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[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 27 June 4/5: Now, there’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. There’s dead loads of good chances in that.
at dead loads (n.) under dead, adv.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 31 Oct. 4/3: Allright [...] I’ll only patronise sentimental good-natured eating-house men. Now, I’m going across the way [...] to the opposition hash-house.
at hash-house, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 15 May 3/2: [headline] Uneasiness in Kaffirland.
at Kaffirland (n.) under kaffir, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 23 Oct. 2/2: I once got £573 in one dip [...] out of a gentleman’s pocket.
at dip, n.1
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 23 Apr. 2/3: She stated that she had given birth to a child [...] and that she had [...] hid it underneath the jawbox in her father’s kitchen.
at jarbox, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 2 Oct. 2/3: The ‘hot potato — all hot’ business [...] is not sufficient to supply the craving of the purchasers of roasted ‘murphies’.
at murphy, n.1
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 4 Aug. n.p.: Mr Fresh (the silly ‘bloke’), / Who does his cash in Wall Street soak, / And goes home later, flat-dead broke — That’s a lamb.
at flat broke, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 4 Aug. n.p.: Mr Fresh (the silly ‘bloke’), / Who does his cash in Wall Street soak, / And goes home later, flat-dead broke — That’s a lamb.
at lamb, n.1
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 7 Oct. 4/1: Don’t you see how I played it on him!
at play, v.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 7 Oct. 4/1: Oh, it’s altogether too rich.
at rich, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Express 17 May 4/2: He no sooner had the words out of his mouth than ‘biff’ went a canvasman’s fist in his face.
at biff!, excl.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 12 July 4/1: He required Joseph Ryan to ‘keep cave’ while he gathered up the coin.
at keep cave (v.) under keep, v.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Express 28 Feb. 2/1: The knight of the needle must have been one of those excellent persons who never prophesy unless they know.
at ...the needle under knight of the..., n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 30 May 4/1: It is as easy as falling off a log to be a philanthropist with other people’s money.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 10 Nov. 4/1: I wonder is that a hint to me to [...] be only ‘daisypicker’ whenever [...] accompanying you and him in your walks.
at daisy-picker (n.) under daisy, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 13 Mar. 8/5: IMr inglis considered that a somewhat left-handed compliment.
at left-handed compliment (n.) under left-handed, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 7 June 4/1: In aiming a kiss at a Chicago girl’s mouth and missing it [...] he must have had the blind staggers.
at staggers, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 15 June 2/6: The bookseller, who he depicts [...] as ‘very tall, thin, ungainly, white-faced, splay-footed and baker-kneed’.
at baker-kneed, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 27 Mar. 2/8: A sad case of child murder [...] the body was lying in the jaw-box.
at jarbox, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 13 Oct. 3/1: What sort of a carry-on was this at the picnic?
at carry-on, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 27 July 3/1: [The] witness explained that he was a ‘nickum’ [...] Francis found a ‘quid’ of tobacco on him, and accused him of stealing a penny to buy it.
at nickum, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Express 21 Mar 3/2: We have got a blank blank old general here who’s mad on it, and we are here on fatigue duty.
at blank, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 14 Jan. 2/3: The ‘cushion cuffer’, the soporiphic drawler may be endured, but the cleric who [etc.].
at cushion-cuffer (n.) under cushion, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Exp. 16 Oct. 4/8: ‘Where’s Mrs Gabber?’ [...] ‘Somebody told her an important secret and she has been out and about all day going from house to house visiting friends’.
at gabber, n.2
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 6 Apr. 5/2: ‘Don’t get gay,’ warned the copper.
at get gay (with) (v.) under gay, adj.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 20 Jan. 2/6: Leave me [...] Petty abroad, and at home Jerry Sneak. Yes, I must have my Quizzes.
at jerry sneak, n.1
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Express 21 Mar 3/2: One day, taking an early stroll in mufti, he saw three or four pirates raking about.
at mufti, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 20 Jan. 2/6: Leave my Chancellor Pepys, so grave and so greasy / [...] / Oh! leave me Spring Rice, so pert, yet so looney — / And Pallet, whom Lady — christened her Spooney. / Yes, leave me my Quizzes, for out of all question / A laugh, when one dines, is a help to digestion.
at quiz, n.
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Express 21 Mar 3/2: One day, taking an early stroll in mufti, he saw three or four pirates raking about.
at rake, v.1
[Scot] Aberdeen Eve. Exp. 29 Aug. 2/6: [headline] Lardy-Dardy Swell.
at lardy-dardy, adj.
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