletcher might have come off as Timothy Tugmutton.
at tug-mutton (n.) under tug, v.
[Scot] Scott Pirate III 259: [note] [He] attended the Rose Coffee-house regularly, went to the theatre every night, told mercilessly long stories about the Spanish main, controled reckonings, and bullied waiters, and was generally known by the name of Captain Bounce.
at Captain Bounce (n.) under captain, n.
[Scot] W. Scott Pirate (1863) 31: Were I not to take better care of the wood than you, brother, there would soon be no more wood about the town than the barber’s block that’s on your own shoulders.
at barber’s block (n.) under barber, n.1
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