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Encounter X 68: [W.H. Auden] notes that he has always found the atmosphere of [Twelfth Night] ‘a bit whiffy.’ He finds the use to which Shakespeare puts ‘O Mistress Mine’ rather shocking.at whiffy, adj.
Encounter X 68: [W.H. Auden] notes that he has always found the atmosphere of [Twelfth Night] ‘a bit whiffy.’ He finds the use to which Shakespeare puts ‘O Mistress Mine’ rather shocking. ‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 68: Drummer takes a butchers, and sees it ain’t alive / Then we whip it down the apples and cart it down the drive.at alive, adj.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 68: Drummer takes a butchers, and sees it ain’t alive / Then we whip it down the apples and cart it down the drive.at apples (and pears), n.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 68: It was when the motor gave a cough, I felt a lurching at my heart. / ‘We’re fucked,’ says Bill, ‘the bastard thing don’t want to start.’.at bastard, adj.
‘The Pickpocket’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 66: The fourpenny snore and the sweeny / Dwell in the box for you. / So nitto, nark it, stoppo, / Or a carpet’s a lay-down for you.at dwell in the box, v.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 68: Kate gets out and clocks the drum, comes back and says it’s dead.at clock, v.1
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 68: Me and Bill shoots round the back, we does the break a treat, / We get in without a sound, because we got creepers on our feet.at creepers, n.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: We went round to my gaff, to get my turtle doves, / My stick, tools and glimmer, which every screwsman loves.at turtle (dove), n.2
‘The Pickpocket’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 66: The fourpenny snore and the sweeny / Dwell in the box for you. / So nitto, nark it, stoppo, / Or a carpet’s a lay-down for you.at lay-down, n.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: I was sitting in the boozer with my china, Drummer Bill, / And as it was his nature, he had his minces on the till.at drummer, n.6
‘The Pickpocket’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 66: The fourpenny snore and the sweeny / Dwell in the box for you. / So nitto, nark it, stoppo, / Or a carpet’s a lay-down for you.at fourpenny, n.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 68: It was when the motor gave a cough, I felt a lurching at my heart. / ‘We’re fucked,’ says Bill, ‘the bastard thing don’t want to start.’.at fucked, adj.1
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: We went round to my gaff, to get my turtle doves, / My stick, tools and glimmer, which every screwsman loves.at glimmer, n.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: We cruised along at a steady ninety, this drag a lovely job, / With Drummer Bill behind the wheel, we’d outstrip the heavy mob.at heavy mob, n.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 68: Now Kate is well in it, and they’re sure to file a charge, / And what with the darbies on, she’s like a lunatic at large.at in it, adj.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: We call around for Kate the Clock, that’s Drummer’s little Judy, / In case of a stoppo, she can bung them all the moody.at judy, n.1
Encounter July 83/1: No prostitutes, no queers, no kinkies.at kinky, n.3
‘The Pickpocket’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 66: Nitto, nark it, stoppo, / That’s wot the whizz mob are saying, / Take yer fork from his outer, he’s piping, / If yer banged then yer in fer a striping.at nitto!, excl.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: We went round to a lockup, to nick ourselves a drag, / We took the paddy off the door, the rest was in the bag.at paddy, n.1
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: Now without these we’d be unemployed, and couldn’t go to graft, / No matter how much we screwed our nuts, in other words our craft.at screw one’s nut (v.) under screw, v.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 69: And when we’re all below, in that there place called Hell, / You can bet you bottom dollar, we’ll screw Satan’s drum as well!at screw, v.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: We went round to my gaff, to get my turtle doves, / My stick, tools and glimmer, which every screwsman loves.at screwsman (n.) under screw, n.1
Encounter May 30 n.p.: ‘The scrubbers’: very young girls who follow jazz bands round the country.at scrubber, n.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 68: Me and Bill shoots round the back, we does the break a treat, / We get in without a sound, because we got creepers on our feet.at shoot, v.
‘The Pickpocket’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 66: The fourpenny snore and the sweeny / Dwell in the box for you. / So nitto, nark it, stoppo, / Or a carpet’s a lay-down for you.at snore, n.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: We went round to my gaff, to get my turtle doves, / My stick, tools and glimmer, which every screwsman loves.at stick, n.
‘The Pickpocket’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 66: Nitto, nark it, stoppo, / That’s wot the whizz mob are saying, / Take yer fork from his outer, he’s piping, / If yer banged then yer in fer a striping.at stoppo!, excl.
‘Screwsman’s Lament’ in Encounter n.d. in Norman’s London (1969) 67: Now things was very dodgy, like the tank being very low, / So we drank down our pigsear, and crept out to have a go.at tank, n.2
Encounter May 14: The ‘white-collar workers’ have out-numbered the ‘blue-collar workers’; there are now more paper-pushers than tool-pushers.at paper pusher (n.) under paper, n.
Encounter 29 106/2: These natural-born heirs to the Beat Generation[...] accept four guiding principles: (1) Do your own thing, regardless of what anyone else thinks or says or does.at do one’s (own) thing (v.) under thing, n.
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