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The Spectre Knight choose

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[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Spectre Knight 12: If you attempt to be coming over this young woman wid any of your Brummajem blarney, perhaps I may be under the necessity of giving you a rap.
at Brummagem, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Spectre Knight 16: His mind he’d to mugging been giving.
at mug, v.1
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Spectre Knight 30: Psha! Paddy hold your prate.
at Paddy, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Spectre Knight 12: Here’s a rumfoozle for you – to come all the way from Ireland to serve a Scotch Master who was kilt by a French Foreigner; and then to have my sweetheart stole away by an English Rival.
at rumfoozle, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Spectre Knight 15: Sandy Grey was a bit of a ranter, O, he was the Highlander gay.
at Sandy, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Spectre Knight 15: He’d empty a flask down his throttle.
at throttle, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Spectre Knight 15: He’d so often be wetting his whistle.
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
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