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Letters II (1739) 16: The Proof was once clear, however they have cook’d it since.at cook, v.1
Letters II (1739) 16: The Proof was once clear, however they have cook’d it since. Letters II (1739) 251: God bless the young Whelps, and for the old Dog there is less Matter
.at old dog, n.
Letters 167: Poor lovers like Hares in releifing time are fain to clicket up and down in the Gardins at Midnight.at clicket, v.
Letters II 407: Shadwell is of Opinion, that your Bully with his Box and his false Dice is an honester Fellow.at bully, n.1
Letters (1863) 56: The frank buyer – cometh near to what the seller seeketh, useth at last to refer the difference to his will, and so cutteth off the course of mutual prigging .at prig, v.2
Letters I (2008) 15 Dec. 406: He understands book-sellers’ trap as well as any man.at understand trap (v.) under trap, n.1
Letters 26 Sept. (1932) I 55: I hold it (so to speak) to be all Blarney.at blarney, n.1
Letters I 224: The London literati appear to me to be very much like little potatoes, that is no great things.at small potatoes, n.
1 Oct. in Letters II (1830) 541: I really think you should have more, if I evaporate within a reasonable time.at evaporate, v.
Letters II (1869) 45: I shall pass a couple of days at Bath and then go on to Brummy.at Brummy, n.
Letters (2004) 91: An expatriated parson [...] who gets his living by black jobs entirely and attends all the funerals of our country-men.at black job (n.) under black, adj.
in Letters (1894) I 153: A skunk was shot in our back-kitchen this morning. There were two of these ‘essence-peddlers,’ as Yankees call them.at essence-peddler (n.) under essence, n.1
letter 2 Nov. in Letters (1965) I 161: The frame for my water-colour has just come in and is spiffy cheesy jammy nobby [etc.] .at spiffy, adj.
letter 11 May in Letters (1965) I 193: I heard from MacCrae who offers £50 for the water-colour, with all manner of soap and sawder into the bargain — a princely style of thing.at soap, n.1
in Eliot Letters (1954) II 176: I will not [...] display the filthy contaminations of these hideous satyrs and smirking moralists [...] stink pots of humanity.at stinkpot, n.
letter 25 Nov. in Letters (1965) I 278: Hughes hearing this, in a fit of virtuous and friendly indignation, gave them a look up about it .at look-up, n.
letter 25 Nov. in Letters (1965) I 282: He has an irreconcilable grudge against a poor moke of a fellow called Archer Gurney .at moke, n.1
‘Mark Twain’ Letters I 323: A scheming, groveling mud-cat of a lawyer.at mudcat (n.) under mud, n.
Letters (1894) II 183: I am writing at this moment with spectacles (not nippers, mind you) across my prosaic nose .at nipper, n.2
Letters 1 Apr. in Haskins Pinckney B. S. Pinchback (1973) 242: They resort to the muscle employed on your Police Juryp.at muscle, n.
‘Mark Twain’ Letters (1917) II xxv. 445: It will ‘ball up’ the binderies again.at ball up, v.
Letters 1 525: London, where nobody goes to bed without a patent maul-proof nightcap and anti-cut-throat collar.at cut-throat, n.
letter 21 Feb. Letters (1967) 39: I enclose a P.C. wh. I had just written – it is no longer necessary – but you may as well post it .at p.c., n.
letter 10 Mar. Letters (1967) 48: It is the ‘après’ wh. spoofs us. [Ibid.] letter 11 Nov. 115: The Lord Mayorlet’s Tom Foolery was a nuisance. I spoofed it successfully by going from Limehouse to Bloomsbury by tram.at spoof, v.
Letters from Cambridge 47: He was as mad as a bear and [...] complained to my Tutor.at mad as..., adj.
Letters 46: Forker plade me a beestly trick the other day.at beastly, adj.
Letters 31: The cunning old rascal found me out, and barked like blazes for joy.at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
Letters from Cambridge 47: We fought and chucked the bread and butter at one another. I bunged his eye up with the pat of butter [...] and turned him out.at bung, v.1
Letters 9: I’m seriously thinking of chucking my Tripos.at chuck, v.2
Letters 117: Two chaps got nailed for cribbing yesterday.at crib, v.2
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