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Boy’s Own Paper 22 Dec. 185/1: I ’spec she just come here to makee look see how de people get on.at looksee, n.
Boy’s Own Paper 22 Dec. 185/1: I ’spec she just come here to makee look see how de people get on. Boy’s Own Paper Summer 38/1: Something’s sky-hooted in my shoulder [...] That brute threw me on my head.at sky hoot (v.) under sky, n.1
Boy’s Own Paper XVII. 427/1: Small vessels are [...] commonly called ‘bug-traps’, because they soon get filled up with cockroaches..at bug trap (n.) under bug, n.4
Boy’s Own Paper 20 Nov. 123: How hard the temptation to blab what he knew.at blab, v.
Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 90: I’ve never had such a blow-out of lobsters before in my life.at blow-out, n.1
Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 91: The biggest booby can spell when he has the letters afore his e’en.at booby, n.1
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 105: We’ll put you to ‘by-bye’ under the hood; so you won’t lose your beauty sleep.at bye-bye(s), n.
Boy’s Own Paper 20 Nov. 123: Not a cheep!at cheep, n.
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 107: I tell myself I might as well chuck it up as a bad job.at chuck it, v.
Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 83: ‘Easy all,’ the Lieutenant ordered.at easy!, excl.
Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 86: Oh, no, bother fireworks [...] Let’s have a good feed.at feed, n.
Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 86: Just you shut up now, and let a fellow go to sleep.at fellow, n.
Boy’s Own Paper 27 Nov. 133: I say it arn’t fair to try and gammon a lot o’ men as is ready to fight for you.at gammon, v.
Boy’s Own Paper 27 Nov. 133: Not till I’ve had a good go at that Pete Burge.at have a go (v.) under go, n.1
Boy’s Own Paper 20 Nov. 122: The mate was sadly disappointed with the place and remarked, ‘What a hole to get into!’.at hole, n.1
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 104: ‘Bosh! Humbug!’ cried Fraser excitedly.at humbug!, excl.
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 104: Look here, Mobsley, if you read any more sickly rot like that, I’ll lick you.at lick, v.1
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 98: ‘You smoke, don’t you, Balderson?’ [...] ‘Very well, then, light up.’.at light up, v.1
Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 89: Here you are then, old man.at old man, n.
Boy’s Own Paper 27 Nov. 133: Hold your mouth, you one-eyed old tater-grubber.at hold one’s mouth (v.) under mouth, n.
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 104: Heywood was a muff, and Munro a drivelling old idiot.at muff, n.2
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 106: The mate [...] simply poo-poohed the idea of there having been any danger.at pooh-pooh, v.
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 104: Look here, Mobsley, if you read any more sickly rot like that, I’ll lick you!at rot, n.1
Boy’s Own Paper 6 Nov. 86: Shut up, you young idiot.at shut up!, excl.
Boy’s Own Paper 27 Nov. 133: Hold your mouth, you one-eyed old tater-grubber.at tater, n.
Boy’s Own Paper 20 Nov. 123: As he approached the door something else tickled him [...] Sandy laughed to himself.at tickle, v.
Boy’s Own Paper 13 Nov. 107: Let him off, or keep the whacking till I am out of the way.at whacking, n.
Boy’s Own Paper 12 Nov. 102: What awful sport it would be, parleying with the old man about his little German master.at awful, adj.
Boy’s Own Paper 15 Oct. 38: He closed the right fist and hit the crocodile an awful bang, fairly in the middle of the right eye.at bang, n.1
Boy’s Own Paper 15 Oct. 37: Hit the beggar hard right in the middle of the eye. A crocodile is very tender about the eye.at beggar, n.
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