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The Odd Fellow choose

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[UK] Odd Fellow 4 May 4/1: When I seen this by jappers it made me look two ways for Sunday.
at bejabers!, excl.
[UK] Odd Fellow 4 May 4/1: When I seen this by jappers it made me look two ways for Sunday.
at look seven ways for Sunday (v.) under look, v.
[UK] Odd Fellow 4 May 4/1: By the powers av the poker av Pharoah if he didn’t off wid his hat.
at by the powers of the poker of Pharoah! (excl.) under poker, n.1
[UK] Odd Fellow 4 May 3/3: [headline] Scene in the Life of a Resurrectionist [...] being resurrectionists no quarter would be given us.
at resurrectionist (n.) under resurrection, n.
[UK] Odd Fellow 4 May 4/1: I didn’t like the dirthy spalpeen takin’ me fur an old squakinbags as would be glad av the jab.
at squawking-bags (n.) under squawk, v.
[UK] Odd Fellow 4 May 4/1: Oh! thunder an ages, thinks I.
at thunder!, excl.
[UK] Odd Fellow 24 Oct. 1/5: How expressive is the style of the sainted Malachi Bibleback! he stamps, he raves, he tears his hair, and his voice — alas! that voice.
at bibleback, n.
[UK] Odd Fellow (London) 18 Sept. 1/4: But if backsides, once soft as down, / Have tough as teak become.
at backside, n.
[UK] Odd Fellow 11 Dec. 2/1: Let man forget his fellow-chum / And faithful rib, / And buckle down, morose and glum .
at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
[UK] Odd Fellow (London) 1 May 1/2: [pic. caption] Johnny Bull and the Locusts.
at John Bull, n.1
[UK] Odd Fellow (London) 18 Sept. 1/4: I’ll have it out of him; I’m d—d if I don’t.
at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
[UK] Odd Fellow (London) 28 Aug. 3/5: ‘By de hokey,’ grinned the sturdy beggar, ’if you hadn’t given me this, I’d may be ha’ bin forced to — work’.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[UK] Odd Fellow (London) 23 Oct. 1/2: ‘Could a pig grunt’ answered Dennis.
at could a pig grunt (v.) under pig, n.
[UK] Odd Fellow (London) 23 Oct. 1/2: [pic. caption] ‘I say, Jack; do you see anything particularly spoonified in my new tile?’.
at spoonified (adj.) under spoon, n.
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