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[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 133: Sausages, black and white puddings, bubble and squeak [...] came and went.
at bubble and squeak, n.1
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 253: I didn’t come to argfuefy.
at argufy, v.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 45: His chief intellectuial stimulus was an occasional argey-bargey that sprang up between Carshot and Buggins.
at argy-bargy, n.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 228: ‘Oh, blow!’ he said at last, and then viciously, ‘Blow!’.
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 240: Don’t you think anagrams are something chronic?
at something chronic (n.) under chronic, adj.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 20: There was something [...] about ‘examination success’ — though Woodrow, of course, disapproved of ‘cram’.
at cram, n.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 91: There would be paper and stamps needed in some abundance for answering advertisements [...] when he went ‘crib hunting’.
at crib, n.1
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 16: There was a corner under the ironing board which, by means of a shwl, could be made [...] a very decent cubby-house.
at cubby, n.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 171: I don’t want no gells in the place larfin’ at me '...] sniggerin’ and larfin’ and prancin’ and traipesin’ lardy da!
at la-di-da(h), adj.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 211: ‘Oh, desh!’ said Kipps.
at dash!, excl.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 75: Pouring himself out a second dose of whisky.
at dose, n.1
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 17: Drat and drabbit that young rascal! What’s he a-doing of now?
at drabbit!, excl.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 17: Drat and drabbit that young rascal! What’s he a-doing of now?
at drat, v.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 51: It is not quite the thing to walk abroad with a ‘feller’, much more to ‘spoon’ with him [...] it is considered a little ‘fast’.
at fast, adj.1
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 51: It is not quite the thing to walk abroad with a ‘feller’, much more to ‘spoon’ with him.
at fellow, n.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 78: Flats who join touring companies under the impression that they are actors.
at flat, n.2
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 114: Well, you are a young Gaby [...] There jest been seein’ what a Gaby like you ’ud do.
at gaby, n.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 28: ‘Get out,’ he gasped incredulously, ‘She ain’t your girl, Sid Pornick’.
at get out of here! (excl.) under get, v.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 205: ‘O Gum!’ he protested.
at gum, n.2
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 297: Specklated it! [...] played the ’ankeypankey jackass with everything we got.
at hankypanky, adj.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 88: He awoke with what Chitterlow had pronounced to be, quite indisputably, a Head and a Mouth.
at head, n.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 174: ‘!Ow’s that?’ said Kipps, a little hipped by Sid’s patent chagrin.
at hip, v.1
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 180: ‘What ho!’ said he at the sight of Kipps.
at what ho!, excl.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 296: ’E’s speculated their money, and now ’e’s took ’is hook.
at sling one’s hook, v.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 79: I tell you, you’d knock William Archer into fits.
at knock into a cocked hat (v.) under knock into, v.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 88: Chitterlow [...] admitted being a ‘bit off it’ himself and in need of an egg-cup of brandy.
at off it, adj.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 47: And there was a terrible something called the ‘swap’, or ‘the key of the street’.
at key of the street (n.) under key, n.1
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 81: You can’t knock ’em up now [...] You’d better try and sneak in in in the morning with the cat.
at knock up, v.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 200: That poem knocked me! I won’t say that Kipling hasn’t knocked me before and since, but that was a Fair Knock Out.
at knockout, n.
[UK] H.G. Wells Kipps (1952) 49: Pearce [...] was by way of being what was called a Masher and [...] discussions about collars, ties, the cut of trouser-legs [...] were held.
at masher, n.
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