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[UK] Cornish Teleg. 27 July n.p.: ‘Oh father, oh father! that rum cove d’ye twig? [...] he knows I’m a Prig!
at rum cove (n.) under rum, adj.
[UK] Cornish Teleg. 8 Mar. 3/6: An evening party is facetiously a ‘bun-fight’.
at bunfight (n.) under bun, n.3
[UK] Cornish Teleg. 1 Nov. 4/7: American News [...] A guest at a western hotel, finding a long hair in the butter, ordered the waiter to bring him some ‘bald-headed butter’.
at bald-headed butter (n.) under bald-headed, adj.
[UK] Cornish Teleg. 25 June 7/6: ‘Come back home, for your mother is ramping mad’.
at ramping, adv.
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