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[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 55: One day he walked straight into this kitchen clobbered in a pair of rounds, tight to his legs, [...] and ’alf a dollar round his bushell and a long sleeve cadi on his napper.
at half-a-dollar, n.1
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 46: ‘All serene,’ says he.
at all serene, adj.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 48: I always indulge in a little brian or finger in my bohee. Saturday you see is pay day, so I always get a drop for me and old Bottle Nose then.
at finger and thumb, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 55: One day he walked straight into this kitchen clobbered in a black pair of rounds, tight to his legs, [...] and ’alf a dollar round his bushell and a long sleeve cadi on his napper.
at bushel (and peck), n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 41: A lot of retired tradesmen and half-pay officers, all pride and pockets, as we called ’em.
at pride-and-pockets, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 11: Did you frog it or come by the rattler?
at frog and toad, v.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 55: Truefitts chucked him, and off he goes on the frog.
at on the frog under frog (and toad), n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 12: They all burst out laughing, and one said, ‘John Audley,’ that means ‘Leave off’.
at John Audley, phr.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 86: Thin bad scran to her.
at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 19: Bad cess to the dhirty blackguards.
at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 58: You must know that my old pot was a bark.
at bark, n.2
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 47: Alright, give me due beonck quatro soldi per run and I’ll bring you the duckets.
at beong, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 13: I should just think you would beg my pardon and to show you mean it stand a couple of shants of bevarly to square the boys.
at bev, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 38: And of course your dear brother artistes go off and tell all their friends how you got the bird.
at get the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 49: A tall man appeared, with [...] a bird’s eye tie, a white clobber, a black waistcoat, a light-coloured overcoat and a tall white hat.
at bird’s eye, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 28: I had to do banjo now, so I had to black, and very particular they were blacking.
at black, v.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 19: Bad cess to the dhirty blackguards.
at blackguard, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 67: When I left you on the course to go on a blind hooky job for the boss.
at blind hookey (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 76: We came back and the starter blew me up, and I said it was the oss’s fault.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 91: Drink was all that would chase away the blue devils.
at blue devils, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 21: I had become an acknowledged member of the gutter minstrel profession, [...] though my soul boggled at times at this.
at boggle, v.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 45: ‘What say to bohee?’ [...] We fell in with some hot bohee.
at George Bohee, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 45: Well, you look bona, and so does your mate?
at bona, adj.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 11: But say, culls, that clobber vardys bono.
at bono, adj.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 42: At half-past ten six of us went out black, the bosh faker, the grid faker, two Joes, Tots and Tarblo.
at bosh-faker (n.) under bosh, n.2
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 12: We never count the denarley on the pitch, but put each man’s bottle into the sack just as it is till sharing time.
at bottle, n.2
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 48: I always get a drop for me and old Bottle Nose.
at bottle-nose, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 84: Let’s have a drop of brian, Blower, I’m dry.
at Brian O’Linn, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 11: When did you come into [...] Jim Brown?
at jim brown, n.
[UK] P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 92: It was Brommagem swag she grafted, you bet.
at Brummagem, adj.
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