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Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns choose

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[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 340: My, how him hansom, dat buccrah!
at backra, n.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 190: The parson [...] said to the sergeant, ‘What! are you afraid, man? Why, then I suppose a black coat must show you red coats the way.’.
at black coat (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 185: Assuming an air of bellicosity that might have awed even a bubblyjock.
at bubbly jock, n.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 5: He hated to be thought an ‘old buster’, to use his own expression.
at buster, n.3
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 6: With a chin-chin off we set on our separate paths.
at chin-chin!, excl.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 164: She told me that Don Pedro, recovered from his wound, after plaguing her [...] with a churchyard cough [...] had at last ‘gone out’.
at churchyard cough (n.) under churchyard, n.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 164: She told me that Don Pedro, recovered from his wound, after plaguing her [...] with a churchyard cough [...] had at last ‘gone out’.
at go out, v.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 39: To break the intint cordial for a palthry tuppeny-hapenny action in that thrumpery coort o’ yours!
at tuppenny halfpenny, adj.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 79: By the Lord Harry! voices below, and lights!
at by the Lord Harry! (excl.) under Lord Harry, n.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 145: Even the medico admitted the percentage of tannin to be excessive.
at medico, n.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 6: They were capital specimens of the genus ‘middy’.
at middy, n.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 26: It is a hot, [...] old-fashioned town of Dutch origin [...] which, even when the Mynheers held possession, was worth no end of rix-dollars to their State.
at mynheer, n.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 3: We’ll take an interpreter, so in the event of meeting any of the natives he can parley-voo’ them.
at parleyvoo, v.
[UK] Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 157: It was as much as I could do to keep him from [...] ‘spiflicating the villen’.
at spiflicate, v.
[UK] Soldiers ‘Army Brats’ Apr. 50:4 n.p.: That makes [Shaquille] O’Neal perhaps the most famous ‘Army brat’ – the irreverent term that for generations has been used to refer to the sons and daughters of active-duty soldiers.
at army brat (n.) under army, n.2
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