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[UK] Wodehouse ‘How Pillingshot Scored’ in Captain May 🌐 You young slacker, why aren’t you changed? Been bunking half-holiday games?
at bunk (off) (v.) under bunk, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse ‘How Pillingshot Scored’ in Captain May 🌐 The young crock’s gone and got mumps, or the plague, or something.
at crock, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse ‘How Pillingshot Scored’ in Captain May 🌐 There are some muffins in the cupboard. You might weigh in with them.
at weigh in, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘How Pillingshot Scored’ in Captain May 🌐 Scarcely was he outside the promised ice when another misfortune came upon him.
at outside, adv.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘How Pillingshot Scored’ in Captain May 🌐 The man Yorke is going to bowl me some of his celebrated slow tosh.
at tosh, n.3
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Kid Brady — How He Made His Debut’ in Captain Sept. 🌐 There’s bin framing-propositions made to him. He’s bin paid to lose.
at frame, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Kid Brady — How He Made His Debut’ in Captain Sept. 🌐 You may stand on me. On the wor-rud of a mimber of the city police.
at stand on, v.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Kid Brady — How He Made His Debut’ in Captain Sept. 🌐 Here, kid, help me out of these bally pudding-cases, and I’ll give you a dollar.
at pudding-case (n.) under pudding, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Pillingshot Detective’ in Captain Dec. 🌐 It’s been a beastly sweat.
at sweat, n.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Pillingshot’s Paper’ in Captain Feb. 🌐 Scott might have his faults, yes, but this chumminess was certainly complimentary.
at chumminess (n.) under chummy, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse ‘Pillingshot’s Paper’ in Captain Feb. 🌐 Do you realise what it means to found a paper—the expense, the months of brain-fag, the worry?
at fag, n.2
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