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[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 157: With your apishness and absurdity however you have taught me one thing.
at ape, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 91: Ass! Scoundrel!
at ass, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 35: But God forever blast his soul.
at blast, v.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 103: Go, shrink into your miserable self! Begone, and never let me be blasted with your sight again!
at blasted, adj.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 91: Tell Swineard – if he makes the least boggling, it is as much as his life is worth – he shall starve by inches.
at boggle, v.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 267: By God, and I do not know whether it be or no! I am afraid we are in the wrong box!
at box, n.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 91: Why she does not owe you a brass farthing: she has always lived upon your charity!
at brass farthing (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 247: But, as it was, I had no leisure to chew the cud upon misfortunes as they befel me.
at chew the cud, v.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 243: You are not such a chicken as to suppose, if so be as you are innocent, that that will make your game altogether sure.
at chicken, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 68: And shall I now be brow-beaten by a chitty-faced girl?
at chitty-face, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 260: He dogged her from street to street.
at dog, v.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 73: ‘By Gemini,’ said he ‘my heart was in my mouth.’.
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 234: Poh, that is all my granny! Some folks must be hanged, to keep the wheels of our state-folks a-going.
at my granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 235: And he made the hell of a rumpus, and sent away Kit to prison in a twinky.
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 44: Oh, yes, he had it all hollow!
at hollow, adv.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 100: The neighbourhood appeared more and more every day to be growing too hot for him to endure, and it became evident that he would ultimately be obliged to quit the country.
at hot, adj.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 122: Squire Tyrrel is very headstrong, and you, your honour, might be a little hottish, or so.
at hot, adj.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 32: The activity of his mind [...] showed itself in the rude tricks of an overgrown lubber.
at lubber, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 122: If we little folks had but the wit to do for ourselves, the great folks would not be such maggotty changelings as they are.
at maggoty, adj.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 81: The poorest neger, as a man might say, has some point that he will not part with.
at nigger, n.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 212: Damn me, tip us none of your palaver; we have heard that story of a poor traveller any time these five years.
at palaver, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 178: How smoothly you palavered it over, for all the world, as if you had been as fair as a new-born babe.
at palaver, v.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 35: It was impossible that people could seriously feel any liking for such a ridiculous piece of goods.
at piece of goods (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 77: I know none of the neighbouring gentry will, for fear, as they say, of encouraging their own tenants to run rusty.
at run rusty (v.) under rusty, adj.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 243: If therefore you will give us them there fifteen shiners, why snug is the word.
at shiner, n.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 243: If therefore you will give us them there fifteen shiners, why snug is the word.
at snug’s the word!, excl.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 212: Damn me, tip us none of your palaver.
at tip, v.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 62: By and by she would be a whore, and at last no better than a common trull, and rot upon a dunghill.
at trull, n.
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 235: And he made a hell of a rumpus and sent away Kit to prison in a twinky.
at twink, n.1
[UK] W. Godwin Caleb Williams (1966) 222: Because I laugh at assizes, and great wigs, and the gallows.
at wig, n.2
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