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Living Age 1 July 209/1: ‘I have every faith in you.’ ‘Sir, the confidence is flattering; and I think between us, we may cheat the worms’.at cheat the worms (v.) under cheat, v.
Living Age 1 July 209/1: ‘I have every faith in you.’ ‘Sir, the confidence is flattering; and I think between us, we may cheat the worms’. Living Age 25 Sept. 619/2: Perhaps I did feel a little weak in the jints when I seed the officers unbuttonin their shirt collars, and the men throwin away their canteens and haversacks, as they was marchin rite strait up to them ar works, whar the greasers was waitin for us, every devil with his gun pinted and his finger on the trigger.at greaser, n.1
Living Age 24 Apr. 167/2: I ’m jiggered if he did n’t out with a brace of old brass-mounted ship’s pistols, and fire them.at jiggered, adj.1
Living Age 2 Sept. 609/1: Chalk Sunday [...] on the first Sunday in Lent it is usual for the girls slyly to chalk the coats of those young men who have allowed the preceding festival to pass without having made their choice of a partner.at Chalk Sunday (n.) under chalk, n.1
Living Age 168 446/2: l’se nae time to argybargy wi’ ye, Davit.at argy-bargy, v.
Living Age 212 38/2: He overheard the words coupled with his name, and anxious to know who had paid him this left-handed compliment walked up to the marquis.at left-handed compliment (n.) under left-handed, adj.
Living Age CCXL 809/1: ‘Gawdstruth,’ he moaned, ‘I be wholly killed.’.at gawdstruth!, excl.
Living Age July 117: ‘To fire,’ is [...] more vivid than ‘to sack,’ or ‘to boot’ [W&F].at boot, v.1
Living Age 29 May 554: Molloy’s, a notable house of refreshment, within an ass’s gallop of the town of Crossgar.at ass’s gallop (n.) under ass, n.
Living Age Aug. 374: He will [...] ‘get hot warm round the collar,’ and may even ‘hit the ceiling’ [W&F].at hit the ceiling, v.
Living Age 283 152: Her mouth looks as if it was full of plums and wouldn't shut; and her eyes go up like a dyin’ duck’s; and her hair is niggerish, and so is her skin; and she's fat and sloppy.at niggerish (adj.) under nigger, n.1
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