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Dick Temple II 28: Lor a mussy [...] I’ve been and gone and forgot.at lor-a-massy/-mussy!, excl.
Dick Temple II 28: Lor a mussy [...] I’ve been and gone and forgot. Dick Temple I 41: ‘She was as mad as a March hare.’.at ...a (March) hare under mad as..., adj.
Dick Temple I 255: I haven’t done anything to be pertikler proud of [...] as regards the objik of my being put away.at put away, v.
Dick Temple III 171: A man [...] who has been stigmatised – a – a – chawbacon to his face, and spoken of as a yokel and a muff.at chaw-bacon, n.
Dick Temple I 220: If you’d ha’ guessed a inch wider o’ the mark, it would have been a inch to the bad.at to the bad under bad, n.
Dick Temple II 254: I’d dock off twenty per cent. of what I’d let you in for if you were out-and-out bad ’uns.at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
Dick Temple I 254: You’ll get the smoke down your throat and begin barking ag’in.at bark, v.2
Dick Temple III 177: The fluffy, broad-brimmed beaver.at beaver, n.1
Dick Temple I 24: A pair of small-beer roysterers.at small beer, adj.
Dick Temple I 49: Bit, by the holy poker!at bit, adj.
Dick Temple III 18: [He] inquired [...] of another when he last had a ride with ‘Black Maria’ – that term being robbers’ cant for the sombre police van.at Black Maria, n.
Dick Temple I 219: ‘What is a blinko, for instance?’ ‘Well, it’s a kind of entertainment, singing and that,’ replied the old fellow, ‘to which strangers are not invited – least of all the police.’.at blinko, n.1
Dick Temple I 253: ‘I’ve a blowed good mind,’ said Mr. Eggshells (only he used a stronger word than blowed.).at blowed, adj.1
Dick Temple II 66: The game’s blown, my girl.at blown, adj.
Dick Temple III 121: This blubber-headed clerk of mine?at blubber-head (n.) under blubber, n.2
Dick Temple III 160: My proposition, my brick, is [...] to make a bolt of it – you and I – to America.at bolt, n.1
Dick Temple III 160: My proposition, my brick, is [...] to make a bolt of it.at brick, n.
Dick Temple I 244: ‘Flashing’ the Brummagem jewellery which adorned their thievish fingers.at Brummagem, adj.
Dick Temple III 279: I’m here, my buck! what’s gone wrong?at buck, n.1
Dick Temple III 72: What a jolly, genial old buffer he is.at buffer, n.3
Dick Temple I 263: Your churchyard face is no ornament here, I can tell you.at burying face (n.) under bury, v.
Dick Temple III 35: It doesn’t matter how thick you butter me; they’ll swallow it.at butter, v.
Dick Temple I 251: His burning desire to take the carroty-headed scoundrel by the scruff of the neck.at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.
Dick Temple II 109: I shall catch it, of course. I’m supposed to be your guardian angel.at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
Dick Temple I 172: I am right choked off the story, mister, thanks all the same.at choke off, v.
Dick Temple I 23: If that did not choke him off, why, so much the better for us.at choke off, v.
Dick Temple II 251: I’ve felt like chucking up the whole game.at chuck up, v.2
Dick Temple III 190: The Billy to whom you are described as being ‘chuckleheaded’.at chuckleheaded, adj.
Dick Temple I 188: My eyes, that’s a clinker.at clinker, n.2
Dick Temple III 242: I will never marry a clodhopper. I will marry a gentleman.at clodhopper, n.
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