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A Fourth Form Friendship choose

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[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 12: ‘Now, isn’t this A1? Put it inside your case. There! Off you go!’.
at A-1, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 71: As for Lorna, she's been banting in preparation; she hardly took any dinner’.
at bant, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 13: ‘You needn’t look so blue’.
at blue, adj.1
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 29: ‘You’ll be with Fifth Form girls, and you can’t expect them to be particularly chummy with you’.
at chummy, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 12: ‘She’s out, so I couldn't ask her.’ ‘Taking French leave?’.
at French leave, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 13: ‘School isn’t all games, I can tell you [...] There’s a jolly lot of grind to be gone through’.
at grind, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 179: ‘[S]he’ll be going about the school looking such a guy! She’ll wonder why everybody is smiling’.
at guy, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 13: ‘I’m sure I do heaps of things for you; I was playing cricket with you all morning’.
at heap, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 13: ‘I won’t say a single word [...] I’ll be absolutely dumb and mum!’.
at mum, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 84: ‘I believe the niggers are still here!’ exclaimed Myfanwy [...] ‘Oh! I caught a glimpse then of a tall white hat and a red-striped jacket’.
at nigger, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 227: ‘What an abominable swindle! It’ll take half our next term's cash. I don’t believe the pater will stand it for us’.
at pater, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 219: ‘I say! Wouldn’t it be jolly if we [...] row ourselves up the river to Holt’s farm?’ [...] ‘Ripping!’ said Godfrey.
at ripping, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 73: ‘How disgustingly greedy you are! [...] You don't deserve anything, except plain bread and scrape’.
at scrape, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 72: ‘Has it been fun spending the day here?’ ‘Simply scrumptious!’.
at scrumptious, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 30: ‘We’e full up, all six beds; there isn’t even a corner for a shakedown’.
at shakedown, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 11: ‘Don’t you remember, he made a picture of it last year?’ ‘So he did, and a jolly good one too. Yours won’t be anything like up to that, Sis!’.
at sis, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 17: ‘I’ve often heard you say yourself that if one is to get on at school one must do well at games.’ ‘No one tolerates slackers, certainly I’ll allow that’.
at slacker, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 22: ‘Well, of all the sneaks you’re the biggest! Call that your work? Why, it’s Mr. Bowden’s!—all the best parts, at any rate’.
at sneak, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 85: ‘We’ll manage to square them somehow,’ said Phœbe. ‘I don’t think they’ll tell Miss Drummond’.
at square, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 227: ‘What an abominable swindle! It’ll take half our next term's cash. I don’t believe the pater will stand it for us’.
at stand, v.2
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 111: ‘Be a little straighter in future, if you want to keep chums with me’.
at straight, adj.1
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 118: ‘I know what it is to swat hard,’ wrote Keith.
at swot, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 10: ‘The table looks like an art repository! [...] Where are you going with all those traps?’.
at traps, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 221: [of a dinghy] ‘She’s a dreadfully heavy old tub [...] but she’s seaworthy’.
at tub, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Fourth Form Friendship 23: ‘Do turn off the water-works, there’s a good girl’.
at waterworks, n.
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