1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 74: As it’s rather late, I’ll try and get a wink or two of the balmy.at balmy, the, n.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 225: He never took a dice-box in his hand, or held a card, but he was plucked, pigeoned, and cleaned out completely.at cleaned (out), adj.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 140: Respect associations Tommy, even if you do cut up rough.at cut up rough, v.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 264: Sally found you a second-hand stool, sir [...] She’s a rare fellow at a bargain, I can tell you.at fellow, n.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 62: What does it come to? That you become the sole inheritor of the wealth of this rich old hunks.at hunks, n.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 139: ‘Grinder’s lot’ approached with redoubled speed [...] Mr. Grinder’s company, familiarly termed a lot, consisted of a young gentleman and a young lady on stilts, and Mr. Grinder himself, who [...] carried at his back a drum.at lot, n.1
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 431: ‘To make it seem more real and pleasant, I shall call you the Marchioness, do you hear?’ The small servant nodded.at marchioness, n.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 431: Mr. Swiveller [...] slowly sipped the last choice drops of nectar.at nectar, n.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 23: What is the odds so long as the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?at what odds?, phr.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 61: It’s equally plain that the money which the old flint— rot him— first taught me to expect that I should share with him at his death, will all be hers.at old flint (n.) under old, adj.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 225: He never took a dice-box in his hand, or held a card, but he was plucked, pigeoned, and cleaned out completely.at pigeon, v.1
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 430: A quart pot filled with some fragrant compound, which [...] was indeed choice purl.at purl, n.1
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 270: Mr Swiveller replied that he had very recently been assuaging the pangs of thirst, but that he was still open to ‘a modest quencher.’.at quencher, n.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 160: He wished [...] he could make out whether he (Kit) was ‘precious raw’ or ‘precious deep’.at raw, adj.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 372: Ha ha ha! oh very rich, very rich indeed, remarkably so!at rich, adj.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 60: Richard Swiveller finished the rosy, and applied himself to the composition of another glassful.at rosy, the, n.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 305: A very spanking grey in that cab, sir, if you’re a judge of horse-flesh.at spanking, adj.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 22: Last night he had had ‘the sun very strong in his eyes’; by which expression he was understood to convey [...] that he had been extremely drunk.at be in the sun (v.) under sun, n.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 136: Trotters, which, with the prefatory adjective, Short, had been conferred upon him by reason of the small size of his legs.at trotter, n.