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Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 62: An antiquated Abigail, dressed in her lady’s cast clothes.at abigail, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 62: An antiquated Abigail, dressed in her lady’s cast clothes. Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 4: I never knew his judgment fail, but in flying from his bread and butter on this occasion.at bread and butter, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 27: Would you go for to offer for to arguefy me out of my senses?at argufy, v.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 138: He damns all the other writers of the age [...] One is a blunderbuss, as being a native of Ireland; another a half-starved louse of literature, from the banks of the Tweed; a third an ass, because he enjoys a pension from government.at ass, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 140: My uncle’s back was up in a moment.at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 158: I saw a dirty barrow-bunter in the street cleaning her dusty fruit with her own spittle.at barrow-bunter (n.) under barrow, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 65: Mr. Fraser proposed the following toasts, which I don’t attempt to explain: – ‘The best in Christendom’ [...] ‘The beggar’s benison’.at beggar’s benison (n.) under beggar, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 76: He was carried home with six good bottles of claret under his belt.at under one’s belt under belt, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 95: The squire, in all probability, cursed his punctuality in his heart, but he affected to talk big.at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 111: I went in the morning to a private place, along with the housemaid, and we bathed in our birth-day soot.at birthday suit, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 213: Mr. Clinker is found to be a pye-blow [sic] of our own squire, and his right name is Mr. Matthew Loyd.at by-blow, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 138: He damns all the other writers of the age [...] One is a blunderbuss, as being a native of Ireland; another a half-starved louse of literature, from the banks of the Tweed.at blunderbuss, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 55: Mr. O. Frizzle assures me he values not her portion a brass farthing.at brass farthing (n.) under brass, adj.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 138: He damns all the other writers of the age [...] a fifth, who presumed to make strictures upon one of his performances, he holds as a bug in criticism.at bug, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 65: May a’ unkindness cease betwixt John Bull and his sister Moggy.at John Bull, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 182: She was supported by the captain [...] while she cascaded in his urn.at cascade, v.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 128: I hope you have worked a reformation among them [...] and set their hearts upon better things than they can find in junkitting and caterwauling with the fellows of the country.at caterwaul, v.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 142: But i’fackins, Mr. Clinker wa’n’t long in his debt – with a good oaken sapling he dusted his doublet, for all his golden cheese toaster.at cheese toaster (n.) under cheese, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 167: The knight swore he was no such chicken, but a tough old rogue.at no chicken under chicken, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 142: My fellow-servant Umphrey Klinker bid him to be sivil, and he gave the young man a dowse in the chops.at chops, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 69: Lest you should think my scribble as tedious as Mrs. Tabby’s clack.at clack, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 78: The doctor being a shy cock, would not be caught with chaff, and flatly rejected the proposal.at shy-cock, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 193: The templar affirmed, that the poor fellow was non compos, and exhorted the justice to discharge him as a lunatic.at non compos, adj.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 76: For though my being thought capable of making her a mother might have given me some credit, the reputation of an intrigue with such a cracked pitcher does me no honour at all.at cracked pitcher (n.) under cracked, adj.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 197: D--n my eyes! there will be nothing but snivelling in the cart.at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
Humphrey Clinker 5 June 3: So saying, he retreated into his den.at den, n.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 141: He would roar, and tear, and play the dickens.at dickens, the, phr.
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 27: These are fine doings, truly [...] monstrous! incongruous!at doings, n.1
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 142: But i’fackins, Mr. Clinker wa’n’t long in his debt – with a good oaken sapling he dusted his doublet, for all his golden cheese toaster.at dust someone’s jacket (v.) under dust, v.1
Humphrey Clinker 26: Prankley, shaking his cane, bid him hold his tongue, otherwise he would dust his cassock for him.at dust someone’s jacket (v.) under dust, v.1
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