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[UK] Disraeli Venetia III 178: I think I can show them a trick or two still.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia II 346: But how came this blow-up?
at blow-up, n.1
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 151: ‘Beruna!’ he shouted, ‘gibel a chiv for the gentry cove.’.
at chiv, n.1
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 153: Tip me the clank like a dimber mort, as you are.
at clank, n.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 150: Come old mort [...] tout the cobble-colter; are we to have darkmans upon us?
at cobble-colter, n.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia II 53: I was notorious at Eton for begging all their old manuscripts from boys [...] to crib from.
at crib, v.2
[UK] Disraeli Venetia bk 1 Ch. xiv n.p.: ’Tis a dimber cove, whispered one of the younger men to a companion [F&H].
at dimber, adj.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 150: Beruna, flick the panam.
at flick, v.1
[UK] Disraeli Venetia II 344: ‘Are you very drunk?’ ‘My dear fellow, I am as fresh as possible.’.
at fresh, adj.1
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 151: She brought the knife to Plantagenet [...] saying ‘Yam, yam, gentry cove’.
at gentry-cove (n.) under gentry, n.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 153: Trim a ken for the gentry cove.
at ken, n.1
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 153: Trim a ken for the gentry cove; he is no lanspresado, or I am a kinchin* (*Get a bed ready for the gentleman. He is no informer, or I am an infant).
at lancepresado, n.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 152: ‘We’ll make a Turkey merchant* of you yet,’ said an old gipsy. (*i.e. We will teach you to steal a turkey).
at merchant, n.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia III 179: A brutish mob in a fit of morality about to immolate a gentleman.
at mob, n.2
[UK] Disraeli Venetia II 343: Some good fellow nabbed by a baliff, or planted by his mistress. Signals of distress!
at plant, v.1
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 153: Queer cuffin will be the word yet, if we don’t tout.
at queer cuffin (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 153: ‘The gentry cove will be romboyled by his dam,’ said a third gipsy.
at romboyle, v.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 153: Queer cuffin will be the word yet, if we don’t tout.
at tout, v.
[UK] Disraeli Venetia I 151: She brought the knife to Plantagenet [...] saying ‘Yam, yam, gentry cove.’.
at yam, v.
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