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Pippins and Pies choose

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[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 66: He toll’d me with his own lips — I was the bell of all the aireys — and sich lips as he as Poll! oh my!
at airy, n.1
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 119: ‘Here’s a Bobby!’ cried a shrill juvenile voice on the outskirts of the crowd.
at bobby, n.1
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 102: It was no easy matter, though, to crush Miss Flathers—who was what sailors call ‘broad in the beam’.
at broad in the beam (adj.) under broad, adj.
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 124: Here’s a pretty business.
at business, n.
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 66: The affair with the cook and the phosphorus was the cause of Master Frank being ‘carpeted’.
at carpet, v.
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 26: Bob Smart, who was such a jolly chap!
at chap, n.
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 139: A boy [...] gave it as his opinion, that it was ‘all gammon,’ and that the cove was a ‘regular do’.
at do, n.
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 119: ‘Fine sparra-gra-a-a-ss!’ added a perambulating costermonger.
at sparrow-grass, n.
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 66: He doan’t care a might about that red-hared creetur at number 19.
at mite, n.
[UK] Pippins and Pies 9: I have four of them, sir; and I don’t wish to boast, but this I’m bound to say—that four sweeter lovelier popsies, never blessed—.
at popsie, n.1
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 89: ‘Jolly row!’ observed Harry Bumpstead.
at row, n.1
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 35: The young man [...] had been invited to supper by the cook, and was indulging in a pipe of the fragrant weed after refreshment.
at weed, n.1
[UK] J.S. Coyne Pippins and Pies 29: The three Bumpsteads, who whacked the three biggest boys in the school one morning.
at whack, v.1
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