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[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 91: I must restrict myself to devil and soda and B.
at soda and B, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 40: You’ll soon make ducks and drakes of your money, and will go to the bad like a house a-fire.
at ducks and drakes, n.1
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 67: The baker’s boy had [...] bagged some wine from a bottle.
at bag, v.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 23: I don’t wonder, Giglamps, that you look in a blue funk!
at blue funk (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 91: I promised to [...] see him and Verdant Green off by the Brummagem coach.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 105: You’d like to smoke a pipe, old buck, I daresay [...] Old buck, would you like to pick a bit of pheasant?
at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 17: Although he’s Honourable by name, he’s not by nature. He’s as genuine a cad as was ever pupped.
at cad, n.1
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 124: By his togs he looks like a parson; white choker, black coat and sit-upons.
at choker, n.1
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 88: If you don’t get up at once, I shall give you cold pig.
at cold pig (n.) under cold, adj.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 66: ‘What did you mean [...] by saying that you gave the wet men callidum-cum and had frigidum sine yourselves?’ ‘It’s the short for hot-with and cold-without.’.
at cold without (n.) under cold, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 13: What! cut Chapel and posted an Æger, for the second time in one week [...] you’re coming it strong.
at come it strong (v.) under come it, v.1
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 13: What! cut Chapel and posted an Æger, for the second time in one week [...] you’re coming it strong.
at cut, v.4
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 40: I vote we do some bitters. My throat’s rather dry.
at do, v.1
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 16: ‘I’ve been persuaded to make a book.’ ‘What! to come the literary dodge and do the complete author?’.
at dodge, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 142: If you want me to fork out for anything you’ve got against me, I daresay Stump and Rowley can find the cash.
at fork out, v.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 22: What! You gave Blucher Boots the three five-pound notes? My gun, Giglamps!
at by gum! (excl.) under gum, n.2
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 66: ‘What did you mean [...] by saying that you gave the wet men callidum-cum and had frigidum sine yourselves?’ ‘It’s the short for hot-with and cold-without’.
at hot with (n.) under hot, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 141: He was being arrested for unpaid debts, and was being clandestinely conveyed to a sponging-house.
at sponging-house, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 178: Why, you’re setting up for quite a wit, Joe! we must call you Joe Miller if this sort of thing goes on.
at Joe Miller, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 17: If some feller would give him a good licking [...] it would be a public benefit.
at licking, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 189: [heading] Little Mr. Bouncer Departs from Mossoo’s in Company with Alphonse [Ibid.] 192: He signified to Mossoo that he approved of his work.
at mossoo, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 27: Mr. Bouncer [...] hinted at the probability of his ‘running a fearful mucker’.
at mucker, n.1
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 14: You look as if you had been at a tea-fight or muffin-worry and had taken more hot toast than was good for your digestion.
at muffin-worry, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 26: I’ll do my possibles, as the Parley-voos say.
at parleyvoo, n.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 19: You pretend to be Æger, or sick and peaky, when you’re in robust health.
at peaky, adj.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 13: Hullo, Giglamps [...] You look peakyish. What’s the row?
at peakyish (adj.) under peaky, adj.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 54: And while the Peeler was hesitating what to do, they made a clear bolt.
at peeler, n.2
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 12: He’s not had no sober-water this morning, and I’m not aware as he were pleasant last night.
at pleasant, adj.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 56: Poor Ellison has been plucked again [...] Broughton the gentleman-commoner of Worcester College, has been ploughed for his Greats.
at plough, v.
[UK] ‘Cuthbert Bede’ Little Mr. Bouncer 56: Poor Ellison has been plucked again [...] Broughton the gentleman-commoner of Worcester College, has been ploughed for his Greats.
at pluck, v.
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