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[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 10 Oct. 4/5: It was thought proper that a pair of steel ruffles (handcuffs) should unite the impatient groom to one of the overseers.
at ruffles, n.1
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 13 July 3/2: The other [...] ‘charley’, the Bang-beggar [...] was wounded in the thigh.
at bang-beggar (n.) under bang, v.1
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 10 Sept. 3/4: Our brother of the quill should recollect [that] we are entitled to the marked respect of his majesty’s ministers.
at brother of the quill (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 9 Aug. 4/5: My gleanings there amounted to the mighty aggregate of twelvepence halfpenny, including two Brummagem buttons.
at Brummagem button (n.) under Brummagem, adj.
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 29 May 2/2: The Hon. and learned member for Meath’s simile [...] might go down very well at Mullingar, where men and women were said to be ‘beef to the feels’.
at beef to the heel(s) (adj.) under beef, n.1
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 7 Mar. 3/3: Lord Concurry secured [...] for his brother-in-law [...] a living worth a plum.
at worth a plum (adj.) under plum, n.2
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 24 Nov. 3/3: God damn it [...] that tour [...] was chiefly the cause of this cursed event.
at god-damn it!, excl.
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 28 Jan. 3/5: An ill-favoured yahoo [...] thrust his raw physiognomy through the rusty bars of an old-fashioned gate, manufactured in the reign of Queen Dick.
at in the days of Queen Dick (adv.) under Queen Dick, n.
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 24 May 2/3: A little document signed by not quite a bakers’ dozen [clergymen].
at baker’s dozen, n.1
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 9 Feb. 3/7: Mr. P. Maguire backing his horse, The Nigger, to trot six Irish miles in thirty minutes.
at nigger, n.1
[Ire] Dublin Eve. Packet 4 Sept. 1/2: Hot Luncheon of Roast or Boiled, 9d.
at boiled, n.
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