chirplingn.
Little chirper; young bird, ‘chick’.
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1888 Chicago Advance 26 Apr. 257 For the joy that our chirplings will give us!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1888- you know what you can do
- you know what you can do with it
- you know what?
- you know where you can put it
- you know where you can shove it
- you know where you can stick it
- you little beauty
- you lost me
- you lot
- you make a better door than a window
- you mark my word
- you mark my words
- you may do something long enough
- you may know a fool by his laughing
- you may know how the market goes by the market folks
- you may long enough
- you may search me
- you may suppose
- you might have knocked me down with a feather
- you might have knocked me etc down with a feather
- you must have killed a chinaman
- you must know
- you must understand
- you name it
- you never know