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The ‘Momus’ Miscellanies choose

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[UK] G.F. Northall ‘Momus’ Misc. 19: They all marched in apple-pie order.
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] G.F. Northall ‘Momus’ Misc. 76: You’d ne’er a finer pigtail see / Than that of Chopstick Chickoree [...] Whenever Chopstick walked along / The folks would follow in a throng.
at chopstick, n.1
[UK] G.F. Northall ‘Momus’ Misc. 76: The folks would follow in a throng, / And say, ‘my stars! well, well! my eye!’.
at my eye(s)!, excl.
[UK] G.F. Northall ‘Momus’ Misc. 33: To enter a pastry cook’s shop, and have a good tuck in.
at tuck-in, n.
[UK] G.F. Northall ‘Momus’ Misc. 34: ‘What do you want here?’ said the gentleman. ‘What’s that to you?’ responded Cade.
at what’s it to you?, phr.
[UK] G.F. Northall ‘Momus’ Misc. 60: His owner was a knowing un’ wot hanged about in pubs.
at knowing, adj.
[UK] G.F. Northall ‘Momus’ Misc. 24: Wat Tyler, or The Man with the Loose Slate.
at have a tile loose (v.) under tile, n.
[UK] G.F. Northall ‘Momus’ Misc. 48: He [...] hired a trotter.
at trotter, n.
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