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Pothunters 100: Charteris was called the Alderman on account of his figure, which was
inclined to stoutness, and his general capacity for consuming food.at alderman, n.
Pothunters 100: Charteris was called the Alderman on account of his figure, which was
inclined to stoutness, and his general capacity for consuming food. Pothunters 137: Barrett set him down as a sort of superior tourist, a Henry as opposed to an ’Arry.at ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
Pothunters 49: ‘Ward's the worst type of beak. He simply lives for the sake of booking chaps’.at beak, n.1
Pothunters 37: ‘[D]uring the second round [...] I gave him
beans’.at give someone beans (v.) under beans, n.2
Pothunters 49: ‘If he books a chap out of bounds it keeps him happy for a week’.at book, v.1
Pothunters 33: ‘There’s a pane taken clean out. I booked it in a second as I was going past’.at book, v.1
Pothunters 35: ‘[Y]ou’d better buck up and change, or you'll be late for brekker’.at brekker, n.
Pothunters 143: ‘[T]he nearest keeper, who'd just come down a buster over a rabbit-hole, sailed in and had him’.at buster, n.1
Pothunters 152: Mr Thompson had once detected a piece of cribbing [...] solely by the exercise of his powers of observation.at crib, v.2
Pothunters 122: ‘Why are you sucha croaker to-day?’.at croaker, n.1
Pothunters 75: ‘I may be a bit of a crock in some ways [...] but I can stop a couple of fags ragging if I try’.at crock, n.1
Pothunters 38: ‘Mean to say Allen was crock enough to bet against himself?’.at crock, adj.
Pothunters 84: Where’s the dic? And our invaluable friend, Mr Bohn?at dic, n.
Pothunters 13: ‘[W]hat the dickens are you up here for?’.at dickens, the, phr.
Pothunters 167: ‘It’s disappointing [...] to find a chap who can crack a crib as neatly as you can doubling up like this. Think how Charles Peace would have behaved’.at double up, v.2
Pothunters 224: ‘In a very elevated, not to say intoxicated, state’.at elevated, adj.
Pothunters 45: ‘Shows what a fat lot you know what you're talking about’.at fat lot (n.) under fat, adj.
Pothunters 84: ‘You can see him rising to a point of order, and fixing the Old 'Un with a fishy eye’.at fishy, adj.1
Pothunters 143: ‘How about keepers? See any?’ ‘Did I not! Three of them chased me like good 'uns’.at like a good ’un (adv.) under good ’un, n.
Pothunters 48: The knowing
ones, however, gave it as their opinion that the man must have been
frightened by something.at knowing, adj.
Pothunters 37: ‘How on earth did you manage to lick Allen like that? I thought he was a cert’.at lick, v.1
Pothunters 39: ‘[H]e wouldn't send me two quid off the reel without
wanting to know all about it’.at off the reel, phr.
Pothunters 65: ‘He used to stay out after lock-up. [...] Well, the Old ’Un dropped on him like a hundredweight of bricks’.at old one, n.
Pothunters 102: ‘The only reason he doesn't drink gin and play billiards [...] is that gin makes him ill and his best break at pills is six’.at pill, n.
Pothunters 34: ‘[T]hey shunted all the Sports prizes from the Board Room to the Pav. and shot ’em into the First room.at shoot, v.
Pothunters 70: ‘I’m going to sling you out, and jolly soon, too’.at sling, v.
Pothunters 147: ‘Uncle came out fairly strong then?’ ‘Rather. To the tune of one sovereign, cash’.at strong, adv.
Pothunters 29: Tony’s blows had been mostly body blows, and very warm ones at that.at warm, adj.
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