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The Green Bushes choose

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[UK] J.B. Buckstone Green Bushes I i: Bravo, Paddy—good cess to ye, Paddy—hurrah! [Ibid.] I i: Let me have two dips and if one of ’em is not an iligant prize, bad cess to ye.
at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Green Bushes I i: It’s a marcy my switch didn’t come in contract with your iligant frontispiece.
at frontispiece, n.
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Green Bushes I i: geo.: You must lead the soldiers to the very door of my brother’s house. [...] mur.: Well and where am I to meet the lobsters?
at lobster, n.1
[UK] J.B. Buckstone Green Bushes I i: For a tester, you are sure to win an iligant pair of garters.
at tester, n.1
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