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[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 59: It was legendary in Limehouse that old Kang Foo Ah knew a thing or three.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 154: The bread-and-butter race is a hard one.
at bread and butter, n.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 15: It is Battling Burrows, the lightning welterweight of Shadwell, the box o’ tricks, the Tetrach of the ring.
at whole bag of tricks, the, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 155: He was a dreadful doper. Sometimes he would chew betel nut or bhang or hashish, but mostly it was a big jolt of yen-shi.
at bang, n.4
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 294: Yeh know Punditt’s way with bilkers, doncher?
at bilker (n.) under bilk, v.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 101: Rotten house to-night, wasn’t it? I thought we was going to get the bird.
at get the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 259: A stretch? Lorlummy, they fair shied the book at ’im.
at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 295: If yeh don’t brass up by Wednesday night – then I’ll see that yeh get it where the bottle got the cork.
at brass up (v.) under brass, n.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 124: Tip out the bunce, old sport.
at bunce, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 144: Don’t try and slip out and bung him the word.
at bung, v.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 213: ‘My word, she’s a little goer, eh?’ ‘You’re right. At that age, too! Fast little cat.’.
at cat, n.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 301: Goes out charing, or does needlework.
at char, v.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 31: Battling slouched out of the ring, still more determined to let the Chink have it where the chicken had the axe.
at where the chicken got the axe under chicken, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 42: Arab, Lascar [...] Chinky, Hindoo.
at Chinky, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 270: She’s too chippy.
at chippy, adj.2
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 151: His white girl, Pansy Greers, had given him the chuck.
at get the chuck (v.) under chuck, n.2
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 284: ‘That you, Monico?’ she asked, peering through the gloom. ‘You’ve clicked.’.
at click, v.3
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 260: Lois swung herself from the lounge and began to ‘cook’ for her boy.
at cook, v.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 145: She should very terribly cop out if she failed in that charge.
at cop out, v.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 135: She was known to be a copper’s nark.
at copper’s nark (n.) under copper, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 211: My word. She’s a corker, eh?
at corker, n.2
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 240: He [...] stood back, only mildly interested in the lah-de-dah.
at la-di-da(h), n.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 253: First time I ever knew you pop a daisy on yer brother, though.
at daisy, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 311: The Chink, looking across Perce’s shoulder, gave a sharp cry [...] ‘Dekko!’ Perce obeyed sharply. And he saw the giant corpse.
at dekko, v.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 155: He was a dreadful doper. Sometimes he would chew betel nut or bhang or hashish, but mostly it was a big jolt of yen-shi.
at doper, n.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 106: Fancy thinking I’d take him on! [...] I pretty quick dropped it across him, you bet.
at drop it across (v.) under drop, v.1
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 308: Shut yeh silly face.
at shut one’s face (v.) under face, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 305: Old man’s got the fair fantods to-night.
at fantod, n.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 234: He had ‘raked’ and ‘glimmed’.
at glim, v.
[UK] T. Burke Limehouse Nights 213: ‘My word, she’s a little goer, eh?’ ‘You’re right. At that age, too! Fast little cat.’.
at goer, n.
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