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Rob Roy (1883) 136: It’s all a bam, ma’am – all a bamboozle and a bite.at bam, n.1
Rob Roy (1883) 136: It’s all a bam, ma’am – all a bamboozle and a bite. Rob Roy (1883) 117: Mr. Jobson talks big about reporting his principal to the Secretary of State.at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
Rob Roy (1883) 136: It’s all a bam, ma’am – all a bamboozle and a bite.at bite, n.1
Rob Roy (1883) 320: We are bits o’ Glasgow bodies, if it please your honour.at body, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 114: Were he caught playing booty, he would be disarmed, and probably dismounted.at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
Rob Roy (1883) 261: Conscience! if I am na clean bumbaised – you, ye cheat-the-wuddy rogue.at bumbaste, v.
Rob Roy (1883) 123: Gulping down the rest of his dissatisfaction in a huge bumper of claret.at bumper, n.2
Rob Roy (1883) 136: The old miserly clod-breaker called me pettifogger.at clod-breaker (n.) under clod, n.1
Rob Roy (1883) 163: It’s hard I should get raps over the costard.at costard, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 257: I’ll speak to these gentlemen in a gliffing – But first I maun hae a crack wi’ an auld acquaintance here.at crack, n.1
Rob Roy (1883) 315: Cribs there were of different dimensions beside the walls, formed, some of fractured boards, some of shattered wicker-work or plaited boughs, in which slumbered the family of the house.at crib, n.1
Rob Roy (1883) 334: ‘Look at me, you Highland dog,’ said the officer.at dog, n.2
Rob Roy (1883) 320: I had muckle reason to doubt frae the doings o’ your house.at doings, n.1
Rob Roy (1883) 429: Syddall is an auld sneck-drawer.at sneck drawer, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 125: He had been stopped on a solitary spot and eased of his beloved travelling-companion, the portmanteau, by two men. [Ibid.] 128: The law’s hard – very severe – hanged poor Jack Winterfield at York [...] all for easing a fat west-country grazier of the price of a few beasts.at ease, v.1
Rob Roy (1883) 415: I’ll ne’er fash mysell, not lose my liking for sae feckless a matter.at fash, v.
Rob Roy (1883) 319: Ye may tak a bit o’ the plaid – figh! she smells like a singit sheep’s head!at faugh!, excl.
Rob Roy (1883) 292: Many hundreds o’ them come down to the borders of the low country, where there’s gear to grip, and live by stealing.at gear, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 81: Gentlemen of the pad, as they were then termed.at gentleman of the pad (n.) under gentleman of..., n.
Rob Roy (1883) 424: Pooh! pooh! his Excellency and his Lordship’s all a humbug now, you know – mere St. Germains titles.at humbug, n.
Rob Roy (1839) 57: Muckle wad the provost and bailies o’ Glasgow gie to hae him sitting with iron garters to his hose within their tolbooth, that now stands wi’ his legs as free as the red-deer’s.at iron garters (n.) under iron, adj.
Rob Roy (1883) 321: To see how a trot-cosey and a joseph can disguise a man.at Joseph, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 137: ‘I don’t value his language, Miss,’ said the clerk [...] ‘besides, impertinent is not an actionable word; but pettifogger is slander in the highest degree.’.at language, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 292: Mony hundreds o’ them come down to the borders of the low country, where there’s gear to grip, and live by stealing, reiving, lifting cows.at lift, v.
Rob Roy (1883) 166: ‘Never mind these lads laughing, nevoy,’ he continued.at nevvy, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 77: The polite and accomplished adventurer, who nicked you out of your money at White’s.at nick, v.1
Rob Roy (1883) 323: There are night-hawks abroad.at nighthawk, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 419: Dick broke his neck [...] in an attempt to show off a foundered blood-mare which he wished to palm off upon a Manchester merchant.at palm, v.
Rob Roy (1883) 138: It is hard that persons of birth and rank and estate should be subjected to the official impertinence of such a paltry pickthank.at pickthank, n.
Rob Roy (1883) 305: Thae English pock-puddings in the Tower o’ Lunnon.at pock-pudding, n.
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