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[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 27: ‘I know him all to pieces,’ replied the gentleman.
at all to pieces, adv.
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 31: ‘Why don’t you get in, boss?’ said one of the men on the dock.
at boss, n.2
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco II 189: ‘Speak louder, Bub,’ said one of the vice presidents encouragingly.
at bub, n.3
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco II 78: I have kept money enough to have a good drunk.
at drunk, n.
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 249: You have got strong syptoms of the fantods; your skin is so tight you can’t shut your eyes without opening your mouth.
at fantod, n.
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 188: A jug of rum, of which he drank so constantly, that the delirium tremens, or, as the sailors called it, the horrors, was the consequence.
at horrors, the, n.
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 249: ‘Well, it’s Johnny Raw, I know,’ said a foretopman who was the bully.
at Johnny Raw, n.
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 249: ‘But it’s Johnny Comelately, aint it, you?’ said a young mizzen topman.
at johnny-come-lately (n.) under johnny, n.1
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco II 12: Old poppy Van Krouteater [...] had sold his farm for almost a million of dollars, on the condition that the purchaser should build a town on it, and call it Van Krouteater city.
at kraut-eater (n.) under kraut, n.
[US] C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 22: What! you don’t liquorate? [...] Don’t drink, hey?
at liquor (up), v.
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