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The Man o’ War’s Man choose

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[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 157: A body of men already too much engrossed [...] to care a single straw about either meat or drink.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 85: The Tottumfog reached her cruising ground, where she continued to knock about, betwen the bleak coasts of Norway and Shetland.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 7: Phoo! [...] a volunteer! That’s all in my eye!
at all my eye, phr.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 146: This same duty lies in drinking grog till all is blue.
at till all is blue, phr.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 43: No formality there you’d ever see! – / The free and azy would so amaze ye.
at free-and-easy, n.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 54: My stars and garters! the captain will be so cross [...] at my terrible absence!
at my stars and garters!, excl.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 149: Crockfort, as drunk as Chloe.
at drunk as Chloe, adj.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 115: Oliver [...] knew it was all a bam.
at bam, n.1
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 263: I’ll no stand by and hear auld Scotland bamboozled.
at bamboozle, v.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 385: Only think of two poor fellows, seated among a body of stout, boisterous bandogs, who were hooting and scouting and sneering.
at bandog, n.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 39: The hatchway’s so completely chock-a-block with [...] barber’s-clerks.
at barber’s clerk (n.) under barber, n.1
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 253: Aha, Ned, you’re completely in the basket.
at in the basket under basket, n.1
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 8: D—n me, that beats cock-fighting!
at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 53: What a shuffling, beat-the-bush knave you are.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 21: A couple of the filthiest ragamuffins Edward had ever set eyes on. On the approach of these beauties [etc.].
at beauty, n.1
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 229: I’ll not forget the great sound belting I catched.
at belting (n.) under belt, v.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 109: He’d his feet fast in the bilboes.
at bilbo, n.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 226: You had a snug billet enough of it yonder.
at billet, n.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 310: Well, Adams, [...] are you convinced at last that we have been most cursedly bitten?
at bite, v.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 346: The black jack went swiftly and merrily round.
at black jack, n.1
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 13: You’re one of the Johnnie Raws, are you? – and crying too, or blast me!
at blast, v.1
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 62: What the blazes can be more unfair.
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 145: He has been kicking us this whole blessed morning from hell to Hackney.
at blessed, adj.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 109: Them there mulatto chaps [...] take on as smartly [...] as a blue-light.
at blue light, n.1
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 67: A bumboat-woman would have done it [i.e. climb rigging] far better.
at bum-boat, n.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 80: You bog-trotting potato-eater.
at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) xi: Into my chest, holusbolus, went the fine fellow’s present.
at holus-bolus, adv.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) xi: This here clever book [i.e. Blackwood’s Mag.] is read all over the British King’s dominions.
at book, n.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 181: Botheration and turf! what is the matter wid you all now.
at botheration!, excl.
[UK] ‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 13: Never mind, my buck.
at buck, n.1
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