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The Madcap of the School choose

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[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 167: ‘Look here, Raymonde, you’re a young blighter yourself sometimes, but you don’t go in for this kind of rubbish’.
at blighter, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 85: ‘I’ve spent all my allowance [...] It’s hard luck to be stony-broke’.
at stone broke, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 65: ‘Bunkum!’ replied Ardiune.
at bunkum, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 28: ‘She can swallow any amount of butter [...] She evidently likes it laid on thick’.
at butter, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 11: ‘Oh, hold me up! This child’s knocked me over entirely!’.
at child, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 245: ‘ We’re not to be nigger minstrels exactly. Coons are different. Of course, the songs are all about Sambos and Dinahs, but white people can sing them with quite as great effect’.
at coon, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 161: ‘I picks pockets, and then I gets copped and sent to quod, and picks oakum!’.
at cop, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 251: [T]hey had decided during the performance of ‘The Darkies’ Frolic’ to dance a lively kind of combined fox-trot and cake-walk measure to illustrate the words.
at darkie, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 251: They [...] were capering in most approved darky fashion.
at darkie, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 205: ‘She’s nuts on this afternoon-tea dodge! (I don’t care—I shan’t put a penny in the slang box)’.
at dodge, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 196: ‘She may be a blighter in some things, but she doesn’t funk!’.
at funk, v.2
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 48: ‘Oh, good night! The wretched things are hatching out!’ gasped Raymonde.
at goodnight, phr.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 285: ‘I’m an American. We crossed the herring-pond just before the war started, and we’ve been stuck in this old country ever since’.
at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 11: ‘Oh, I say!’ ‘This is top-hole!’ ‘What a chubby place!’.
at top-hole, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 132: ‘I thought Gibbie’d treat me to jaw-wag if I left out my pyjamas’.
at jaw, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 206: ‘Oh, Jemima!’ ‘Please to remember that this is a finishing school! [...] Don’t on any account shock the neighbourhood by an unseemly exhibition of vulgar slang!’.
at jemima!, excl.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 12: ‘The Wasp’s quite jinky to-day. Actually said “my dear” to me when I arrived’.
at jinky, adj.1
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 51: ‘We’d a jinky time, though, first. It was worth being caught afterwards’.
at jinky, adj.1
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 205: ‘Rather a jink!’ ventured Ardiune. ‘It’ll be queer to see rows of strangers sitting in the lecture room!’.
at jinky, adj.1
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 176: Raymonde bowed [...] ‘Don’t mensh! Glad to do my bit!’.
at mensh, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 205: ‘She’s nuts on this afternoon-tea dodge! (I don’t care—I shan’t put a penny in the slang box)’.
at nuts on, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 86: ‘Tell your fortunes, my pretty ladies?’ pattered one of the Romanys.
at patter, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 161: ‘I picks pockets, and then I gets copped and sent to quod, and picks oakum!’.
at quod, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 11: ‘You needn’t look so incredulous. I’m not ragging’.
at rag, v.1
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 74: ‘You know your part of the business?’ ‘Ra-ther!’.
at rather!, excl.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 76: ‘Right-o, old sport!’ returned Morvyth.
at righto!, excl.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 13: [I]t was an open secret that she had a sneaking weakness for Raymonde. ‘The Bumble Bee rows Ray, but she likes her,’ was the general verdict.
at row, v.1
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 10: Scooterons-nous this very sec! Quick! Hurry!
at scoot, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 10: Scooterons-nous this very sec! Quick! Hurry!
at sec, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Madcap of the School 257: ‘Splendiferous! I’ll do it!’ she said aloud;.
at splendiferous, adj.
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