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[UK] ‘Fashionable Characters: A Kiddy’ in Oracle n.p.: ‘One of the beaks told me, that instead of crossing the herringpond at the expense of Government, I should now pay my respects to the nabbing cheat’.
at nabbing cheat, n.
[UK] Oracle XII 28: And nightly I painted, Vermillion, the town; / Or with flashes of crimson, I varied the hue, / While language Soph’moric, Would make the air blue.
at make the air blue (v.) under blue, adj.3
[UK] Oracle XII 28: And nightly I painted, Vermillion, the town; / Or with flashes of crimson, I varied the hue, / While language Soph’moric, Would make the air blue.
at paint the town red, v.
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