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O.V.H. II 169: Writhing yet striving to look pleasant on the infliction which the beetle-crusher of a recent arrival had just inflicted on his pet corn.at beetle-crusher (n.) under beetle, n.1
O.V.H. II 169: Writhing yet striving to look pleasant on the infliction which the beetle-crusher of a recent arrival had just inflicted on his pet corn. O.V.H. I 45: Jemmy [...] left orders with the yawning ‘boots’ to see him called at ten in the morning.at boots, n.2
O.V.H. (1877) 413: Then he came back rosy and hungry, and revenged himself by an administration of cold pig to the still slumbering Ralph.at cold pig (n.) under cold, adj.
O.V.H. II 169: Choked in a white tie and dog-collar.at dog-collar (n.) under dog, n.2
O.V.H. II 168: Conrades of club and chambers, who had been intimate with Mr. James Blake [...] had hob-and-nobbed with him on winter evenings.at hob nob, v.
O.V.H. II 110: The latter lapped his third go of cold gin at the bar of the Greyhound.at lap, v.
O.V.H. II 120: It’s a deuce of a mucker about Bradshaw.at mucker, n.1
O.V.H. III 85: Whose ignorance or temporarily obfuscated brain caused him to mistake his employer for Mr. Blake.at obfuscated, adj.
O.V.H. I 202: Jemmy [...] made a hasty apology, and securing a pot-hat, pea-jacket, and double thong as precaution, went to the servants’ hall.at pot hat (n.) under pot, n.1
O.V.H. II 115: And a carefully roped and bottled animal, that dropped like a meteor upon the racing public for the Chester cup, ‘skinned the lamb’ for Mr. Bacon, landed every bet standing in his book.at skin the lamb (v.) under skin, v.1
O.V.H. III 89: ‘Pig-headed booby!’ quoth Jemmy [...] ‘Don’t slang the poor brute.’.at slang, v.1
O.V.H. I 65: He had abandoned further classics in final schools, and was aiming sedulously at a class in ‘stinks’.at stinks, n.
O.V.H. III 195: ‘Ta-ta!’ said Algernon.at ta-ta, phr.
O.V.H. III 195: We shall wind-up Wednesday week at my house.at wind up, v.
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