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[UK] C. Lamb Elia Ser. 1 (1835) 12: A little less facetious, and a great deal more obstreperous, was fine rattling, rattleheaded Plumer.
at rattle-head, n.
[UK] C. Lamb Elia Ser.1 (1835) 245: The kangaroos – your Aborigines – do they keep their primitive simplicity un-European-tainted.
at kangaroo, n.1
[UK] C. Lamb Elia Ser. 1 (1835) 55: To say no to a poor petitionary rogue (your bastard borrower), who, by his mumping visnomy, tells you that he expects nothing better.
at mumping, n.
[UK] C. Lamb Elia Ser. 1 (1835) 5: Humourists, for they were of all descriptions [...] formed a sort of Noah’s ark. Odd fishes.
at odd fish (n.) under odd, adj.
[UK] C. Lamb Elia Ser. 2 (1835) 262: A horse-giver, no more that a horse-seller, has a right to palm his spavined article upon us for good ware.
at palm, v.
[UK] C. Lamb Elia Ser. 1 (1835) 266: The Mendicants of this great city were so many of her sights, her lions. I can no more spare them than I could the Cries of London.
at see the lions (v.) under see, v.
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