cross-patch

Birmingham and Bolton are both after the scuttling cross-patch bald full-back Paul Konchesky.

Football transfer rumours: Kasper Schmeichel to Bayern Munich? 2010

Allusion here functions as a sort of shorthand cross-patch into a series of metaphoric events which, with

Fractures of Unfamiliarity Robert Hunter 1996

Paddy had had a tormenting day with his sister, at her beck and call in a way Fee never demanded, helping her pick her fastidious, cross-patch way through the Gilly mud in imported guipure lace shoes, smiling and chatting with the people she greeted royally, standing by her side as she presented the emerald bracelet to the winner of the principal race, the Gillanbone Trophy.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

"Yes, indeed," answered the little girl with a toss of her head, and speaking in a loud voice so that the maid might hear her; "Miss Kerr always does what I ask her to do, but Sophie is a regular cross-patch."

Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children Clara Mulholland

"_You'd_ better walk, too, cross-patch, and learn a few manners from your friends," was David's parting advice to his sister.

Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

I do not know just what had befallen if love had failed me, for as far back as I can remember love has been to me the bedrock of all that is worth living for, striving for or possessing in this cross-patch of a world of ours.

"Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

"Don't worry about the soft-job brigade, old cross-patch," advised

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

"Good-bye," and they went on feeling far more gently disposed toward their cross-patch neighbors than they ever had before.

Ethel Morton's Holidays 1903

The owl, which lured the crows and other birds of prey, was fastened on a perch, and when they flew up, often in large flocks, to tease the old cross-patch which sat blinking angrily, they were shot down from loop-holes which had been left in the hut.

The Story of My Life Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 1892

She was an old cross-patch, of course, they told him, or else she would not live alone on the edge of a forest, with nobody but a cat and owls for company.

Jewel's Story Book Clara Louise Burnham 1890