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Dew and Mildew: Semi-detached Stories from Karabad, India choose

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[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew and Mildew 136: You preferred to play being Grown-Ups, and Grown-Ups don’t act the giddy goat.
at act the (giddy) goat, v.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 70: I thought you said a wicked word. In fact, you reminded me of my grandpa. General Bucker. He used to talk just like that, you know. They called him 'poor adjective Backer,'.
at adjective, adj.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 257: ‘You can argify an’ they can argify, but the mos’ fust-class argyment is the bomb. There ain’t no back-answerin’ to that’.
at argufy, v.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 366: ‘O! my knd Aunt in tights!’.
at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 105: Cheese it, Carrots! Go and put your head in a bag [...] Stow your gab.
at put your head in a bag! (excl.) under bag, n.1
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 238: ‘[A]ny class or sect or section or gang or outfit or crew or society or community or lot or set or jing-bang [etc]’.
at jing-bang, n.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 238: ‘ [...] up and biff it with the maximum of violence and blood [...] up you get with a yell and you start to biff’.
at biff, v.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 35: It transpired that the boy most fluent in the humorous bosh [...] actually got money for it.
at bosh, n.1
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 164: [T]he obiter dicta of his hero brother, Bossy (who had a slight cast in one eye) .
at boss-eye, n.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 231: ‘And what about your orderly at the private meeting?’ [...] ‘Well, I’m coming to that if you didn’t buck so much’.
at buck, v.3
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 117: He was just having his chota hazri and we had a ‘buck’ over it.
at buck, n.4
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 76: ‘I bunked downstairs into the cabing’.
at bunk, v.1
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 289: ‘I have always suspected bunkum and trickery’.
at bunkum, n.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 231: Buggin was on his perch being buttered by as dangerous a gang of swine as you'd find in Asia.
at butter, v.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 407: ‘Lieutenant Harriss, mann, who is commanding this companee ? Iss itt you or me ? Lett them isstand easee while I tink.’ [...] Good God ! The man was ‘chee-chee!’ [...] a half-caste, a ‘chee-chee’ chatterer.
at chee-chee, adj.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 136: [You] said, ‘Well, here’s luck, Colonel,’ or ‘Chin-chin,’ and then the Vice [...] would reply, [...] ‘Cheer Oh’.
at chin-chin!, excl.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 136: The Colonel looked at his watch and said, ‘Sun’s below the yard-arm. Yeth, I’ll have a thmall Thcotch-and-usual, General.’ Then you called, ‘Boy! Do chota peg lao!
at chota peg (n.) under chota, adj.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 180: [H]is fat and panting old ayah — the deep desire of whose soul was to see the Chota Sahib asleep on his bed that she might get away to her tiffin.
at chota sahib (n.) under chota, adj.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 9: [T]he little rooms over the bazaar shops will be tenanted solely by chota-sahibs and junior English gazetted officials.
at chota sahib (n.) under chota, adj.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 76: ‘I [...] offered it my packet of Turkidge Daylight that Ayah would not let me eat for chota hazri’.
at chota hazri under chota, adj.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 245: ‘’Ere, chuck it, old ’un!’.
at chuck it, v.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 351: ‘Wan’ a clip ’n the yeerole?’.
at clip, n.2
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 408: ‘We shall all be corpsed if he lives’.
at corpse, v.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 38: Master Dagga crammed on [...] [a]nd daily his appalling stock of incredibly useless knowledge grew.
at cram, v.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 270: ‘That’s all tosh and posh [...] You could easily do a land-crab if it came for you’.
at do, v.1
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 350: [He] addressed t [...] Sturling as ‘Donah,’ as his Sorcy Little Kipper, and eke as ‘ Kite’.
at dona, n.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 282: Having made certain arrangements, including a treaty with a gentleman who in England would be termed a ‘fence’ [etc].
at fence, n.1
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 236: ‘Suppose he brings a gang with him. They’d spot us right off, and put him up to it that he was being pulled. Lord, we musn't foozle it’.
at foozle, v.
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 408: ‘Our brave Capting has got the funks’.
at funk, n.2
[Ind] P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 136: [You] said, ‘Well, here’s luck, Colonel,’ or ‘Chin-chin,’ and then the Vice [...] would reply, [...] ‘Cheer Oh’.
at here goes!, excl.
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