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[UK] S. Bythell Confessions of a Bookseller 323: The Master and Margarita [is] an extraordinary book, the cleverest [...] use of the supernatural of any book I’ve read, although Hogg’s Justified Sinner might pip it at the post.
at pip, v.1
[UK] S. Bythell Confessions of a Bookseller 296: Nicky was in with a bag of squashed welshcakes. She spent the first ten minutes of the working day scoffing them.
at scoff, v.
[UK] S. Bythell Confessions of a Bookseller 199: ‘A funny wee man came in when you were away swanning about in the Highlands’.
at swan about (v.) under swan, v.
[UK] S. Bythell Confessions of a Bookseller 253: [M]y mother is obsessed with the most horrendous tat [...] anything that makes my sisters and me squirm she seems to adore.
at tat, n.1
[UK] S. Bythell Confessions of a Bookseller 148: If Nicky had been here they would have waffled on together for hours.
at waffle, v.1
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