1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 260: Her attention was attracted to that Bark A-1, when she was something flushed by the hot weather.at A-1, adj.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 280: ‘I appeal to our mutual friend Smallweed whether he has or has not heard me remark that I can’t make him out.’ Mr. Smallweed bears the concise testimony, ‘A few!’.at few!, a, excl.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 87: ‘Blest!’ says Mr. Guppy, staring in a kind of dismay at his friend, ‘if I can ever have seen her’.at blessed, adj.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 806: And the whole bileing of people was mixed up in the same business, and no other.at whole boiling lot, n.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 787: Although he always knew she was the best-groomed woman in the stud, he had no idea she was a bolter.at bolter, n.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 105: Egbert [...] demanded a shilling of me, on the ground that his pocket-money was ‘boned’ from him.at bone, v.1
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 296: Bosh! It’s all correct. You needn’t be afraid to order the pipe.at bosh!, excl.1
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 224: Him wot give him his writing, and give me half a bull.at half-a-bull (n.) under bull, n.3
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 280: Such an old card as this; so deep, so sly, and so secret.at card, n.2
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 311: There is much reference to Mr. Snagsby whether he means Carrots, or the Colonel, or Gallows, or Young Chisel, or Terrier Tip, or Lanky, or the Brick.at carrots, n.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 311: There is much reference to Mr. Snagsby whether he means Carrots, or the Colonel, or Gallows, or Young Chisel, or Terrier Tip, or Lanky, or the Brick.at chisel, n.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 79: ‘Why, what a cod’s head and shoulders I am,’ said Mr. Jarndyce.at cod’s head, n.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 383: If you had only settled down, and married Joe Pouch’s widow when he died in North America, she’d have combed your hair for you.at comb someone’s hair (v.) under comb, v.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 127: ‘I should like to ask you anything, without offence’ [...] ‘Cut away, then!’.at cut, v.1
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 144: A vocalist [...] who is released upon the flight of the rest, on condition of his getting out of this then, come! and cutting it — a condition he immediately observes.at cut it (to) (v.) under cut, v.2
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 342: I have had French women come before now and show themselves dabs at pistol-shooting.at dab, n.1
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 405: Now — I — dash it! — The fact is, that I put down a head or two here of the order of the points I thought of touching upon.at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 280: Such an old card as this; so deep, so sly, and so secret.at deep, adj.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 179: ‘To tell you the truth, Guardian, I rather expected it.’ ‘The deuce you did!’ said he.at deuce, the, phr.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 353: He’s welcome to drop into me, right and left, if he likes.at drop into (v.) under drop, v.1
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 224: I’m fly, [...] But fen larks, you know. Stow hooking it!at fen...!, excl.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 143: In consequence of young Perkins having ‘fetched’ young Piper ‘a crack’.at fetch, v.2
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 224: I’m fly [...] But fen larks, you know! Stow hooking it!at fly, adj.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 558: The same vocalist ‘gags’ in the regular business like a man inspired.at gag, v.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 200: Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.at gammon and spinach (n.) under gammon, n.2
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 265: I am obliged to take him into custody. He’s as obstinate a young gonoph as I know.at gonnof, n.
1853 Dickens Bleak House (1991) 142: He was in want of copying work to do, and was — not to put too fine a point upon it — [...] hard up!at hard-up, adj.