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[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 41: A coachload of absolute Mary-Anns.
at mary ann, n.1
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 202: I thought you must be down here after a bit of beige. That’s what most of the white guys come here for.
at beige, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 196: A bit of rough, you might say.
at bit of rough, n.2
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming Pool Library 240: I was trying to decide whether or not he was looking at me, whether this lull was [...] one of Charles's unsignalled abstentions, a mental treading water, 'blanking' as he called it.
at blank, v.2
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 256: My first visit was from Taha – a ‘box-visit’, a reunion conducted through glass.
at box, n.1
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 165: To the lav, where we brought each other off swiftly and greedily.
at bring off, v.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 172: Skinheads [...] Cretinously simplified to booted feet, bum and bullet head.
at bullet-head, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 194: I took Phil’s arm [...] he himself, keen to be so claimed, didn’t quite flow with it, butchly somehow held himself apart.
at butchly (adv.) under butch, adj.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 36: Quite a corker, too.
at corker, n.2
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 18: You wouldn’t find a Viscount cottaging.
at cottage, v.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 251: In a cottage one takes what one is given.
at cottage, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 173: [ref. to a homosexual] He gasped, spat out ‘Cunt’.
at cunt, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 169: I had come ordinarily dressed, in [...] jeans and daps.
at daps, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 196: The club went back a bit and under different names had been a modish Sixties dive.
at dive, n.2
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 118: The discreetly homosexual style of the whole place [...] the rich older men treating their bored and flirtatious young dolly-boys.
at dolly-boy (n.) under dolly, n.1
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 18: I had a lad in this morning with the most enormous donger. [Ibid.] 141: A little chap who’s already got a big donger on him, gets a hard-on all the time.
at donger, n.1
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 172: What to say, what was the snappy putdown?
at put-down, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming Pool Library 54: A very well-hung kid [...] brought me off epically during the next film .
at epically (adv.) under epic, adj.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming Pool Library 221: I was by far the most attractive person in the room, and I wanted something ravishing and epic .
at epic, adj.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 223: I did a few ferocious exercises and then flaked out.
at flake (out), v.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 173: Yeah! Fuckin’ nigger-fucker.
at fucker, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 213: ‘Don’t worry, old girl, I’ll wait for you.’ I patted him on the shoulder.
at old gal, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 66: The typical transsexual talk of the place [...] had thrown James into deep dejection when he innocently heard a boy he had a crush on talking of his girlfriend.
at girlfriend, n.1
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 19: [homosexual use] I had to have him.
at have, v.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 212: I’ve got a pretty frightful head.
at head, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 156: I grinned at his fidelity, his cleanness, the plump relief of his ... copper’s helmet.
at helmet, n.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 201: He was well jeal when I told him about you and me.
at jel, adj.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 223: The advertising johnnies.
at johnny, n.1
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 235: There were some interesting punky-looking boys with public school voices as well as real leather queens.
at leather queen (n.) under leather, adj.
[UK] A. Hollinghurst Swimming Pool Library 202: ‘Must have a piss,’ I said. [. . . .] I was kissing him and then bundling him down the passage and through the swing door. [...] A lock-up was empty and I pushed him in in front of me, falling back in amazement against the door when I had bolted it.
at lockup, n.
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