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[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 345: ‘Listen to him,’ exclaimed Jemima, aghast, ‘lor’ a mussy!’.
at lor-a-massy/-mussy!, excl.
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 338: Say, that you’re a regular out-and-out good fellow, and that I’m a ----d ass.
at ass, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 97: I did not recognise you one bit, till you pulled off the barnacles.
at barnacles, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 277: She had been growing decidedly blue. Not only had she, under Bray’s auspices, published a series of papers in Blunt’s Magazine, but she had positively written a child’s book.
at blue, adj.4
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 476: He has backed the Dodona colt for the Derby, and has got a heavier book on the race than he likes.
at book, n.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 204: He’s handsomer than you are; if you don’t mind your play, he’ll bowl you out.
at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel Ch. xxxiii: I was forced to offer him a seat in the cab, but he coolly replied, ‘No, thank ye... I’ll sit beside cabby’ [F&H].
at cabby, n.1
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 13: He made a noise at me in French, or some other wicked foreigneering lingo.
at foreigneering cove, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 340: This gal was a nigger – reg’lar darkie – Black-hide Susan, Tom used to call her.
at darkie, n.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 40: When you do make a hit, drop your man if possible; it settles him, and frightens the rest.
at drop, v.3
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 97: They are all more or less drunk, by the fishy expression of their optics.
at fishy, adj.1
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 85: Now, if that picture of ugliness turns out an eastern traveller we’re gone ’coons.
at gone coon (n.) under gone, adj.1
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 118: Oh, if you are positively such a Hottentot as to dislike it.
at Hottentot, n.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel Ch. xxxiv: ‘Then my answer must mainly depend on the exact height of the principles.’ ‘On the how much?’ inquired Frere, considerably mystified.
at how much?, excl.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 116: It puts one too much in mind of ‘jolly dogs,’ or ‘odd fish’.
at odd fish (n.) under odd, adj.
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 32: Some of the fools about here wanted me to put up for the country if he popped off.
at pop off, v.1
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 97: They are all more or less drunk, by the fishy expression of their optics.
at optic, n.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 466: Country air suits you better than the pea-soup-coloured atmosphere of London.
at peasouper, n.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 255: The old Gineral’s pluckey enough for anything, but his legs ain’t so young as they used to be.
at plucky, adj.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 310: Old Girkin died worth a plum.
at worth a plum (adj.) under plum, n.2
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 32: Some of the fools about here wanted me to put up for the country if he popped off, but I am not going to thrust my neck into the collar to please any of them.
at put up, v.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 143: It ain’t the first time as you’ve handled the ribbons by a good many, I should say, sir.
at ribbon, n.2
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 27: Richard Frere’s a right good fellow.
at right, adv.
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 336: He was more than half screwed when he left the dinner-table.
at half-screwed (adj.) under screwed, adj.
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 39: ‘We are safe for a bit of a shindy, no doubt,’ was the cool reply.
at shindy, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Lewis Arundel 147: You’ve given ’em a pretty tidy warming though, sir.
at tidy, adj.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 76: I have a sort of tiger [...] who is a first-rate liar – most excellent useful boy.
at tiger, n.
[UK] F.E. Smedley Lewis Arundel 343: Is this your trap? [...] what an awkward thing to get into.
at trap, n.2
[UK] K. Roberts Arundel 153: There’ll be a kit and caboodle of our people waiting to set out.
at whole kit and caboodle (n.) under whole kit, n.
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