1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 207: Damn it, old man, when I arrived here three months ago without a bean [...] you backed me up.at bean, n.1
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 160: Vickery having gone to see some municipal bigwig, I went down to the Apollo by myself.at bigwig, n.
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 251: That’s not enough to keep an expensive bit of goods like you on.at bit of goods, n.
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 156: ‘God, what a crew!’ said Mr Scarfe looking round him.at crew, n.
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 203: Poor old Pemberton was very cut up about that.at cut up, adj.1
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 110: I had had a presentiment that my immediate neighbours would be duds from the point of view of company, and duds they were.at dud, n.2
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 228: Do you remember Pemberton’s story about my being mixed up in a ramp with the Baltic and Eastern Industrial Bank?at ramp, n.2
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 2–3: Slaughter came in with news of a rare old shimozzle that was going on in the town.at shemozzle, n.
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 270: Pat said he wasn’t a Cissie, so Watterson asked her how she was in a position to tell; which caused much laughter.at sissy, n.
1936 D. Footman Pig and Pepper (1990) 32: He had a business in Warsaw and went smash.at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1