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[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 62: They mumble of ‘descended from Duke of York, royal blood,’ all my eye, et cet.
at all my eye, phr.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 33: The establishment was a bad egg.
at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 60: If it had been one of Colt’s ’stead of your beastly British make.
at beastly, adj.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 22: Where the blazes is the ‘dough’ to come from?
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 27: Hay, you bloats with that ambulance, come over here.
at bloat, n.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 7: There was going to be a big procession [...] In the streets, which the ‘blues’ had cleared of the stages and carts, a double set of contrary streams of people.
at blue, n.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 52: You’re a brave lad, master – fought better than any six king’s blue jackets.
at bluejacket, n.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 97: Hullo! I say, Jem! vy strike me lame, here’s the pretty lady what give us the blunt tother day!
at blunt, n.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 10: He had a way of ‘boning on fellers’ – (more plainly, tale-telling) and currying favor with the master.
at bone, v.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 36: Oh! you peppered the big Johny Bull of a moll!
at John Bull, n.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 36: Oh! you peppered the big Johny Bull of a moll! Good for you! Bully!
at bully!, excl.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 46: ‘Another man pays,’ he used to say as he saw his roll of fives swept away, and planked down another bundle.
at bundle, n.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 9: Why, the worst bit of calico that ever an engine runner knew would be an angel to that woman!
at calico, n.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 87: If Valentine hadn’t shown it in Ben Jonson, they’d have been clapperclawing yet.
at clapperclaw, v.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 13: I think you’re coming the double over me, Bill [...] You must have got more than sixteen dollars for that watch!
at come the double (v.) under come the..., v.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 22: Won’t he come down with any more chink?
at come down with (v.) under come down, v.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 42: D----- if I wouldn’t look at him all night if he’d money out for me!
at damn, v.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 36: ’Taint you Edwards, for the pocket-dipping on the Third Avenue car?
at dipping, n.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 46: If ever I raise a pile big enough, I’ll do London as a tip-top figure.
at do, v.2
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 13: I think you’re coming the double over me, Bill [...] You must have got more than sixteen dollars for that watch! [HDAS].
at come the double (on/over) (v.) under double, n.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 22: Where the blazes is the ‘dough’ to come from?
at dough, n.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 30: [He] had fallen in with a rough crowd up town around Mackerelville, and when he liked he could be the ‘dusty boy, you just bet high’.
at dusty, adj.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 7: From Canal-street up to Waverley Place, the easy pieces, the girls of joy, were ‘kinder thick’.
at easy, adj.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 87: Her stories of New York were eye-openers.
at eye-opener, n.1
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 22: You gals spend enough to know something about earning cash.
at gal, n.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 12: The Jehu set him down at the door of the liveliest kind of gayest house that he knew.
at gay house (n.) under gay, adj.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 11: She had ventured into the throng, under the ‘go it, lemons’ principle.
at go it, boots! (excl.) under go it!, excl.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 46: If Nathan excused him for a couple of nights, and kept quiet, away from Matty, ‘she gave it him hot’ the next time they met.
at give it hot (and strong) (v.) under hot, adv.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 62: You see the Olympic has been doing huge with the English blonde, ‘from the Haymarket London.’.
at huge, adj.
[US] H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 36: ‘All hunky!’ said he.
at hunky, adj.1
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