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[Scot] Fife Free Press 6 May 3/7: ‘Whoever wrote the letters [...] appears to be a slubberdegullion’.
at slabberdegullion, n.
[Scot] Fife Free Press 24 Feb. 4/5: He comes here week after week and fechts awa nimbly enough wi’ the pencil, the deil a bit better are we, seeing oor argie-bargiens are no reproduced in prent.
at argy-bargy, n.
[Scot] Fife Free Press 19 Oct. 2/7: One of those who gave chase came down with a vengeance upon his ‘snotter-box’.
at snotbox (n.) under snot, n.1
[UK] Fife Free Press 10 Jan. 3/4: ‘You blow about edication!Why, I don’t believe as how you ever had two penn’orth of schoolin’ in your life’’.
at blow, v.1
[UK] Fife Free Press 18 Apr. 3/1: Collectively, they’re bricks. But if there’s one thing that either their good nature or their brickness won’t stand its patronage.
at brickish (adj.) under brick, n.
[Scot] Fife Free Press 19 June 3/2: It takes a Satan of a lot to disturb the equilibrium of yours truly.
at Satan, n.
[Scot] Fife Free Press 27 Jan. 12/4: [cartoon caption] The Pilgrim and The Palaverer.
at palaverer (n.) under palaver, v.
[Scot] Fife Free Press 19 May 9/6: Jimmy Bain was known to all and sundry as ‘Pump Thunder’.
at pump-thunder, n.
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