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[UK] Adventurer No. 100 n.p.: [...] I carried in my hand a little switch, which, as it has been long appendent to the character that I had just assumed, has taken the same name, and is called a jemmy [F&H].
at jemmy, n.2
[UK] Adventurer No. 12 n.p.: He placed more confidence in them, than he would in a formal prig, of whom he knew nothing but that he went every morning and evening to.
at prig, n.1
[UK] Adventurer No. 100 n.p.: The scale, however, consists of eight degrees; Greenhorn, Jemmy, Jessamy, Smart, Honest Fellow, Joyous Spirit, Buck, and Blood [F&H].
at jemmy, n.2
[UK] Adventurer No. 100 n.p.: The scale, however, consists of eight degrees; Greenhorn, Jemmy, Jessamy, Smart, Honest Fellow, Joyous Spirit, Buck, and Blood.
at jessamy, n.
[UK] Adventurer 101: Some of them had those loose kind of great-coats on, which I have heard called wrap-rascals [F&H].
at wrap-rascal (n.) under wrap, v.
[UK] Adventurer in Berguer XXV 124: The old gentleman, whose character I cannot better express than in the fashionable phrase which has been contrived to palliate false principles and dissolute manners, had been a gay man, and was well acquainted with the town.
at gay, adj.
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