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Tristram Shandy (1949) 74: Rot the hundred and twenty pounds, – he did not mind it a rush.at not care a rush, v.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 74: Rot the hundred and twenty pounds, – he did not mind it a rush. Tristram Shandy (1949) 368: Blood an’ ounds, shouted the corporal.at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 456: I am as sick as a horse, quoth I.at …a horse (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 126: ‘My sister, mayhap,’ quoth my uncle Toby, ‘does not choose to let a man come so near her ****.’ Make this dash, – ’tis an Aposiopesis. – Take the dash away, and write Backside, – ’tis Bawdy. – Scratch Backside out, and put in Covered-way in, ’tis a Metaphor. [Ibid.] 44: She knew no more than her backside what my father meant.at backside, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 373: Or the lords of the genitures (as they call them) have been at bo-peep, – or something has been wrong above, or below with us.at play at bo-peep (v.) under bo-peep, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 334: There was a good farcical house, large enough to hold – aye – and sublimate them, shag-rag and bob-tail, male and female, all together.at bobtail, n.1
Tristram Shandy (1949) 104: The various ways of doing it, which they have borrowed from the honourable devices which the Pentagraphic bretheren of the brush have shewn in taking copies.at brother (of the) brush (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 478: The muleteer [...] thought not of to-morrow, nor of what had gone before, or what was to follow it, provided he got but his scantling of Burgandy, and a little chit-chat along with it.at chitchat, n.1
Tristram Shandy (1949) 55: Labour stood still as he passed [...] even chuck-farthing and shuffle-cap themselves stood gaping till he had got out of sight.at chuck-farthing (n.) under chuck, v.2
Tristram Shandy (1949) 521: ’Tis all pepper, garlick, staragen, salt, and devil’s dung – by the great arch cook of cooks.at devil’s dung (n.) under devil, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 180: It is not a three-penny piece the worse; – pell mell, helter skelter, ding dong, cut and thrust.at ding-dong, adv.1
Tristram Shandy (1949) 597: And here [...] shall I be called as many blockheads, numsculs, doddypoles, dunderheads, ninnyhammers, goosecaps, jolt-heads, nicompoops, sh--t-a-beds – and other unsavory appellations.at doddypoll, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 562: The account of this is worth more, than to be wove into the fag end of the eighth volume of such a work as this.at fag end, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 479: The old mule let a f---.at fart, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 338: Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles – and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association?at faucet, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 479: By my fig! said she, swearing, I’ll go no furthur.at by my figgins! (excl.) under figgins, n.1
Tristram Shandy (1996) 276: Tutors, governors, gerund-grinders, and bear-leaders.at gerund-grinder, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 338: Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles – and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association?at pump-handle, n.
Tristram Shandy (1996) 255: A chapter of chambermaids, green-gowns, and old hats.at old hat, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 168: He was not able for his soul to make her comprehend the drift of it. – Cursed luck! said he to himself [...] for a man to be master of one of the finest chains of reasoning in nature, – and have a wife at the same time with such a head-piece, that he cannot hang up a single inference within side of it.at head-piece, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 111: Such a confused, pudding-headed, muddle-headed fellow.at pudding-headed, adj.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 479: And if I do, replied the other – they shall make a drum of my hide.at hide, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 139: I need not tell the reader, if he keeps a hobby-horse, – that a man’s hobby-horse is as tender a part as he has about him.at hobby horse, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 136: Nor have the horn-works, he speaks of, any thing in the world to do with the horn-works of cuckoldom.at horn work (n.) under horn, n.1
Tristram Shandy (1949) 597: And here [...] shall I be called as many blockheads, numsculs, doddypoles, dunderheads, ninnyhammers, goosecaps, joltheads, nicompoops, sh--t-a-beds – and other unsavory appellations.at jolterhead, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 130: Imagine to yourself, Obidiah mounted on a monster of a coach-horse.at monster, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 87: And Nick, he said, was the Devil.at Nick, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 597: And here [...] shall I be called as many blockheads, numsculs, doddypoles, dunderheads, ninny-hammers, goosecaps, jolt-heads, nincompoops, sh--t-a-beds – and other unsavory appellations.at ninnyhammer, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 578: ‘Now what can their two noddles be about?’ cried my father.at noddle, n.
Tristram Shandy (1949) 50: I keep a couple of pads myself, upon which, in their turns [...] I frequently ride out and take the air.at pad, n.1
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