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[UK] T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 19 May (1953) 39: The thin-skinned speaker sits in agony through the clod-hopping, brick-dropping introduction.
at clodhopping, adj.
[UK] T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 3 May (1953) 32: A venerable figure [with] a dew-drop poised on the end of his rosy nose.
at dewdrop, n.1
[UK] T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 24 Apr. (1953) 19: Don’t trust anybody, but don’t get trigger-happy.
at trigger happy, adj.
[UK] T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 24 Apr. (1953) 18: O’Brien from Harrow [...] whose ‘oppo’ Ralph Haine [...] is, at twenty, eighteen months older.
at oppo, n.
[UK] T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 19 Sept. (1953) 78: There is little of that absurd class snobbery [...] except for the bigger farmers, who are of course our aristocracy and one or two stuffies who fancy themselves as gentry.
at stuffy, adj.1
[UK] T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 14 Oct. (1953) 80: You’re all right, boy you’re all right —you’ll walk it.
at walk it (v.) under walk, v.
[UK] T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 11 July (1953) 206: There’s a blowhard, a bully, a goof-off artist [...] an alibi artist, and a one-stripe general .
at -artist, sfx
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