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[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 205: If the little ruffian ain’t drunk as a piper.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 157: Why, Badger, you dim, watery-blooded anatomy.
at anatomy, n.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 301: A fellow as has made hisself somebody on the other side of the big ferry.
at big ferry (n.) under big, adj.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 327: The biscuit [...] though had a Hitalian kiverin’ was only a Boston cracker.
at biscuit, n.1
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 401: Two elderly females, dressed up to the nines.
at dressed (up) to the nines, phr.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 374: It is so everlastingly a boastin’ of its refinement.
at everlastingly, adv.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 158: Only a paltry fip-poun ten.
at fip-poun, n.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 373: They purtend that this here is a hage of henlightenment and hintellect [...] Humbug!
at humbug!, excl.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 401: This here description o’ pictur’ takin’ was done in a giffy.
at jiffy, n.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 204: You stuck up lump of conceit.
at lump, n.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 369: The private soakers as locks themselves up with the grog, and mugs themselves, alone.
at mug (up), v.1
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 361: The self-satisfied, pompous, hignorance of them turnip-faced pumps in spectacles.
at pump, n.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 362: A chap tucks in a lot o’ dinner [...] punishin’ nothin’ but substantial gallops o’ meat.
at punish, v.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 365: The Cap’n and me was round the horn last night.
at round the horn (adj.) under round the..., phr.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 400: Hup stairs [...] we found ourselves right smack up at the sky-parlor.
at sky-parlour (n.) under sky, n.1
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 369: The private soakers as locks themselves up with the grog, and mugs themselves, alone.
at soaker, n.1
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 327: Let Mounseer Thingamy, or a Si’nory Whatyoucallem, wag is beard at ’em.
at thingummy, n.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 327: There was a tidy lot of them.
at tidy, adj.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 361: The self-satisfied, pompous, hignorance of them turnip-faced pumps in spectacles.
at turnip-faced (adj.) under turnip, n.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 369: The state of my hupper works painfully persuaded me.
at upper storey (n.) under upper, adj.
[US] J. Brougham Basket of Chips 368: I was a-goin’ to wet my whistle from the junk-bottle.
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
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