Kipling

Cited as Kipling. — 26 quotations

Babul

In place of Putney's golden gorse The sickly babul blooms.

Bash

Bash her open with a rock.

Bundobust

He has more bundobust than most men.

Cannon

He heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it -- crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.

Chantey

May we lift a deep-sea chantey such as seamen use at sea?

Comether

How does ut come about, sorr, that whin a man has put the comether on wan woman he's sure bound to put ut on another?

Flick

Rude boys were flicking butter pats across chaos.

Frazzle

My fingers are all scratched to frazzles.

Gobstick

He . . . wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a “gobstick.”

Golf

Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.

Grill

He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains.

Holluschickie

But he'll lie down on the killing grounds where the holluschickie go.

Hunkers

Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge.

Jig

The fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.

Jolly

I'm a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an' sailor too!

Kill

“There is none like to me!” says the cub in the pride of his earliest kill.
If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.

Lace

The Gond . . . picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.

Mill

The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius.

Plop

The body plopped up, turning on its side.

Plouter

I did not want to plowter about any more.

Pucka

It's pukka famine, by the looks of it.

Puggry

A blue-gray felt hat with a gold puggaree.

Scutter

A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.

Shoulder

A yoke of the great sulky white bullocks . . . came shouldering along together.

Thermantidote

Will you bring me to book on the mountains, or where the thermantidotes play?