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Dottings of a Dosser choose

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[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 115: Nothing can be more easy than to have the houses in [...] apple-pie order when the inspector comes round.
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 43: The neighbours being, most of them, ‘in the same box,’ would neither complain or give evidence.
at in the same box under box, n.1
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 136: If the winter be long and hard, men will ‘clem,’ women will wail, and children cry for bread.
at clem, v.
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 58: Look ’ere, cocky, I tell yer if you’ve any wish to keep yer togs safe put ’em under yer piller.
at cocky, n.1
[UK] Howard Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 79: A blear-eyed old woman [...] addressed as ‘Anna,’ ‘old death’s ’ead,’ and ‘old ’ooman’.
at death’s head (n.) under death, n.
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 111: The best way to ensure such an object is to entrust the execution of the measure to ‘the Dodo of Scotland Yard’.
at dodo, n.
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 46: I was going to doss out, sir.
at doss out (v.) under doss, v.
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 8: These are the unfortunate creatures whose only home is the ‘doss-’ouse’.
at dosshouse, n.
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 81: ‘You’ve been drinkin’ at the Queen’s ’Ead and the Princess Alice,’ she shrieked. ‘You’ve been treatin’ yer flash girls, an you never offered me a drop.’.
at flash girl (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 45: ‘Where do you live?’ [...] ‘In a kip – doss – I mean lodgin’-’ouse, sir.’.
at kip, n.1
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 9: Their accounts determined me to see the ‘kip-’ouses’ from within.
at kiphouse (n.) under kip, n.1
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 62: Through Drury Lane, where two ‘nymphs of the pavement’ were.
at nymph of the pavé, n.
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 91: My assailant [...] averring that I was a ‘jolly old cock,’ and offering to ‘stand a pot’.
at pot, n.1
[UK] H. Goldsmid Dottings of a Dosser 105: He’d go to the pub and try to pross for a bloomin’ pint.
at pross, v.1
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