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Mr Sprouts, His Opinions choose

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[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 40: All the busseys twigged us, too, and begun throwin’ their jeers out, till I felt as mad as a hatter.
at ...a hatter under mad as..., adj.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 5: I wore a high starched collar and a little tuppenny-’a’penny white rag twisted round my neck instead of the old belcher.
at belcher, n.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 29: I [...] gives the kabby ’arf-a-krown.
at cabby, n.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 21: ‘It’s five shillings to pay, sir.’ ‘Why, yer shabby cannibal,’ ses I.
at cannibal, n.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 40: A boy twigged us and give us a chyike [...] and all the busseys twigged us, too, and began throwing their jeers out.
at chi-ike, n.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 66: I never see such a chikking-killing in my life.
at chi-ike, v.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 101: Look at the Chinee popilation theirselves, and the poor rag, tag, and bob-tail kreeturs that pretends to govern ’em.
at Chinee, adj.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 28: It was Betsey ’avin a bit of a fite jest for fun like with a coaly’s wife.
at coalie, n.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 29: He pulls off a werry dickey sort o’ tile.
at dicky, adj.2
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 33: Then they all let one another ’ave it ding dong — ’ammer an’ tongs, o’ both sides.
at ding-dong, adv.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 3: I was obliged to take a drop o’ summat.
at drop, n.4
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 40: ‘Wy, yer old hidjut,’ ses I.
at eejit, n.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 7: The hair o’ most o’ the great gabies was parted down the middle.
at gaby, n.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 25: He rattled it out a good ’un.
at good ’un, n.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 22: ‘Corfee yer gran’mother,’ my old lady ses, firin’ up.
at your granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 29: Every blessed word o’ this was Greek to me.
at Greek, n.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 21: I chucks on my new velveteen startler [...] and a hairy cap, and them high-lows as I had made.
at hairy, adj.2
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 1: We wasn’t hard up for a sov.
at hard-up, adj.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 21: I chucks on my new velveteen startler [...] a hairy cap, and them high-lows as I had made.
at highlows (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 18: I am goin’ to ’op the twig. I am slowly wastin’ away with ’unger.
at hop the twig, v.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 5: I says, stately like, to show I could be up in the sterrups too, ‘Look in the right-hand pocket of the coat, young man.’.
at up in (the) stirrups, adj.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 2: There’s many a poor creeter without so much as an old jacket to pawn for a toothful o’ juniper.
at juniper (juice), n.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 20: I feels a little bit larkish.
at larky, adj.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 28: Joe won’t yer cum and ’elp yer lawful wife as them villains is a limbing of?
at limb, v.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 9: And if he didn’t give me a dose of the sourest muck I ever put to my lips, I’m a Dutchman.
at muck, n.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 1: ‘Good-bye; gee hup, Neddy,’ he says to the donkey.
at neddy, n.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 28: Jest as I was thinkin’ ’ow nobby I’d got over it, I see a site as give me quite a turn.
at nobby, adj.
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 7: ‘I seldom touches it,’ I ses, ‘except once in a way with sage and onions; and I ain’t wery nutty on it then.’.
at nutty upon (adj.) under nutty, adj.2
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 52: We commences peckin’ at half-past six.
at peck, v.1
[UK] R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 3: I’ll put yer up to a dodge.
at put up, v.
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