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[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote II Bk viii 243: ‘What the Devil do you mean by saving my bacon,’ says Tugwell.
at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote II Bk viii 240: I never heard such rantipole doings since I was born; a body can not sleep o’ nights for ’em.
at body, n.
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote I Bk iv 231: If it is not one of these Methodists [...] A pack of canting toads! I thought he looked like one of those hypothetical rascals.
at canting, adj.
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote I Bk iv 232: You pot-gutted rascal! no more than yourself! marry come up!
at marry come up!, excl.
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote II Bk vii 111: He seems to like a bit of the good cretur as well as other folks.
at creature, the, n.
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote II Bk viii 240: ‘Gad-zookers!’ says he, ‘these Welsh people are all mad, I think; I never heard such rantipole doings since I was born.’.
at gadsokers! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote I Bk v 317: Lady Shockingphyz was mortified this morning.
at Miss, n.
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote I Bk iv 232: You pot-gutted rascal!
at pot-gutted (adj.) under pot, n.1
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote II Bk viii 240: ‘Gad-zookers!’ says he, ‘these Welsh people are all mad, I think; I never heard such rantipole doings since I was born.’.
at rantipole, n.
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote I Bk iv 225: He had thought it rather a dry discourse; and beginning to spit-sixpences (as his saying was), he gave hints to Mr. Wildgoose to stop at the first public-house they should come to.
at spit sixpences (v.) under spit, v.
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote III Bk xi 231: Dr Slash, an elderly Surgeon [...]was smoaking his pipe over a tiff of punch.
at tiff, n.1
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote I Bk iv 231: If it is not one of these Methodists [...] A pack of canting toads!
at toad, n.
[UK] ‘Geoffrey Wildgoose’ Spiritual Quixote I Bk iv 238: To see a noble creature start and tremble at the passionate exclamation of a mere Yahoo of a stable-boy [...] equally excites my pity and my indignation.
at yahoo, n.1
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