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[Scot] Peterhead Sentinel 6 Feb. 1/2: Genuine Sale all the year round [...] no clap-trap whatever; all fair and above board; but we cannot stand priggin’ — na hae seen.
at above board, adj.
[Scot] Peterhead Sentinel 6 Feb. 1/2: Genuine Sale all the year round [...] no clap-trap whatever; all fair and above board; but we cannot stand priggin’ — na hae seen.
at clap-trap, n.1
[Scot] Peterhead Sentinel 6 May 3/3: The footman surveyed Miss Wickerwill again [...] ‘A rum touch,’ said the footman below his breath [...] ‘a very rum touch’.
at rum touch (n.) under rum, adj.
[Scot] Peterhead Sentinel 18 Mar. 5/3: To fall out with Mr Spence’s paper [...] one would need to be chock-full of the ‘argle-bargling spirit’.
at argle-bargle, v.
[Scot] Peterhead Sentinel 30 Nov. 7/1: I have an order to deliver to an auld sneck drawer sae particular that she wad think naething o’ throwing it back [...] give I was na punctual tae the minute.
at sneck drawer, n.
[Scot] Peterhead Sentinel 30 Nov. 7/1: I found my self [...] tumbling and stotting [...] and anon slipping and plunkin’ doon on my hurdies.
at plunk down (v.) under plunk, v.
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