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Little Ragamuffin 166: She paused [...] to exclaim, sneeringly — ‘You’re a nice article to read prayers to!’.at article, n.
Little Ragamuffin 166: She paused [...] to exclaim, sneeringly — ‘You’re a nice article to read prayers to!’. Little Ragamuffin 62: He’ll be rollin’ in as drunk as Davy’s sow!at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
Little Ragamuffin 48: There were three fashions for whiskers [...] ‘bacca pipe’ (the whiskers curled in tiny ringlets).at bacca-pipe (n.) under bacca, n.
Little Ragamuffin 352: Of all the strange stories I ever heard, this bangs everything.at bang, v.1
Little Ragamuffin 299: It’s always the same; meat to-day, banyan to-morrow – no certainty.at Banyan day, n.
Little Ragamuffin 121: What put barkin’ into your head, Smiffield? [...] Father a coster, then?at bark, v.2
Little Ragamuffin 88: A barker [...] was a boy who went along with a barrowman, wheeling his barrow to market, minding it while his master was buying his goods [and] helping him bawl out what he had to sell.at barker, n.1
Little Ragamuffin 219: Devil take ’em for a pair of beauties.at beauty, n.1
Little Ragamuffin 268: It’s werry fine to say, ‘What’s the use o’ standin’ still,’ when a feller’s fairly bellust off his legs.at bellowsed, adj.
Little Ragamuffin 149: Move off, young gallows.at gallows-bird, n.
Little Ragamuffin What with the walloping, and the skilly, and the blackhole, it’s [i.e. an orphanage] an awful place.at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
Little Ragamuffin 252: If [...] he had gone about whisperin’ and blowin’ on me, I b’lieve I should ha’ killed him.at blow, v.1
Little Ragamuffin 48: There were three fashions for whiskers [...] ‘blue cheek’ (the whisker shaved off, and leaving the cheek blue) [etc.].at blue cheek (n.) under blue, adj.1
Little Ragamuffin 115: Reg’lar in the blues you climbs up into your wan.at in the blues under blues, n.1
Little Ragamuffin 213: She [...] was called [...] by an appellation suggested by her visual deprivation, ‘Boss-eye.’.at boss-eye, n.
Little Ragamuffin 256: ‘Hop in there and get a pint of best brown.’ [...] I was served with my pint of brown brandy.at brown, n.
Little Ragamuffin 237: I’ll give him the lot, bust him! [...] Hang you! cuss you! bust you!at bust, v.1
Little Ragamuffin 307: The extry weight made the spout give way, and down he came a reg’ler buster.at buster, n.1
Little Ragamuffin 346: So far from encouraging me in dishonest courses, Long George never went out [...] without warning me against them. ‘Don’t you go making yourself busy.’.at get busy (v.) under busy, adj.
Little Ragamuffin 146: Butcher him! I’d give a penny to have hold on him just now.at butcher, v.1
Little Ragamuffin 12: He’s a butchering sight too fast, and so are you, you —! [Ibid.] 147: A butcherin’ little whelp.at butchering, adj.
Little Ragamuffin 234: You sets on cacklin’ at this ’ere rate afore he’s been in the house half-an-hour.at cackle, v.
Little Ragamuffin 219: The ‘cadger’ [...] is the whining beggar – the cowardly imposter [...] a sneaking, abject wretch.at cadger, n.
Little Ragamuffin 48: Calf-clingers (that is, trousers made to fit the leg as tight as a worsted stocking) [etc.].at calf-clingers, n.
Little Ragamuffin 121: ‘Are you goin’ a-tottin’, Smiffield?’ ‘No.’ [...] ‘Then what caper are you up to?’.at caper, n.2
Little Ragamuffin 87: The carneying two-faced Irish vagabond.at carney, v.
A Little Ragamuffin 184: Carrots ought to be here now.at carrots, n.
A Little Ragamuffin 216: You drunken, draggle-tail, carroty scoundrel.at carrotty, adj.
Little Ragamuffin 252: He’d ha ketched it pretty hot, and serve him right, too.at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
Little Ragamuffin 319: A hornpipe much in vogue in certain circles [...] and known as the ‘cellar flap.’.at cellar-flap, n.
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