1939 D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 189: ‘He took out a plated cigarette case. ‘Present,’ he said. ‘I bet my uncle with three balls has it in a week. Have a best Turkish’.at three balls, n.
1939 D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog July 191: He put the receiver down. ‘That boy ‘s a buddy dreamer,’ he said to no one. He never swore.at buddy, adj.1
1939 D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 204: ‘This is a funny pub,’ I said. ‘See the notices?’ ‘Okay now?’ ‘I ‘m feeling upsydaisy’.at bugger you! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
1939 D. Thomas ‘One Warm Saturday’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 211: The child [...] shook a row of buttons down its belly and a line of drops, like piddle in a child’s drawing, between the long legs stuck with shells.at piddle, n.
1939 D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 201: ‘[H]er second daughter’s died in pod.’ ‘Baby girl dead, too,’ said the man at his side.at in pod (adj.) under pod, n.1
1939 D. Thomas ‘Old Garbo’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 197: ‘Got to go to the w. for a breath of fresh air’.at W, n.2
1940 D. Thomas ‘Who Do You Wish Was with Us?’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 162: [W]e heard women on an outing call ‘Mutt and Jeff!’ for Ray was tall and thin and I was short.at mutt and jeff, n.
1940 D. Thomas ‘Where the Tawe Flows’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 129: Mr Roberts [...] was a collector for an insurance company; they called him in the trade a body-snatcher, and he was known among his friends as Burke and Hare.at body-snatcher, n.
1940 D. Thomas ‘Where the Tawe Flows’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 134: Mr Roberts put his hands over his ears. ‘The conversation is getting esoteric,’ he said. ‘Excuse my French!’.at excuse my French under French, n.
1940 D. Thomas ‘Who Do You Wish Was with Us?’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 162: [W]e [...] bullied our way through a crowd of day-trippers who waited at the stop of the Gower-bound buses [...] ‘Why can’t those bus lizards walk,’ Ray said. ‘They were born too tired,’ I said.at -lizard, sfx
1940 D. Thomas ‘Where the Tawe Flows’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 134: ‘More parsnip?’ ‘It goes down the throat like silk, Mr Evans.’ ‘Like baby’s milk.’ ‘Say when, Mr Roberts’.at say when under say, v.
1940 D. Thomas ‘Extraordinary Little Cough’ in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 100: [O]ld men with backache and young girls in trouble waited for consultations in the half-dark.at in trouble (adv.) under trouble, n.