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Donkey’s Years choose

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[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 28: Only ‘consequential little articles’ put on airs.
at article, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 96: Begob she loves it.
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 75: ‘I’m black out wiff yew!’ Rita Phelan screeched naggishly at Grogan.
at black out with, adj.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 28: Maeve Healy is now coming downstairs in shorts. Mumu says she is a minx, a slithery article, Miss Notice Box. Mumu strongly disapproved of those who ‘put on airs,’ drawing attention to themselves by showing off.
at Miss Notice Box (n.) under notice box, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 146: To slash (to piss), to take a box (to crap), to spoon (to court), to sow (to love).
at take a box (v.) under box, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 124: If his animus against ‘nancy-boys’ was more pronounced than his animus against ‘corner-boys’, his animus against ‘Jewboys’ was greater still.
at Jew boy, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 149: Whereupon the Razz [...] laid the fellow out with an almighty haymaker in the breadbasket.
at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 193: Multiple flushings and vigorous application of stiff bumf, the toilet roll sent fairly spinning.
at bumf, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 270: Hasta la vista, cackface.
at cackface (n.) under cack, n.2
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 168: The Dodo was a card.
at card, n.2
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 60: Yule cotch it hot when yure Doddy hurs of duss.
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 138: Mumu had gone very red and said it was quite unsuitable reading for a chissler.
at chiseller, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 48: Country braces or what he called galluses and, tucked into the long-johns (combs.), a labouring man’s collarless cotton shirt known as Grandfather.
at combs, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 122: His pyjama trousers slipped down below his knees. The rear exposure was sensational [...] the hairy crevice and billygoat’s matted danglers and dingleberries.
at danglers, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 122: His pyjama trousers slipped down below his knees. The rear exposure was sensational [...] the hairy crevice and billygoat’s matted danglers and dingleberries.
at dingleberry, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 63: He had wet himself or done it in his pants.
at do it, v.2
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 149: Whereupon the Razz [...] had torn off his dog-collar, spat on his hands, squared up to the impertinent anti-Christ.
at dog-collar (n.) under dog, n.2
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 284: It (pneumonia) was ‘going’ in Dun Laoghaire; in due course he would catch a ‘dose’ of it, be laid up.
at dose, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 144: Certain Lower Line tacks had dry-bangs (a ride without the trousers removed) with passing Third Line sows.
at dry ride (n.) under dry, adj.1
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 153: He had an unclean mind and could make his tool stand up at will, a ferret stirring in a sack.
at ferret, n.2
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 68: Frig the fecker.
at frig, v.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 68: Frig the fecker!
at fucker, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 28: ‘We were only being Fuzziwuzzies,’ I said lamely.
at fuzzy-wuzzy, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 32: ‘Gas’ (’a gas article’) meant a merry grig, an amusing person.
at gas, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 60: I retired behind the mangle where the cats made their stinks. It was my glory-hole, Mumu said.
at glory hole, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 210: Forever accepting hand-outs, cutting corners.
at hand-out, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 20: Ah be Janey Mack, give over!
at janey mack!, excl.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 30: Coffey crouches like a monkey above the jax.
at jax, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 139: It was on formal occasions like these that the more theatrical of the Jays came into their own.
at Jays, n.
[UK] A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 119: Joss [...] put his head in the oven and turned on the juice and drank it in.
at juice, n.1
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