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The World in the Evening choose

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[UK] C. Isherwood World in Evening 282: That night you told me you were pregnant, you said, ‘I suppose you think I did this on purpose?’ Well, I never thought that. [...] You’d never stoop to that kind of bitchery’ [Simes:DLSS].
at bitchery (n.) under bitch, n.1
[UK] C. Isherwood World in Evening 311: ‘[T]hey ought to be glad to have us [in the forces]. The girly ones make wonderful pharmacist’s mates, and the rest are just as good fighting men as anybody else’.
at girlie, adj.
[UK] C. Isherwood World in Evening 240: Two silly Belgian girls and Pierre, the show-off muscle-boy.
at muscle boy (n.) under muscle, n.
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