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[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 7 Apr. 3/2: My servant, John McNamie [...] bald-headed, occasionally wears a scratch wig.
at scratch, n.2
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 26 Mar. 4/5: The men pegged away in fine style, toe to toe, and the match was won by Moyle, beating his antagonist, Eastwick.
at peg away (v.) under peg, v.2
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 15 May 4/4: Sir Rumpot ran through his fortune and retired to India.
at rumpot, n.
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 18 June 2/5: The fees [...] amount, it appears, to about 1,500l, which his Lordship must pay, and consequently, as the vulgar say, ‘he is as mad as a hatter’.
at ...a hatter under mad as..., adj.
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 26 Mar. 1/3: ‘Jim the snatcher is not be scared by rotten flesh!’.
at snatcher, n.
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 14 July 4/3: The notorious buckle-beggar, the late Father Megarry.
at buckle-beggar (n.) under buckle, v.
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 15 Dec. 4/2: Old Kentuck — I like to commence the evening in a lively manner. Major, let me have a leetle sling, but make it strong as thunder.
at Kentuck, n.
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 30 June 4/3: It was during this state of things that in point of doctrine and discipline the Synod of Ulster had gone to pigs and whistles.
at go to pigs and whistles (v.) under pig, n.
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 15 Dec. 4/2: Irishman — Be the powers, but that old Virginy, with his cock eye, must be a quare man never to tire.
at quare, adj.
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 15 Dec. 4/2: Old Kentuck — I like to commence the evening in a lively manner. Major, let me have a leetle sling, but make it strong as thunder.
at sling, n.1
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 6 May 4/1: Mr Augustus sent immediately to the bungalow for his rifle [...] it was a piece of the kind called in India a ‘bone-breaker’ [...] Having loaded it, he took deliberate aim at the alligator.
at bonecrusher, n.
[UK] Belfast Commercial Chron. 12 Apr. 3/2: Dominque, (a deserter, possessed of a soft head).
at softhead (n.) under soft, adj.
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