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[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 390: To think of lummy Jack — the Dodger — the Artful Dodger — going abroad for a common two-penny-half-penny sneeze-box!
at abroad, adj.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 404: The pots I took off airy railings.
at airy, n.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 254: It’s all up, Bill! [...] drop the kid and show ’em your heels.
at all up, adj.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 88: ‘A regular right-down bad ’un, Work’us,’ replied Noah.
at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 73: There! Get down stairs, little bag o’ bones.
at bag of bones, n.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 210: ‘Barkers for me, Barney,’ said Toby Crackit. ‘Here they are,’ replied Barney, producing a pair of pistols.
at barker, n.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 391: All the big-wigs trying to look solemn, and Jack Dawkins addressing of ’em as intimate and comfortable as if he was the judge’s own son making a speech arter dinner.
at bigwig, n.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 118: Now, young gallows.
at gallows-bird, n.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 142: If he means to blab us among his new friends, we may stop his mouth yet.
at blab, v.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 297: Who would have thought it! Blast him, he’d start up from a marble coffin, to come in my way!
at blast, v.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 135: What the blazes is in the wind now?
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 138: She merely expressed an emphatic and earnest desire to be ‘blessed’ if she would.
at blessed, adj.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 182: ‘Where’s your spirit? Don’t you take any pride out of yourself?’ [...] ‘Oh, blow that!’ said Master Bates.
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 137: ‘I’m afraid [...] that he may do something which will get us into trouble.’ ‘That’s very likely,’ returned Sikes with a malicious grin. ‘You’re blowed upon, Fagin.’.
at blown, adj.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 444: Why didn’t you, blunder-head?
at blunderhead, n.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 351: ‘It’s all very well,’ said Mr. Sikes; ‘but I must have some blunt from you tonight.’ ‘I haven’t a piece of coin about me,’ replied the Jew.
at blunt, n.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 101: I’m at low-water mark myself — only one bob and a magpie.
at bob, n.3
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 107: Five of ’em strung up in a row, and none left to play booty, or turn white-livered!
at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 256: There’s no call to tell a man he is, so bounceably.
at bounceable, adj.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 101: He purchased a sufficiency of ready-dressed ham and a half-quartern loaf, or, as he himself expressed it, ‘a fourpenny bran!’.
at bran, n.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 66: Mr. Bumble was stupefied with astonishment. A beadle ordered to hold his tongue! A moral revolution!.
at bumble, n.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 184: He had not touched a drop of anything for forty-two mortal long hard-working days; and that he ‘wished he might be busted if he warn’t as dry as a lime-backet’.
at busted, adj.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 388: It’s your object to take care of number one — meaning yourself!
at take care of number one, v.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 159: He’s as willing as a Christian, strike me blind if he isn’t!
at Christian, n.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 134: ‘Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn’t, and high cockolorum,’ said the Dodger.
at high cockalorum!, excl.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 351: ‘I haven’t a piece of coin about me,’ replied the Jew.
at coin, n.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 279: Why didn’t you up and collar him?
at collar, v.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 192: You know there are fifty boys snoozing about Common Garden every night.
at Common Garden, n.
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist 192: Conkey means Nosey, ma’am.
at conk, n.1
[UK] Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 279: ‘This here is Conkey Chickweed — ’ ‘Conkey means Nosey, ma’am,’ interposed Duff.
at conky, n.
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