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The Haunted Inn choose

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[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn II iii: I’ll go to gaol in my birth-day suit.
at birthday suit, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn I ii: mrs. g.: Has anything awoke you in the night? tom: Oh, yes [...] The little biting chaps.
at chap, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn II iii: There’s the pig-jobbers again, and, dash it, a fellow staring at Jenny like a cod-fish.
at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn II ii: The prettiest bonnet, and such a duck of a riding-habit.
at duck, n.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn II iii: That everlasting corporal!
at everlasting, adj.
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn I i: By Gar, I have done de most work to collect de debt.
at gar, n.1
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn II i: I can speak French to you [...] bung up both votre yeaux, and joué hell and tommy avec vous.
at play hell and tommy (v.) under hell, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn I i: Magging in this way, you may dangle after him to the Land’s-End.
at mag, v.
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn I ii: I have not a stiver!
at stiver, n.
[UK] R.B. Peake Haunted Inn I ii: You know you are tarrididdling, Jenny!
at taradiddle, n.
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