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[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich III ii: There came [...] as fine a large banging hare as ever you clapt your two most gracious eyes upon.
at banging, adj.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich II i: I’m an old rook and a black legs!
at blackleg, n.1
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich II i: I’ve learnt all your cant words.
at cant, n.1
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich II i: I’ve waited whole hours in the streets, only to catch a smile from him [...] and laugh’d at his jokes, though he knows he never cut one in his life.
at cut a joke (v.) under cut, v.1
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich III ii: Dang it, if ever I squeeze a hare again.
at dang!, excl.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich III ii: I’cod it wou’d have done your heart good to see Nicky and I laughing.
at ecod!, excl.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich Epilogue: Father, cries Dicky, let’s live near St. James’s – Pall-Mall and Piccadilly! There the game is!
at game, n.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich II i: I’m not a greenhorn or a flat.
at greenhorn, n.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich V ii: So, Mr. Pain-in-the-face, (tolatitat) You and the young alderman here have done it.
at pain (in the neck), n.1
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich V ii: So, Mr. Pain-in-the-face, You and the young alderman here have done it.
at Mr, n.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich I ii: I never had a shilling, and I’ve always lived like a Nabob.
at nabob, n.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich I i: I’ve nothing but paper.
at paper, n.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich I ii: I suppose my sister has so plucked the pigeons in my absence, that there’s scarcely a feather left in town.
at pluck a pigeon (v.) under pluck, v.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich V i: Mind you’re not tricked again – For that Latitat is such a dirty shuffling rascal.
at shuffle, v.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich III ii: I’m to be tucked up for only squeezing a hare!
at tuck up, v.
[UK] F. Reynolds How to Grow Rich IV ii: Farewell, old What’s-his-name – Tommy.
at whatshisname, n.
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