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[Scot] Alnwick Mercury 1 July 10/3: The artist [...] had some trouble in discovering a suitable head for the drunken tinker.
at drunken tinker, n.
[Scot] Alnwick Mercury 9 Sept. 3/6: Snakes alive, it were just as nateral as slidin’ down a hill!
at snakes (alive)!, excl.
[Scot] Alnwick Mercury 22 Dec. 3/5: First Swell: I suppose old Plevna was a vewy gweat genewal, else they wouldn’t make such a doosid fuss about him.
at deuced, adv.
[Scot] Alnwick Mercury 11 Oct. 3/5: The young male [...] is the son of some one of the coin aristocracy [...] his ‘guv’ will ‘cut up fat’ for a million or two.
at cut up fat (v.) under cut up, v.2
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