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[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 217: I always thought their great chief a great bear [...] misbehaving himself most grossly.
at bear, n.
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 218: Now every man has the same coachman-like look in his belcher and caped coat.
at belcher, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 55: You can tell her that you are safe, and married to Brown Bess.
at marry brown bess (v.) under brown bess, n.
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 34: The modern bloods have given up the respectful ceremonies which distinguished a gentleman in my time.
at blood, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 217: There was no set of men in Europe who knew how to rob more genteelly, to bubble a stranger, to bribe a jockey.
at bubble, v.1
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 195: They had [...] scornfully rejected the proposal of Ulick Brady, the ruined gentleman; who was quite unworthy, as these rustic bucks thought, of the hand of such a prodigiously wealthy heiress as their sister.
at buck, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 37: I hope to spoil this sport [...] and trust to see this sword of mine in yonder big bully’s body.
at bully, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 207: I chose to invite the landlords of the ‘Bell’ and the ‘Lion’ to crack a bottle with me.
at crack a bottle (v.) under crack, v.2
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 166: By George! Captain Berry.
at by George! (excl.) under George, n.2
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 236: I knew nothing of the vow, or indeed of the tipsy frolic which was the occasion of it; I was taken up ‘glorious,’ as the phrase has it, by my servants, and put to bed.
at glorious, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 17: I question whether any of the jemmy-jessamies of the present day would do half as much in the face of danger.
at jemmy jessamy, n.
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 168: This was very different language to that she had been in the habit of hearing from her Jemmy-Jessamy adorers.
at jemmy jessamy, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 30: Hold your noise, Mick!
at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 169: An English tallow-chandler’s heiress, with a plum to her fortune.
at plum, n.2
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 169: Pooh, pooh! youths like you easily fire and easily despond.
at pooh-pooh, phr.
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 215: If [she] in any of her tantrums or fits of haughtiness [...] ] dared to twit me.
at tantrum, n.2
[UK] Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 37: ‘He is a devil of a fellow – isn’t he, Fagan?’ ‘A regular Turk,’ answered Fagan.
at turk, n.1
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