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[UK] Ballymena Obs. 19 Aug. 3/2: There was too much of a stepmother’s breath about the atmosphere.
at stepmother’s breath, n.
[Ire] Ballymena Obs. 20 Jan. 7/6: Discusion then ensued [...] as to the quantity of tea required for a good ‘cup o’ scald’.
at scald, n.
[UK] Ballymena Obs. 23 Jan. 6/5: He asked how Srah Montgomery was getting on and what was the reason she did not come home, and Rea said that ‘she was as drunk as buggery and had fell and cut her brow’.
at as buggery (adv.) under buggery, n.
[UK] Ballymena Obs. 20 Dec. 11/7: ‘Bad,’ says he, ‘sevendible bad, never was worse’.
at sevendible, adj.
[UK] Ballymena Obs. 24 Feb. 10/4: ‘Did you not hear a wild dunnerin’, sir? [...] It was a sevendible clatter altogether’.
at sevendible, adj.
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