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[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 60: At the twelfth round the latter champion was all abroad [...] and had lost all presence of mind, and power of attack or defence.
at abroad, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 141: The captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon.
at chaw-bacon, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 152: He be a bad’n, sure enough.
at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 92: You’ll get no good out of ’er [...] a bad lot, I tell you, a bad lot.
at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair III 281: She [...] made some jokes suitable to the occasion and the small-beer.
at small beer, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 177: Colonel Heavytop took off three bottles of that you sent me down, under his belt the other day.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 162: Gouty, old, bald-headed, bottle-nosed Bullock Squire.
at bottlenosed, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair III 66: A little pink-eyed Jew-boy [...] led the party into the house.
at Jew boy, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 131: At college he pulled stroke-oar in the Christchurch boat, and had thrashed all the best bruisers of the ‘town’.
at bruiser, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair II 138: Get some more port, Bowls, old boy, whilst I buzz this bottle here.
at buzz, v.2
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 300: He came home to find his sisters spread in starched muslin in the drawing-room, the dowagers cackling in the back-ground.
at cackle, v.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 225: I never saw your equal, and I’ve met with some clippers in my time too.
at clipper, n.2
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 40: In a curtain lecture, I say, Mrs. Sedley took her husband to task for his cruel conduct to poor Joe.
at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 301: ‘Dammy,’ George said to a confidential friend.
at damme!, excl.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 334: She was always dangling and ogling after him.
at dangle, v.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair III 102: So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, until Macmurdo came down.
at demi-rep, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair II 354: Lord Steyne made no reply except by beating the devil’s tattoo, and biting his nails.
at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 145: The infamous dog has got every vice except hypocrisy.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair II 60: If I’m done, those two ought to fetch you something.
at done, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 145: I lay five to two, Matilda drops in a year.
at drop, v.3
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 180: I’ll have no lame duck’s daughter in my family.
at lame duck, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair III 211: Georgy made prodigious advance in the knowledge of High Dutch.
at Dutch, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair III 272: Such a miserable little room – at a third-rate house, the Elephant, up in the roof.
at elephant, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair III 109: They begged hard a bunch of hot-house grapes; but he said Sir Pitt had numbered every ‘Man Jack’ of them.
at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 319: How are you, old fellow?
at old fellow, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 25: ‘Good Gad! Amelia,’ cried the brother, in serious alarm.
at gad, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 373: The old girl has always acted like a trump to me.
at old gal, n.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair III 115: He used to be savage, and inveigh against all parsons, scholars, and the like, – declaring that they were a pack of humbugs, and quacks, that weren’t fit to get their living but by grinding Latin and Greek.
at grind, v.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair I 61: Cuff coming up full of pluck, but quite reeling and groggy, the Fig-merchant put his left as usual on his adversary’s nose.
at groggy, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Vanity Fair III 258: Seeing these nobs grubbing away has made me peckish too.
at grub, v.1
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