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[UK] Byron Beppo xxxv: No one notices, nor cares a pin.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] Byron Beppo xxxix: The Nursery still lisps out in all they utter – Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[UK] Byron Beppo xxxi: Dreading the deep damnation of his ‘bah!’.
at bah!, excl.
[UK] Byron Beppo lxix: But luckily these beauties are no ‘blues’.
at blue, n.1
[UK] Byron Beppo iv: They’d haul you o’er the coals [...] with every mother’s son.
at every mother’s son, n.
[UK] Byron Beppo xvi: For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs.
at ogle, n.
[UK] Byron Beppo v: You like by way of doublet, cape, or cloak, Such as in Monmouth Street, or in Rag Fair, would rig you out in seriousness or joke.
at rig, v.1
[UK] Byron Beppo ii: Prudery flings aside her fetter [...] Giggling with all the gallants who beset her; And there are songs and quavers, roaring, humming, Guitars, and every sort of strumming.
at strum, v.
[UK] Byron Beppo lxiii: A fifth’s look’s vulgar, dowdyish, and suburban.
at suburb, n.
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