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[Scot] Edinburgh Mag. Nov. 328/2: These wom,en were more men than our Jemmy-Jessamy countrymen.
at jemmy jessamy, adj.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. Feb. 532: I make a long arm from this side the Humber, and hope one as long from the Forth will be stretched out to meet it.
at make a long arm (v.) under arm, n.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Dec. 636/1: They [i.e. the poor] seem really to have been set up as a sort of target for ingenuity to try its hand upon [...] from Papin, the Bone Digester, down to Cobbett, the Bone Grubber.
at bone-grubber (n.) under bone, n.1
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. May 540/1: I’ll be dashed if I gan another step for less ’an oaf .
at dash, v.1
[Scot] Edinburgh Mag. Mar. 306: He is a man of truth and honour, and as well deserving of belief in what he states, as any erratic knight of the pencil that ever painted panoramas, or manufactured quartos.
at ...the pencil under knight of the..., n.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. Apr. 441/2: Level low, and send him to bed with a lead pill in his stomach.
at lead pill (n.) under lead, n.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. Feb. 233/2: Their Saturdays commons of scrap-pie and stick-jaw .
at stick-jaw (n.) under stick, v.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Oct. 571/2: I know not whether he be bard or beggar; though I believe both, ever since Adam was an oakum-boy in Chatham dock-yard, have been considered synonymous.
at when Adam was an oakum boy (in Chatham) under Adam, n.
[Scot] ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ XLIV in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. June 794: I was not speaking to you, my old flower of Aldgate.
at old flower (n.) under old, adj.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Feb. 229/2: As to your nonsense about pistols and all that, it's all my eye and my elbow.
at all my eye and my elbow under all my eye, phr.
[Scot] ‘Juggling Johnny’ in Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 786: Oh! my cogging, cozening Johnny, / My shifting, shirking, shufling Johnny.
at cog, v.
[Scot] ‘Juggling Johnny’ in Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 785: Survey the juggling crew, ‘From China to Peru’ / There’s none like you, my juggling Johnny.
at crew, n.
[Scot] ‘Juggling Johnny’ in Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 785: My jinking, slinking, sly-boots Johnny / You’re a great charlatan.
at jink, v.
[Scot] ‘Juggling Johnny’ in Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 786: You may button up your fob / Against the swell-mob, / But not against a job of my juggling Johnny.
at job, n.2
[Scot] ‘Juggling Johnny’ in Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 785: My nimming, trimming Johnny.
at trim, v.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. XLVII 55/2: What the devil d’you call ’em?
at what the devil...?, phr.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. Feb. 154/1: You will find not one particle of difference between the manners, education, and modes of thought of Miss Emily Snobgrace, the banker's daughter in the one, and Miss Clara Chinkers, the banker’s daughter in the other.
at chinkers, n.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Feb. 238/2: The Foreigneering Heavy Swell has much more spirit, talent, and manner, than the home-grown article.
at foreigneering cove, n.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Aug. 194/1: ‘If this oolta-poolta continues in my apartments, I must speak to Captain Williamson about it!’.
at oolta-poolta, n.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag LXXXIX 39: To be lost, as it were, in heavenly thoughts, and then all at once to be aroused by such a thief-like clamour for baksheesh.
at baksheesh, n.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Sept. 366/2: Quin [...] napped a tinger on the top part of his brain-canister from Norton’s left.
at brain-canister (n.) under brain, n.1
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Nov. 593: [headline] Cambria and Cottonopolis.
at Cottonopolis (n.) under cotton, n.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Aug. 186/2: ‘I shall save the resident Sahib, and turn the plots of the Begum ulta pulta (upside down)’.
at oolta-poolta, adj.
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 178 410/1: When a thing does come up trumps at last, he will have his chance.
at come up trumps (v.) under come up, v.1
[Scot] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. 239 311/2: I had no idea you were such a coiny cove!
at coiny cove (n.) under coiny, adj.
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