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[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 221: He’d better show a leg if he don’t want the rat’s tail.
at show a leg, v.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 234: Well, look here, bad cess to it, of coorse.
at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 227: You idiot waistrel, why d’ye stand prating there? I’ll pay you, you beachcomber.
at beachcomber, n.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 48: ‘To the father of the girl’s by-blow,’ he shouted.
at by-blow, n.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 20: How does the girl come by her fine feathers if her mother lives on charity?
at feathers, n.1
[US] H. Caine Deemster n.p.: Kidnapped? No such matter... What pedlar’s French! [OED].
at pedlar’s French, n.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 16: And a shocking powerful head-piece at him for all.
at head-piece, n.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster Ch. xxxiii: Poor Mastha Dan had been [...] jiggered up in Peel Castle.
at jigger, v.2
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 220: ‘Don’t mind the loblolly boys, Davy,’ he said coaxingly.
at loblolly boy (n.) under loblolly, n.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster II 158: If I was the ould Bishop’s son I’d hould my luff too.
at luff, n.1
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 142: It’s morthal strange the way a man of your common sense can’t see that you’d wallop that squeaking ould Jemmy Quirk in a jiffy.
at mortal, adv.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster II 143: I’ll go bail the ould polecat’s got summat to answer for.
at polecat, n.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 86: It’s the narves, boy, the narves, and a drop of the real stuff is worth a Jew’s eye for studdying a man after a night of it.
at real thing, the, n.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 211: The cook, better known as the slushy, came up the hatchways with a huge saucepan.
at slushy, n.
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 234: Give us a swipe o’ them speerits.
at swipe, n.1
[UK] H. Caine Deemster I 227: I’m right up and down like a yard o’ pump water, that’s what I am.
at yard of pump water (n.) under yard, n.4
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