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Few Eggs and No Oranges: the Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940–5 choose

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[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 8 July 15: We listened to the news and heard the bombshell about tea! Two ounces per head, per week!
at bombshell, n.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 15 Dec. 94: Queer doings in France and Italy.
at doings, n.1
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 12 Nov. 85: One bomb very near. It may be Campden Hill. It shook this house and gave me the jim-jams for a few moments.
at jim-jams, n.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 10 July 16: She had been ticked off by one Sister in the usual heartless manner.
at tick off, v.1
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 30 Dec. 101: I do hope they are not pasting Brum the same.
at paste, v.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 22 Oct. 71: I’m afraid Brum had a bit of a pasting. All Clear at 4a.m.
at pasting, n.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 16 Nov. 89: She felt she must say goodbye to everything. She is very plucky over it.
at plucky, adj.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 14 Dec. 94: I am glad the stuffing is being taken out of Mussolini at last.
at stuffing, n.1
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 4 Aug. 26: Examined the vegetable plot and the Hans Anderson Shelter. Really topping.
at topping, adj.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 22 Dec. 96: Heard that a bomber had come down on Victoria Station the previous night at 7p.m. That was the queer wonk I heard.
at wonk, n.2
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 16 April 154: It is our night for a Big Raid – guns are biffing away for all they are worth.
at biff, v.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 10 Apr. 151: Have been to Brum for Easter.
at Brum, n.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 3 Jan. 108: They seem to be making a dead set at the City.
at dead set, n.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 10 Apr. 152: Guns began and the sky was lousy with Germans.
at lousy with (adj.) under lousy, adj.
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 22 Feb. 129: He got rid of the other customers and then whispered, ‘Wait a mo.’ I found half a pound of cheese being thrust into my bag with great secrecy and speed!
at mo, n.1
[UK] V. Hodgson Diaries (1999) 20 Mar. 144: Very bad blitz last night, but only guns for us – but they were whoppers.
at whopper, n.
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