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[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 201: ‘Sir,’ said Mr Tupman, ‘you’re a fellow.’ ‘Sir,’ said Mr Pickwick, ‘You’re another.’.
at you’re another!, excl.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 524: Vel [...] if this don’t beat cock-fightin’, nothin’ never vill.
at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 562: ‘Will you take three bob?’ ‘And a bender,’ suggested the clerical gentleman... ‘What do you say, now? We’ll pay you out for three-and-sixpence a week. Come!’.
at bender, n.1
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 642: A gentleman with one eye, and the landlord, who were drinking a bowl of bishop together.
at bishop, n.2
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 727: ‘Pell,’ he used to say to me many a time. ‘How the blazes you can stand the head-work you do, is a mystery to me.’.
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 432: ‘Vell, Sammy’, said the father. ‘Vell, my Prooshun Blue’, responded the son.
at my Prussian blue, phr.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 685: ‘Ungrammatical twaddler, was it, Sir?’ said Pott. ‘Yes, Sir, it was, [...] and blue bore, Sir, if you like that better.’.
at blue boar (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 568: Lie in bed — starve — die — Inquest — little bone-house.
at bone-house (n.) under bone, n.1
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 103: Poor Quanko – never recovered it – bowled on, on my account –; bowled off, on his own – died, sir.
at bowl off (v.) under bowl, v.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 25: Bad silver — Brummagem buttons — won’t do — no go — eh?
at Brummagem button (n.) under Brummagem, adj.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 290: ‘He’s a-cabbin’ it, I suppose?’ said the father.
at cab, v.1
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 431: The numerous cads and drivers of short stages who assemble near that famous place of resort.
at cad, n.1
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 560: He was a horse-chaunter: he’s a leg now.
at chanter, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 542: You’ll be chummed on somebody to-morrow.
at chum, v.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 559: Accomodation, eh? [...] Plenty of that Mr. Pickvick. Your chummage ticket will be on twenty-seven, in the third.
at chummage, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 562: The regular chummage is two-and-sixpence.
at chummage, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 586: Do you alvays smoke arter you goes to bed, old cock?
at old cock, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 25: If I’d been your friend in the green jemmy — damn me — punch his head — — cod I would.
at cod, n.1
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 589: Hear him come the four cats in the wheelbarrow – four distinct cats; sir, I pledge you my honour. Now you know that’s infernal clever.
at come the..., v.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 523: He’s in a horrid state o’ love; reg’larly comfoozled, and done over with it.
at comfoozled, adj.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 548: ‘He run a match agin the constable, and vun it.’ ‘In other words [...] he got into debt?’.
at outrun the constable, v.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 679: He crammed for it, to use a technical but expressive term; he read up for the subject, at my desire, in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
at cram, v.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 422: Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
at crib, v.1
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 578: P’raps I may say I von’t pay, and cut up rough.
at cut up rough, v.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 640: The young lady said in the wery beginnin’ o’the keepin’ company that she couldn’t abide him. Nobody’s cut him out, and it ’ud ha’ been just the wery same for him if the young lady had never seen Mr Vinkle.
at cut out, v.2
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 356: ‘So we’ll just give ourselves a damp, Sammy.’ Saying this, Mr. Weller mixed two glasses of spirits and water.
at damp, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 508: Ben [...] bring out the patent digester. Mr. Benjamin Allen [...] produced [...] a black bottle half full of brandy.
at patent-digester, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 48: Rum fellow — does the heavy business — no actor — strange man — all sorts of miseries — dismal Jemmy, we call him on the circuit.
at dismal jimmy, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 640: ‘It’s a conspiracy,’ said Ben Allen. ‘A regular plant,’ added Bob Sawyer. [...] ‘Nothing but a do,’ remarked Martin.
at do, n.
[UK] Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 523: He’s in a horrid state o’ love; reg’larly comfoozled, and done over with it.
at do over, v.
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