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Roderick Random (1979) 17: I’ll bring him to the gang-way, and anoint him with a cat-and-nine-tails.at anoint (with birchen salve), v.
Roderick Random (1979) 17: I’ll bring him to the gang-way, and anoint him with a cat-and-nine-tails. Roderick Random 26: Here’s a sneaking dog! I always thought him a fellow without a soul, d--n me! a canting scoundrel, who has crept into business by his hypocrisy, and kissing the a-se of everybody.at kiss someone’s arse, v.
Roderick Random (1979) 187: I might with truth assert, if I durst use such a vulgar idiom, that the nation did hang an a--e at its disappointment.at hang an arse under arse, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 164: Avast avast! d--m my heart, if you clap your nippers on me, till I know wherefore!at avast!, excl.
Roderick Random (1979) 279: That he may at once deliver himself from the importunities of the mother, and the expense of her bantling.at bantling, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 348: [The glasses were] emptied in a trice, to the best in christendom.at best in Christendom, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 134: An that be all (said he) you shan’t go to the bilboes this bout.at bilbo, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 27: Zounds! What does the booby stare at?at booby, n.1
Roderick Random (1979) 72: Strap with a hideous groan observed that we had brought our pigs to a fine market.at bring one’s hogs to a fair market (v.) under bring, v.
Roderick Random (1979) 192: His mess-mates, who were making merry in the ward-room, round a table well stored with bumbo and wine.at bumbo, n.1
Roderick Random (1979) 28: You shall pay for this, you dog, you shall. – I’ll do your business.at do someone’s business (v.) under business, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 51: Hell and damnation! No man in England durst say so much. I would flea him, carbonado him!at carbonado, v.
Roderick Random (1979) 67: Laying strong injunctions on me not to appear before Mr. Cringer till I had parted with these carroty locks, which (he said) were sufficient to beget an antipathy against me.at carrotty, adj.
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(1979) 128: ‘I am not the person whose name is here mentioned; arrest me at your peril.’ – ‘Ay, ay, Madam,’ (replied the catch-pole), ‘we shall prove your identity.’.at catchpole, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 49: Speak, you old cent. per cent. fornicator. – What desperate debt are you thinking of?at cent per cent, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 331: The person of honour did not think fit to carry on the altercation any further, but seemed to chew the cud of her resentment.at chew the cud, v.
Roderick Random (1979) 10: Is not he much handsomer and better built than that great chucklehead?at chucklehead, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 331: She laboured under such a profusion of talk, that I dreaded her unruly tongue, and felt by anticipation the horrors of an eternal clack!at clack, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 53: Yes, cockatrice [...] thou knowest thou did’st spread this snare for me.at cockatrice, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 134: Harkee, my girl, how far have you over-run the constable? – I told him the debt amounted to eleven pounds.at outrun the constable, v.
Roderick Random (1979) 136: I have often sauntered between Ludgate Hill and Charing Cross a whole winter night, exposed not only to the inclemency of the weather, but likewise to the rage of hunger and thirst, without being so happy as to meet with one cully.at cully, n.1
Roderick Random (1979) 157: You and your list may be d--n’d, (said the captain, throwing it at him) I say, there shall be no sick in this ship.at damn, v.
Roderick Random (1979) 272: No, no, damme (said Bragwell) I have something else to mind than dangling after a parcel of giddy-headed girls.at dangle, v.
Roderick Random (1979) 54: Who the devil are you?at who the devil...?, phr.
Roderick Random (1979) 334: When we arrived at our dining-place, we found all the eatables in the inn bespoke by a certain nobleman [...]; and in all likelihood my mistress and her mother must have dined with Duke Humphrey, had I not [...] bribed the landlord with a glass of wine to curtail his lordship’s entertainment a couple of fowls and some bacon, which I sent with my compliments to the ladies.at dine with Duke Humphrey (v.) under dine, v.
Roderick Random (1979) 384: He expressed his satisfaction, telling me that one of his poets had lost his senses, and was confined in Bedlam, and the other was become dozed with drinking drams.at dozed, adj.
Roderick Random (1979) 73: This polite, honest, friendly, humane person, who had treated us so civilly, was no other than a rascally money-dropper.at gold-dropper, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 17: Egad, I’ll play him the salt-water trick.at egad!, excl.
Roderick Random (1979) 134: At that instant, a sea lieutenant came in, and seeing my plight, began to inquire into the circumstances of my misfortune; when this wit advised him to keep clear of me, for I was a fire-ship.at fireship, n.
Roderick Random (1979) 140: The tar [...] regaled me with a draught of flip.at flip, n.1
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