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[Scot] C.K. Sharpe Correspondence (1888) I 15: Billy Bamboozle, a quizzer and wit – At least he thinks; but he’s damnably bit. Alas poor Bamboozle!
at bamboozle, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter 23 July Correspondence (1888) I 178: His friends were ill natured, and behaved like blackguard beasts.
at blackguard, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter 23 July Correspondence (1888) I 179: Miss Reid with her silk coat and greasie golls.
at goll, n.1
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe Memoir Correspondence (1888) I 5: Lady Henrietta (vulgarly called Lady Henny) Grierson.
at hen, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe Correspondence (1888) I 18: His lordship in horse-flesh was apt to be cheated.
at horseflesh (n.) under horse, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe Correspondence (1888) I 18: A gentle tuft-worshipper, meek Master Pick-bone Who with pleasure will suffer his eares to be cufft By any Scotch cousin of any Scotch tuft.
at tuft-hunter, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe Correspondence (1888) I 18: A rogue with cross jaundic’d opticks sees every thing yellow.
at optic, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter 23 July Correspondence (1888) I 178: Not so my Lord C., who will drink with any one, and moreover keeps a trull at a turnpike gate about half a mile from Oxford.
at trull, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter 23 July Correspondence (1888) I 178: Newton has now quite shut himself up, and never goes out to wine.
at wine, v.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter Correspondence (1888) I 211: I come home cussing myself for going to see an experiment ‘not three dam’s worth’ .
at damn, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe Correspondence (1888) I 203: I devoured loads of devil’s dung rounded into pills.
at devil’s dung (n.) under devil, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter 18 Nov. Correspondence (1888) I 239: From what I have seen of his lordship, both as a bachelor and as a benedick, I should think that he is very little alter’d by the change.
at benedict, n.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter Correspondence (1888) I 210: I promise, by Gosh (which is the most elegant and classical oath imaginable), that great care shall be taken of them.
at by gosh! (excl.) under gosh!, excl.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter Correspondence (1888) II 421: Dear Madam [...] I send you a pair of blue stockings of my own knitting. I blush like a blue dog about the workmanshjip, for I fear they are too short.
at blush like a black dog (v.) under blush, v.
[Scot] C.K. Sharpe letter June Correspondence (1888) I 530: Amphibious somethings, neither Tory nor Whig; rats long ago, so never to be trusted.
at rat, n.1
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