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A Patriotic Schoolgirl choose

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[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 126: I meant to give you a regular blow-out, so far as the rationing order would allow us.
at blow-out, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 28: ‘For goodness' sake don't begin to blub!’.
at blub, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 80: They had at first considered Marjorie inclined to ‘boss’, and had made her thoroughly understand that [...] such an attitude could not be tolerated.
at boss, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 279: ‘I’ll go away till you've got over your tantrums. It's what used to be called katawampus when I was small, and they generally spanked me for it’.
at catawampus, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 76: ‘Right oh, chucky!’.
at chucky, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 213: ‘Save a bun, And do the Hun!’.
at do, v.1
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 171: ‘She has always seemed to me very unsophisticated and childish—certainly not “fast”’.
at fast, adj.1
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 42: ‘Oh, it wasn't difficult! I just knocked it [i.e. a song] off, you know’.
at knock off, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 213: ‘It’ll mean knocking off buns, I suppose,’ sighed Sylvia.
at knock off, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 120: ‘I’ll call on Saturday afternoon at Brackenfield for you [...] The Mater will square your Head’.
at mater, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 81: ‘[I]t would be perfectly piggy to wear the same serge dress from breakfast to bedtime’.
at piggy, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 44: ‘Isn't she a scream?’ [...] ‘Rather! I call her topping’.
at scream, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 28: ‘Miss Jones is a stunt, as jinky as you like. Wish we had her at our house’.
at stunt, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Patriotic Schoolgirl 77: ‘You're an absolute trump, old girl!’.
at trump, n.2
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