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[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 4: You are the most confoundly cowardly beggar that ever lived.
at beggar, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 22: Oh, blow your weakness! dash your helplessness, and jigger your happetite!
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 24: ‘The fellow’s bolted,’ he said, ‘and this is a dodge to keep us in the dark.’.
at bolt, v.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 20: I guess [...] that’s a bit of bunkum.
at bunkum, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 24: The colonel’s on the ‘tarpee,’ as the French says. Isn’t he a buster?
at buster, n.1
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 8: Oh, dear me! you are such a humorous cuss, Ogre.
at cuss, n.1
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 9: ‘Oh! dash it — come, you know,’ expostulated Wobbles.
at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 22: Oh, blow your weakness! dash your helplessness, and jigger your happetite!
at dash, v.1
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 14: Hullo! who the deuce is this?
at deuce, the, phr.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 19: Oh, I’m done for!
at done for, adj.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 8: ‘Done with you – quick! I hear the Ogre. Down with the dust.’ The money was put down upon the table.
at down with one’s dust (v.) under dust, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 22: Oh, blow your weakness! dash your helplessness, and jigger your happetite!
at jigger!, excl.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 5: ‘By Jove!’ he exclaimed.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 21: Somebody’s having a lark, I reckon.
at lark, n.2
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 8: So that’s your line – is it?
at line, n.1
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 24: The work was beautifully done, and I wouldn’t have had a grip like it on me for the love of Polly Simpkins.
at for the love of Mike! (excl.) under love, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 5: Come out, you lubberly son of a cook.
at lubberly, adj.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 22: Look here, mates, there’s something more earthly in this.
at mate, n.1
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 23: I’ll knock your two optics into one.
at optic, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 22: You’ve got no pluck.
at pluck, n.1
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 8: And everybody will know then that he is the real stuff.
at real thing, the, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 22: Here, get along with you [...] Sharp’s the word.
at sharp, adv.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 6: ‘Shut up, will you?’ growled Jaundice.
at shut up!, excl.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 8: That stiff-necked young beggar [...] all starch and impudence.
at starch, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 22: But how the tarnation he did it I don’t know.
at tarnation, n.
[UK] Broad Arrow Jack 6: ‘He will be a whopper!’ said Wobbles.
at whopper, n.
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