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Mysterious Beggar 331: ‘Give us a bouncin’ “B” on it.’ (The ‘B’ in Jip’s nomenclature standing for ‘Buss’.).at b, n.1
Mysterious Beggar 331: ‘Give us a bouncin’ “B” on it.’ (The ‘B’ in Jip’s nomenclature standing for ‘Buss’.). Mysterious Beggar 208: ‘Many of these people simulate – pretend to be suffering, when they re not.’ ‘You mean the bams; the scrapers?’.at bam, n.1
Mysterious Beggar 267: ‘Tell all the Bobbies on this beat!’ suggested Burle sarcastically.at bobby, n.1
Mysterious Beggar 301: An old buffer who works s’hard as I do of a Sunday, needs a little comfortable relaxation.at buffer, n.3
Mysterious Beggar 254: He ain’t no buffle head.at bufflehead, n.
Mysterious Beggar 335: But you two mus’ promis’ not t’ buzz this biz ’round anywheres.at buzz, v.1
Mysterious Beggar 219: You’re a buzzer.at buzzer, n.3
Mysterious Beggar 214: I mean th’ holy Joes: th’ cushion smiters. Them as holds a palaver uv a Sunday in th’ cackle tubs in th’ big churches.at cackle tub (n.) under cackle, v.
Mysterious Beggar 212: That you could ‘catch on’ as you say. That you could ‘twig’.at catch on, v.
Mysterious Beggar 270: I smiled an abnegatin’ Curb-Stone-Chapel smile on him, and then handed out Takemein’s letter. The old cheese! He took it in, sure ’nough! He read it all through; v-e-r-r-y slow.at cheese, n.1
Mysterious Beggar 203: I’m no chicken cully. Like ’nough, ’fore y’ know’t, I’ll chug onta sumph’n that’ll make us all cock-a-hoop.at chicken, adj.
Mysterious Beggar 208: ‘The chippers for a fye-buck?’ next suggested Jip [...] ‘Th’ cheats; th’ shams; th’ small funks?’ he hastily supplemented.at chipper, n.3
Mysterious Beggar 226: He don’t sling a very chippery lip th’s mornin’.at chipper, adj.
Mysterious Beggar 335: Th’ Doc., he’s put a screw on my patter, an’ I dusn’t rattle my clackbox too much.at clack-box (n.) under clack, n.
Mysterious Beggar 270: He came near forgettin’ th’ clincher I mos’ wanted.at clincher, n.1
Mysterious Beggar 216: She kin swing ’round a nour or so, an’ cum in with a big riffle. When she’s home though, she works th’ growler heavy; an’ ’er clinkers don’ last ’er long.at clinker, n.3
Mysterious Beggar 245: Durn her cartilaginous old clod-skippers! I wish they’d stumble her over something and break her wizened old neck!at clodhopper, n.
Mysterious Beggar 264: If you’re a bit skeery, then ’till the thing’s well coppered, you can nark ’round on the sly.at copper, v.1
Mysterious Beggar 266: I touched his liver, / From my quiver / With my ‘Curbstone Chapel’ whopper. [Ibid.] 268: The Reverend Jeremiah’s a lame slouch, if he can’t duplicate Jen’s cents with ‘Curbstone Chapel’ Dollars!at curbstone chapel (n.) under curbstone, adj.
Mysterious Beggar 214: I mean th’ holy Joes: th’ cushion smiters. Them as holds a palaver uv a Sunday in th’ cackle tubs in th’ big churches.at cushion-smiter (n.) under cushion, n.
Mysterious Beggar 216: She takes a young gal ’long with her. She puts bellerdoner [...] in ’er own eyes. Then th’ young pullet leads ’er [...] That’s th’ ‘blind dodge’, y’ know.at dodge, n.
Mysterious Beggar 336: Y’ know my little dot, I’m dead gone on yer.at dot, n.2
Mysterious Beggar 330: We’ve dropped! [...] By golly! We’ve twigged their ‘shady.’ We’ve holed the old cadgers!at drop, v.4
Mysterious Beggar 210: You bet th’ whole pile in y’r dummy.at dummy, n.2
Mysterious Beggar 334: ‘Workin’ it down,’ be ye, y’ ole swivel eye!at swivel-eye, n.
Mysterious Beggar 265: The old duffer’s a fat goose, and he must shell out handsome.at fat, adj.
Mysterious Beggar 333: Oh you old snoozer! [...] Wouldn’t I mop th’ floor with ye! Ye ugly old file!at file, n.1
Mysterious Beggar 271: I put it to him steep; and, my boy, [...] he riz to the fly!at fly, n.2
Mysterious Beggar 213: We calls ’em ‘High-Flyers’ [...] ’cause they fly their kites fer high game. Them’s th’ ones as goes fer th’ big nobs on Clint’n Avernu.at high-flyer, n.
Mysterious Beggar 253: After pouring out a liberal sample of its ‘forty-rod’ capability, he slowly ‘absorbed’ the same.at forty-rod (lightning) (n.) under forty, adj.1
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