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[UK] Week 26 Feb. 17: Lee spotted her personal ad [...] and sent her some cheesy emails and a laughable beefcake photo.
at beefcake, n.
[UK] Week 26 Feb. 17: Lee spotted her personal ad [...] and sent her some cheesy emails and a laughable beefcake photo.
at cheesy, adj.2
[UK] Week 8 Jan. 25/2: In short, it’s a ‘corker’, said [...] Daily Mail.
at corker, n.2
[UK] Week 8 Jan. 25/1: The ‘flimsy’ plot is ‘sub-Pygmalion’ and the gags are corny.
at corny, adj.
[UK] Week 8 Jan. 25/1: Why be so po-faced, said Sam Marlowe.
at po-faced, adj.
[UK] Week 8 Jan. 25/2: A gobsmacking spectacle.
at gobsmacked, adj.
[UK] Week 8 Jan. 25/2: A combination of vaudevillian hoofing with slapstick.
at hoof, v.
[UK] Week 8 Jan. 18/2: the trouble was caused by a group of ‘tough-nut’ prisoners.
at tough-nut, adj.
[UK] Week 8 Jan. 25/2: Josefina Gabrielle as a delightfully minxy toff.
at toff, n.
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