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[Scot] Dunfermline Press 21 Apr. 4/5: There is not an unmarried man in Yarmouth. The girls there are not so particular [...] and consequently go off like hot cakes.
at like hot cakes under hot, adj.
[UK] Dunfermline Press 26 Jan. 2/5: Holy Willies—men of great faith and little charity—intense believers in themselves, with no faith in others.
at holy Willie (n.) under holy, adj.
[Scot] Dunfermline Press 30 May 1/6: Those half-famished looking imposters [...] who stand on the curbs of our public thoroughfares, and beg with a few sticks of sealing-wax [...] were known in Luther’s time as Goose-shearers.
at goose shearer (n.) under goose, n.4
[Scot] Dunfermline Press 20 June 3/6: The Leaky Admiral. Lord Hardwicke complains of [...] the indiscretion of Admiral Elliot in communicating to a leader of the Opposition [etc.].
at leaky, adj.
[Scot] Dunfermline Press 27 Aug. 4/1: A cracking, canty carl was he.
at canty, adj.1
[Scot] Dunfermline Press 3 Feb. 1/5: Dr Knight had been in the same class with Lord Byron [...] ‘He had the most damnable disposition’.
at damnable, adj.
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