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[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 392: ‘Assimilation is one of our mottos’ [...] ‘Yeh yeh and the pope shits in the woods. Wasn’t so long ago you was BNP’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 285: he used to jug-a-jug-jug with so many different creatures... [...] oh he was such an irrepressible animal lover..
at jug-a-jug-jug, v.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 602: The body was found the next day [...] ‘Well well... so he threw a seven at last... he had it coming to him,’ was Freddie’s response.
at chuck a seven, v.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 105: [T]he omnipresent dank and her boys’ awol causes her to tut.
at A.W.O.L., n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 619: ‘[B]’leave me I’m not comin’ the old ackamarackus’.
at ackamarackus, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 781: She glugged a couple of gallons of water... not strictly Adam’s ale down to the amount of chlorine.
at Adam’s ale (n.) under Adam, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 105: ‘Oh botherage!’ she cries.
at -age, sfx
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 128: [H]is twittish scoutmaster tendency. All that airy-fairy, arty-farty, singing-whilst-we-whittle-round-the campfire.
at airy-fairy, adj.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 751: As Dad used to say: [he was] stark b*ll*ck naked, all but. He was in his birthday suit! The altogether!
at altogether, the, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 116: When my old chum Henry comes on the dog he goes to me can I help him look for his parents?
at dog (and bone), n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 392: ‘[C]ontinually delighted by your duckin’, divin’, always survivin’’.
at ducking and diving, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 461: ‘Bumper gee and tee ice and slice twice’.
at g. and t., n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 462: ‘Rui Päschlat - the guy you were rabbiting with’.
at rabbit (and pork), v.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 170: Horrocks asserts that Jervoise and Mein Opa could both ride to their places of learning in little more than hour and a half. I should cocoa!
at I should cocoa under coffee and cocoa, v.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 176: [U]gly so-and-sos no proud fellow would want to roughly roger.
at so-and-so, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 171: He was a dandy quack, un faiseur des anges sanctioned by Mary having aborted the Son Of God.
at angel-maker (n.) under angel, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 494: Security animals were frankly amateur-night. Average weight 19 stone, average collar 20 inches: too much bulk not enough stealth.
at animal, n.1
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 186: Poor fellow appears to have been stupidly mean [...] Not quite sixteen annas to the rupee.
at not sixteen annas to the rupee (adj.) under anna, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 302: I’d promised to promote Glen to guitar valet once we’d archered Marty.
at archer, v.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 116: Vee-pee-ell - that’s my only message for the fat-arsed mouthy one from The Human Flotsam Hub.
at fat-arse, adj.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 147: Welsh, with its distressing connotation of furtive, racially impoverished, short-arsed Celts.
at short-arsed, adj.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 311: ‘[R]emember where you came from - if you don’t you may find yourself back there.’ Arsehole.
at arsehole, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 843: The semi-trailer of an artic had been converted into an ad-hoc brothel.
at artic, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 852: Or only in artsy fartsy places like Ducis.
at artsy-fartsy, adj.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 128: [H]is twittish scoutmaster tendency. All that airy-fairy, arty-farty, singing-whilst-we-whittle-round-the campfire.
at arty-farty, adj.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 247: He was going to track down the tommies who had carried out this most graceless of burials.
at Tommy Atkins, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 103: The autumnal atmos is dense with fungal particulates.
at atmos, n.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 590: She didn’t go into lag-wife mourning while her husband was away. Far from it.
at away, adj.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 279: ...god didn’t save the king even though he’s daily implored to... that b awful anthem has no magic..
at b, adj.
[UK] J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 819: [W]e had been a team now it was just Part-Time Tabitha and me... me and my BFF.
at B.F.F., n.
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