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Hillingdon Hall I 280: I minds the time when steam and
gas were thought all my eye and Miss Elizabeth
Martin.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Hillingdon Hall I 280: I minds the time when steam and
gas were thought all my eye and Miss Elizabeth
Martin. Hillingdon Hall III 97: The women, charged with palmistry — bamming farmer Goosecap about a gold mine under the hill at the back of his ’ouse, while the men tried to rob his ’en roost.at bam, v.1
Hillingdon Hall II 311: A great banging hare bounced out before him.at banging, adj.
Hillingdon Hall II 82: ‘That’s ooman’s mad — full o’ beans,’ observed
Mr. Jorrocks with a shake of the head.at full of beans (adj.) under beans, n.3
Hillingdon Hall II 321: Our friend, however, was beat, and before he
got half over the next field he acknowledged it.at beat, adj.
Hillingdon Hall I 128: Never troubles to look at a woman’s face if she's clumsey and beefey about the pins.at beef to the heel(s) (adj.) under beef, n.1
Hillingdon Hall II 319: On again he went, still tripping and stumbling across the fallow, with ‘bellows to mend’ becoming more apparent at every step.at bellows to mend under bellows, n.
Hillingdon Hall I 44: Old Snarle, as you’ll have heard, has cut his stick Poor old bitch!at bitch, n.1
Hillingdon Hall II 146: His respectable appearance, his plausible tongue [...] aided by Mr. Jorrocks’s unsuspecting confidence and self-sufficiency, had afforded him opportunities that his able mind knew well how to make the most of. He had bit him.at bite, v.
Hillingdon Hall III 274: All the true and undeniable tramps [...] rose to a man, and swore we'd be blank’d if he should.at blanked, adj.
Hillingdon Hall III 29: If ever man got well ‘blessed’ by woman, it was our fat friend, Mr. Jorrocks, for carrying away the Marquis of Bray [...] just as Mrs. Flather was bringing him u to book.at bless, v.1
Hillingdon Hall I 173: The old Duke, like all blunder-headed men, being monstrously afraid lest his son should make mistakes.at blunderhead, n.
Hillingdon Hall I 138: Not but the hutch is a good ’un, comfey hutch I may say, but it don’t do, when a lady and gen’lman want to be a leetle confidential, to have a servant stuck in behind, listenin’.at booby-hutch, n.
Hillingdon Hall I 48: The great Bull niggers, that he had never seen or cared to set eyes upon.at bull, adj.1
Hillingdon Hall I 59: Bull, as you say, is a great hobstinate beast [Ibid.] 61: It will require a deal o’ sleight o’ tongue to make Bully believe you’re a workin’ for his good.at John Bull, n.1
Hillingdon Hall I 201: ‘Jest (hiccup) bazz the bottle (hiccup)!’ exclaimed Mr. Jorrocks, holding it up to the light, ‘there's (hiccup) only jest a glass a-piece (hiccup)’.at buzz, v.2
Hillingdon Hall III 50: Coachey looking more lively as
the emblazoned banner on the castle glittered in
the sun.at coachy, n.
Hillingdon Hall III 93: First [...] is the great cock offender, called ‘incorrigible rogue’ a chap wot’s too bad for anything.at cock, adj.1
Hillingdon Hall I 146: I declare its a pinery! real pines a growin’ quite nattural, instead of perched on plates, as one sees them in Common Garden.at Common Garden, n.
Hillingdon Hall I 204: The Jehus got their masters and mistresses cooped into their melon frames and
leathern inconveniences.at leathern conveniency, n.
Hillingdon Hall I 264: [of a speech] I’m a goin’ to do a bit of antiquity myself — cribbed of course, but that’s nothin’.at crib, v.1
Hillingdon Hall II 16: James was one of those desperately over-righteous, cushion-thumping, jump-Jim-Crow breed of parsons.at jump Jim Crow (v.) under Jim Crow, n.
Hillingdon Hall I 54: Not that Batsay’s werry crummy, but there’s a good lot on her.at crummy, adj.1
Hillingdon Hall II 16: James one of those desperately over-righteous, cushion-thumping, jump-Jim-Crow breed of parsons.at cushion-thumper (n.) under cushion, n.
Hillingdon Hall I 44: Old Snarle, as you’ll have heard, has cut his stick Poor old bitch!at cut (one’s) stick(s), v.
Hillingdon Hall I 285: All in three days — ‘three glorious days,’ as Monsieur Frog-eater Frenchman would say.at frog-eater, n.
Hillingdon Hall I 142: ‘Let’s see ’ow the enemy goes’. Having pulled out his great ticker and forgot to look at it [etc.].at enemy, n.
Hillingdon Hall III 228: The whole establishment were full fig to receive him.at in full fig under fig, n.3
Hillingdon Hall I 150: Well, I'd a deal rayther walk [...] with sich a sweet hen-angel as you, nor go and stuff wenison and fizzy with my Lord Dukeship.at fizzy, n.
Hillingdon Hall III 85: It was a
charge by farmer Goosecap, against some of the
independent, itinerant tribe.at goose-cap (n.) under goose, n.4
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