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Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul choose

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[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 146: It don’t frost no cake wedder it is Mark or me dat gets it.
at frost a cake, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 57: Duchess is a torrowbred, for fair, but I never taut she had de noive to toin de trick she done.
at turn a trick, v.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 49: It was all over but de picture and de coitain.
at all over bar the shouting, phr.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 23: De foist mug to come to de bat [...] was Charlie Wu Lung.
at go to bat (v.) under bat, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 75: How about de fiver? [...] De long, crisp, clean, green bean I give you?
at bean, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 23: ‘Not up to par,’ he says. ‘My queue got tangled in me niblick yesterday.’.
at below par, adj.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 99: I ’ll blow you off to a bottle of beer and a lobster.
at blow, v.2
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 67: Duchess would stop some of de tricks she woiks to touch me for all de boodle I earns or wins.
at boodle, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 23: I ’m slicing wit me brassey [...] like it was a bread knife.
at brass, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 18: I has been waltzing about in brownstone society for years, now, but dere is one ting I can’t get wise on.
at brownstone, adj.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 45: He was a chappy alongside de countesss.
at chappie, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 102: Duchess says we must chase; for if Whiskers cops us dere he’d jaw de heads off us for not knowing our places.
at chase, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 95: De con man and come-on.
at come-on, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 95: De con man and come-on.
at con-man, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 23: He skated in on clog shoes, bumps his conk on de carpet enough to give him a headache.
at conk, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 58: Duchess passes him out a swell bow what was a dead ringer for de style of bow dat Widdy gives.
at dead ringer, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 74: De ‘stuff’ is de boodle dat de gang what runs de city shakes down from de crooks; and ‘dey’ is de shaker-downs.
at shake down, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 101: Put all de sugar and milk dat ’s coming to me in me foist cup [...] for dat ’s de only part of tea dat is n’t knock-out drops to me.
at knockout drops, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 108: She cut loose from de charity game as a steady job when she was married.
at game, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 37: I ’m getting a little bit gay wit dat langwudge meself.
at gay, adj.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 42: [She] got gay in Austria and married again.
at get gay (with) (v.) under gay, adj.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 49: All de sneak woik against him was done by a man, de gazeaboo Metternich.
at gazabo, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 86: Why don’t she rig some graft she can woik [...] instead of sitting into a game where she can’t cut de cards.
at graft, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 93: [They] gives me a guff about being a valet.
at guff, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 40: Naples, a guinney district where de street-sweepers come from.
at guinea, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 6: We want no ten-up-and-eight-to-play lads; no two-to-de green boys giving us de merry ‘ha-ha,’ and parting us from our silverware.
at give someone the ha-ha (v.) under ha-ha, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 93: Why don’t you get a gent’s job, tending bar, or something high-toned, like dat?
at high-tone, adj.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 94: Even if she is French, Duchess was n’t born in Hoboken, nor yesterday.
at Hoboken, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 79: If she ’s afraid Whiskers will get hooked, why don’t Miss Fannie let Mr. Paul get hooked, and call it a draw?
at hooked, adj.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 99: De horse is on me, me dear.
at horse, n.
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