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[UK] R. Broughton Nancy II 154: Look at him! [...] did you ever see such a Beast as he looks?
at beast, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy II 49: I will not say what I was going to say [...] I shall only get my nose bitten off if I do.
at bite someone’s nose off (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy III 213: Some people have their happiness thinly spread over their whole lives, like bread and scrape!
at bread and scrape (n.) under bread, n.1
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy I 155: The carriage is at the door: the maid and valet are in the dickey.
at dicky, n.3
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy III 187: How gallus bad their ’taters were last year.
at gallows, adv.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy II 157: A whole complete new set – thirty-two individual grinders!
at grinder, n.1
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy II 92: I [...] stop talking in a huff.
at huff, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy III 202: You were huffy, then!
at huffy, adj.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy III 108: His horses would certainly carry me: I wonder would he give me a mount now and then.
at mount, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy III 118: The bronze of his face is a little paled by emotion, but there is no sawny sentiment in his tone, none of the lover’s whine.
at sawney, adj.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy III 213: Some people have their happiness thinly spread over their whole lives, like bread and scrape!
at scrape, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy I 11: Mother looks rather at sea.
at all at sea (adj.) under sea, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy III 249: I have broken into easy tears at some silly tiff with the others.
at tiff, n.2
[UK] R. Broughton Nancy I 70: My acquaintance is confined to half-a-dozen turnipy squires and their wives.
at turnipy (adj.) under turnip, n.
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