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[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: Mother Gall! Why I would not send that delightful old bag of bones to jail for all the world.
at bag of bones, n.1
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V ii: I’ll turn state’s-evidence, I’ll blow Ben.
at blow, v.1
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V ii: Troubled with the blues, doctor, very blue – ha, ha, ha! [...] I am resolved to be drunk.
at blues, n.1
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: Mr. Ravin, you are a comical to scare a poor body so.
at body, n.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I iv: The chief ingredients of which are love and counterfeit money [...] I am sure the gentlemen will not boggle at the latter.
at boggle, v.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass III i: And another man’s bona-roba too! If you had told me this before, I could have prevented this rencontre.
at bona roba, n.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass IV ii: We’ll have the bull-dogs here in a twinkling, head ratcatchers and all.
at bulldog, n.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V iii: There’s no use in bullywragging any more.
at bullyrag, v.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V ii: I don’t stagger, and I can walk the crack with any man, only I’m giddy, – that’s all.
at walk the chalk, v.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V ii: Drink you porpoise. If you should become cosey, I’ll send to the ’pothecary for sal aeratis.
at cosy, adj.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass II vi: rav.: Dog! give her back. ros.: Thou worse than dog! thou beast, Without a name to express thy lust or fury!
at dog, n.2
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I iii: Here’s one poor copper; ’tis all I have earned to day. So, if you’ll deliver me a fip, I’ll change it.
at fip, n.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass II i: He had fobbed my father.
at fob, v.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: Gadswogs! nor I. [Ibid.] III iv: Gadswogs! That’s a word never came from a Christian dictionary.
at gadswogs! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: Gogs! and I am a gentleman after a sort.
at gog, n.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass II iii: Golly! Mr. Bolt is satirical.
at golly!, excl.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I iii: Hang you, imp.
at hang!, excl.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass III i: Odds my life! I think he has been guzzling porter.
at ods my life! (excl.) under ods, n.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: ring.: How’s your wound? rav.: Where? on my heart? ring.: Rot your heart. – Your arm?
at rot!, excl.1
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V i: You don’t say so! the doctor!
at you don’t say under say, v.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V i: What fools men are to get drunk. – Here soak, you rogue.
at soak, n.1
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V i: Look ye here, Mr. What-d’ye-call-’em.
at whatd’youcallhim, n.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass IV i: He played the very devil at college, for all ’twas in a Yankee land.
at Yankeeland, n.
[US] R.M. Bird City Looking Glass IV v: Zooks, sir! you are as solemn as a snapping-turtle of a cold day.
at zooks!, excl.
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