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‘Trouble Down at Tudsleigh’ in Young Men in Spats 75: ‘Don’t you love “Locksley Hall”?’ ‘Oh, rather. And the “Lady of Shalott”. ‘And “Maud”?’ ‘Aces,’ said Freddie.at aces, adj.
‘Trouble Down at Tudsleigh’ in Young Men in Spats 75: ‘Don’t you love “Locksley Hall”?’ ‘Oh, rather. And the “Lady of Shalott”. ‘And “Maud”?’ ‘Aces,’ said Freddie. ‘Tried in the Furnace’ in Young Men in Spats 47: ‘What’s all this?’ asked Pongo. Barmy tried to be airy. ‘Oh, it’s nothing. Just the local School Treat’.at airy, adj.1
‘The Amazing Hat Mystery’ in Young Men in Spats 110: ‘[I]f the King
wants a new topper he simply ankles round to
Bodmin’s’.at ankle, v.
Young Men in Spats 30: ‘A palooka. [...] Slice him where you like, he was still boloney’.at baloney, n.
Young Men in Spats 9: It was the hour of the morning snifter, and a little group of Eggs and Beans and Crumpets had assembled in the smoking-room of the Drones Club to do a bit of inhaling.at bean, n.2
‘Code of the Mulliners’ in Young Men in Spats 277: I have little or no acquaintance among the
pure and beefy ladies who play heroines in our
Number Two towns.at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
‘Archibald and the Masses’ in Young Men in Spats 247: [H]is views on bilking had been hard and bigoted.at bilk, v.
‘Good-bye to All Cats’ in Young Men in Spats 125: ‘Since I perceive this is a blasted Zoo. I will withdraw’.at blasted, adj.1
‘Trouble Down at Tudsleigh’ in Young Men in Spats 81: ‘He is not soppy at all. Dashed beautiful.’ ‘But don't you think his girls are awful blisters?’.at blister, n.1
‘Tried in the Furnace’ in Young Men in Spats 49: There is something about evening church in
a village in the summer-time that affects the
most hard-boiled.at hard-boiled, adj.
‘Noblesse Oblige’ in Young Men in Spats 199: ‘A bot. of some nice, dry wine to wash things down’.at bot, n.2
Young Men in Spats 35: Such goings-on. I’m shocked.
That’s what I am. Shocked. And the boys
are shocked, too.at boys, the, n.
‘Code of the Mulliners’ in Young Men in Spats 277: ‘You really will breeze along to the Savoy to-night and play the role of a betrayed girl?’.at breeze, v.1
‘Trouble Down at Tudsleigh’ in Young Men in Spats 78: ‘Bulldog Whacker had to go to hospital for two months after one of our bouts’.at bulldog, n.
‘Trouble Down at Tudsleigh’ in Young Men in Spats 71: ‘If you got both eyes bunged up, you wouldn’t be able to see the scenery.’ ‘Why should I get both eyes bunged up?’ ‘You might’.at bunged up, adj.
‘Trouble Down at Tudsleigh’ in Young Men in Spats 83: ‘Why aren’t you at school now?’ ‘I was bunked last month.’ ‘Really?’ said Freddie, interested. ‘They gave you the push, did they?’.at bunk, v.1
‘Noblesse Oblige’ in Young Men in Spats 176: ‘I tackled Freddie just now and said that he ought to chip in’.at chip in, v.
‘Archibald and the Masses’ in Young Men in Spats 259: ‘Indeed, it looks very much as if I were even now on to chokey’.at chokey, n.
‘Luck of the Stiffhams’ in Young Men in Spats 175: It was his faith [...] that led young Pongo Twistleton-Twistleton to take the short end from Oofy Prosser against all the ruling of the form-book, and I [...] am delighted that he has cleaned up.at clean up, v.
‘Fiery Wooing of Mordred’ in Young Men in Spats 303: [T]hese men were mere clods, Philistines, fatheads.at clod, n.1
Young Men in Spats 18: ‘[W]e found her alone in her apartment with this pie-faced cluck’.at cluck, n.1
Young Men in Spats 14: [A]ll that stuff about Sugar-Daddies being Discovered In Love Nest As Blizzard Grips City.at sugar daddy, n.
‘Tried in the Furnace’ in Young Men in Spats 50: It would play the dickens with his heart [...] but nevertheless he would retire from the unseemly struggle and give the girl up to Pongo.at dickens, the, phr.
‘Tried in the Furnace’ in Young Men in Spats 61: ‘I believed you when you handed me all that drip about yielding your claim and what not’.at drip, n.
‘Noblesse Oblige’ in Young Men in Spats 190: [T]o edge out and leg it would have taken that ten seconds or so which make all the difference.at edge, v.
Young Men in Spats 9: It was the hour of the morning snifter, and a little group of Eggs and Beans and Crumpets had assembled in the smoking-room of the Drones Club to do a bit of inhaling.at egg, n.2
Young Men in Spats 18: ‘[W]e found her alone in her apartment with this pie-faced cluck’.at pie-faced, adj.
‘The Amazing Hat Mystery’ in Young Men in Spats 101: ‘I’ve never yet flashed upon her in a topper’.at flash on (v.) under flash, v.3
‘The Amazing Hat Mystery’ in Young Men in Spats 101: Percy [...] was a bit foggy on angels.at foggy, adj.
‘Noblesse Oblige’ in Young Men in Spats 191: This is not the old Widgeon form. The boy I admired so much [...] would not have foozled a small loan like this.at foozle, v.
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