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A Burgher Quixote choose

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[SA] D. Blackburn Burgher Quixote 105: He is a downy old cove.
at downy, adj.1
[SA] D. Blackburn Burgher Quixote 147: My Burghers are mostly kerels who can’t play cards Rooinek fashion.
at kêrel, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Burgher Quixote x: Rooineck (red-neck), a contemptuous name for Englishmen. [Ibid.] 24: Speaking the Taal very well for a Rooinek.
at rooinek, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Burgher Quixote 147: My Burghers are mostly kerels who can’t play cards Rooinek fashion.
at rooinek, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Burgher Quixote 87: You schlem! you traitor!
at schlemiel, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Burgher Quixote 71: ‘Niko mena skoff,’ which is kitchen Kafir for ‘Give me food’.
at scoff, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Burgher Quixote 298: ‘No!’ he shouted. ‘Tell the verdomde schlem to be damned.’.
at verdomde, adj.
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