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The Adventures of Fudge Fumble choose

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[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 72: He [,...] would have fallen down, rolled over, and cut up a sight of di-do’s.
at cut up a dido, v.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 35: She could talk me all to pieces, even when I did my best.
at all to pieces, adv.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 39: A keen appetite has no conscience, and I blazed away.
at blaze away (v.) under blaze, v.2
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 195: ‘Smack’ went a kiss over her busser.
at busser, n.1
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 170: She was [...] a little chuckle-headed.
at chuckleheaded, adj.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 67: The lady was none of your chicken-hearted, crawfish lookin’ women.
at crawfish, n.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 61: I asked the young man if he would go down some night and give me a ‘knock down’ to the family.
at knock-down, n.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 100: When she took a liking to a man, she was very familiar, and would ‘love fit to kill’.
at fit to kill under fit to..., phr.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 26: I [...] said, ‘go it boots, your Daddy’s rich.’.
at go it, boots! (excl.) under go it!, excl.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 98: If I don’t give him the ‘goss’ the next time I catch him out, then my name ain’t Fumble, but a fool.
at give (the) goss (v.) under goss, n.1
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 51: The great American hero, ‘Old Hickory,’ was giving the British gunpowder-tea in real ‘Yankee style.’.
at gunpowder tea, n.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 28: I’ll Halifax you, my lad [...] and now you – whack, whack, whack – will take the hint, not to disobey orders again.
at Halifax, v.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 171: In less than three weeks I had got mad enough with her ‘humbuggery’.
at humbuggery, n.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 5: He would have an opportunity of ‘roughing it.’.
at rough it, v.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 79: we all went co-smash, rug, chug, changle, over to the bottom of the stairs.
at kersmash! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 205: I [...] laid hold of a big oak chair that I was sitting on, and down I brought it over Paddy’s noggin.
at noggin, n.1
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 135: You’ll never get a pull on me like some of the rest of the fair ones have done.
at pull, n.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 173: I thought she still might agree to make a husband of me, if she tried right hard, but she didn’t.
at right, adv.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 38: She was a little ‘spunky’.
at spunky, adj.
[US] M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 42: ‘Whop’ went ole Johnny’s foot on the piazza floor.
at whop!, excl.
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