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Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall choose

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[UK] ‘Coming of Age’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 116: Oh, I am ’aving a beano!
at beano, n.1
[UK] ‘Under the Harrow’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 139: Characters. Sir Poshbury Puddock (a haughty and high-minded Baronet) [...] Blethers (an ancient and attached Domestic).
at blether, n.
[UK] ‘The Little Crossing-Sweeper’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 82: No, blow me if I can do it, for I feel my eyes are all twitching.
at blow me!, excl.2
[UK] ‘Little Crossing-Sweeper’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 85: A British Buttons ain’t afeard of Burgulars!
at buttons, n.
[UK] ‘The Patriotic’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 17: They’ll cut down the whole caboodle – On the Cheap!
at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
[UK] ‘The Panegyric Patter’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 67: The leading lady charmer is a chit of forty-four.
at charmer, n.
[UK] ‘Tommy and his Sister Jane’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 152: No peace of mind I e’er shall know again / Till I have cooked the geese of Tom and Jane!
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[UK] ‘Man-Trap’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 94: He’s always cribbing coppers – which he spends on lollipops.
at crib, v.1
[UK] ‘Conrad’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 171: You should have drawn it milder.
at draw it mild, v.
[UK] ‘Tommy and his Sister Jane’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 152: I’m a nervous nunky, / For downright felonies I’m far too funky!
at funky, adj.2
[UK] ‘Tommy & his Sister Jane’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 154: tommy.: What, Uncle going? the w.u.: (with assumed jauntiness). Just to get my hair cut!
at get one’s hair cut (v.) under hair, n.
[UK] ‘In the Guards!’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 74: We look such heavy swells, you see, we’re all aristo-crats.
at heavy swell, n.
[UK] ‘Mashed by a Marchioness’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr. Punch’s Model Music Hall 32: She spotted me in ’alf a jiff, and chaffed me precious hot!
at hot, adv.
[UK] ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 73: No Music-hall ditty can ever be accepted as a quite infallible authority upon any social type it may undertake to depict – with the single exception, perhaps, of the Common (or Howling) Cad.
at howling, adj.
[UK] ‘The Man-Trap’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 94: Now I’ve grown into an awful young limb.
at limb, n.
[UK] ‘The Rival Dolls’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 163: Your lubberly ways I objeck to.
at lubberly, adj.
[UK] ‘Coming of Age’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 119: Way-oh, ole matey, I don’t bear no malice, I don’t!
at way-oh!, excl.
[UK] ‘Coming of Age’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 116: Don’t I look slap-up – O.K. and no mistake?
at OK, adv.
[UK] ‘The Topical-Political’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 20: And what his little game is, he’ll let us perceive, / And he’ll pip the whole lot of ’em, so I believe.
at pip, v.1
[UK] ‘Rhino!’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 55: The only real religion now is – Rhino!
at rhino, n.1
[UK] F. Anstey Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 99: Miss Bessie Bellwood sings ‘What Cheer, ’Ria?’ at the Lyceum.
at ’ria, n.
[UK] ‘The Patriotic’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 17: Bull gets rusty when you tax him.
at rusty, adj.1
[UK] ‘Under the Harrow’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 140: Regular bounder. Shocking bad hat!
at shockingly, adv.
[UK] ‘Little Crossing-Sweeper’ in F. Anstey Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 83: Never was in such slap-up quarters in my life.
at slap-up, adj.
[UK] ‘The Patriotic’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 16: The price we’re asked to pay is pretty steep.
at steep, adj.
[UK] ‘The Little Crossing-Sweeper’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 83: Never in such slap-up quarters in my life, Sir, I’ll stick to yer, no fear!
at stick to, v.
[UK] ‘Little Crossing-Sweeper’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 84: You tell us you’re toffs, and the real Upper Ten.
at upper ten, n.
[UK] ‘In the Guards!’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 75: With duchesses I’m ’and in glove, with countesses I’m thick.
at thick, adj.
[UK] ‘The Little Crossing-Sweeper’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 83: ’Ere, you sit down on this gilded cheer – that’s the ticket.
at that’s the ticket! (excl.) under ticket, n.1
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