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[UK] Kipling ‘His Private Honour’ in Many Inventions [TBD]: They’re none so dusty now, are they?
at not so dusty (adj.) under dusty, adj.1
[UK] Kipling ‘His Private Honour’ in Many Inventions [TBD]: The captain had come up anf was raggin’ me about my tunic bein’ tore.
at rag, v.1
[UK] Kipling Many Inventions 167: The blue pencil plunged remorselessly through the slips.
at blue-pencil, v.
[UK] Kipling ‘In the Rukh’ in Many Inventions 223: I tell you der big brass-hat pizness does not make der trees grow.
at brass hat (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] Kipling ‘In the Rukh’ in Many Inventions 223: If I only talk to my boys like a Dutch uncle dey say ‘It was only dot damned old Muller’.
at Dutch uncle, n.
[UK] Kipling Many Inventions 47: I perceived a gunner-orf’cer in full rig’mentals perusin’ down the road, hell-for-leather, wid his mouth open.
at hell for leather (adv.) under hell, n.
[UK] Kipling Many Inventions 259: I wud lie most powerful doggo whin I heard a shot.
at lie doggo (v.) under lie, v.1
[UK] Kipling ‘A Matter of Fact’ in Many Inventions 166: You’ll see how I work a big scoop when I get it.
at scoop, n.
[UK] Kipling ‘Record of Badalia Herodsfoot’ inMany Inventions 309: [Him] that ’ud smitch off and leave me.
at smitch, v.
[UK] Kipling ‘My Lord the Elephant’ in Many Inventions (1919) 56: The corp’ril of the gyard [...] unlocked my stringers, an’ he sez: ‘If it comes to runnin’, run for your life.’.
at stringers, n.
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