1844 Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 217: I always thought their great chief a great bear [...] misbehaving himself most grossly.at bear, n.
1844 Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 218: Now every man has the same coachman-like look in his belcher and caped coat.at belcher, n.1
1844 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.
1844 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
1844 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
1844 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
1844 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
1844 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
1844 Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 166: By George! Captain Berry.at by George! (excl.) under George, n.2
1844 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.
1844 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.
1844 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.
1844 Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 30: Hold your noise, Mick!at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
1844 Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 169: An English tallow-chandler’s heiress, with a plum to her fortune.at plum, n.2
1844 Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 169: Pooh, pooh! youths like you easily fire and easily despond.at pooh-pooh, phr.
1844 Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 215: If [she] in any of her tantrums or fits of haughtiness [...] ] dared to twit me.at tantrum, n.2
1844 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