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[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 42: ’Tis a woman again. Get a bad ’un and a good farmer’s nowt. Get a good ’un and t’farmer don’t count.
at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 86: I think it’s perfectly beastly, making a kind of beanfeast because somebody is going to be shut up in the earth.
at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 39: ’E’s been like a bear wi’ a sore head ever since his missus hasn’t been well like.
at bear, n.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 118: We’ve just landed a lovely little pair o’ twins, Miss Mary. Prime little beauties.
at beauty, n.1
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 156: An interfering stranger like yourself to be blarneying us into thinking we could be better off than we are.
at blarney, v.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 162: Fancy calling feet ‘tootsies’ and dogs ‘bow-wows’.
at bow-wow, n.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 144: David found himself recalling memories of brekkers in Harcourt’s rooms at the House.
at brekker, n.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 199: Eli was cracking up yon Mr. Rossiter [...] saying what a good speaker ’e was an’ all.
at crack up, v.1
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 96: Now then don’t go fashin’ yourself about your chair covers.
at fash, v.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 199: And Mike, ’e flies up all at once like ’e do at times.
at fly up (v.) under fly, v.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 169: Have you seen this week’s Northern Clarion? By Jove, your little friend’s been at it all right.
at at it under it, n.1
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 199: Irishmen can stand a lot o’ drink, not but what Mike isn’t a good ’un with his fists once he gets well liquored up.
at liquored (up), adj.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 168: And how‘s the nipper? By Jove, the very image of his father.
at nipper, n.3
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 277: I’m taking missus in tid Hardrascliffe to-night for a bit o’ spree like.
at spree, n.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 169: Have you seen this week’s Northern Clarion? By Jove [...] There’s a stinger there, a regular stinger.
at stinger, n.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 45: She goes well enough till she has to stop for her ‘usual.’.
at usual, the, n.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 247: And you’ll follow a hot-brained tub-thumper from Manchester, whose business it is to fool you left and right. Don’t you know he’s being paid to fool you?
at tub-thumper, n.
[UK] W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 162: Fancy calling feet ‘tootsies.’.
at tootsie, n.
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