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A Nice Night’s Entertainment: Sketches and Monologues 1956–1981 choose

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[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 17: We’d had a run of late nights and we were pretty fagged so round about ten I filled the hottie and Beryl and I went to bed.
at hottie, n.1
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 42: ‘A lot of the fellas from school were there and by eleven o’clock we’d knocked back a fair few pots’.
at pot, n.1
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 73: They’re all past masters at flogging the Australian gimmick, and they’re the blue-eyed boys of the continental art critics too .
at flog, v.
[Aus] B. Humphries A Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 79: So we all shacked up there with stacks of the old glühwein, a few crates of tinnies, a couple of little snow bunnies and no complications.
at tinnie, n.
[Aus] B. Humphries A Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 77: We had a keg in the boot and [a] few dozen tubes between us so there was much chundering en route.
at tube, n.1
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 146: If you like grouse gear, take an optic at these three big performers just come in the yard.
at optic, n.
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 165: He’s a cheeky beggar – always has been – more front on him than Myers.
at more front than Myers under front, n.1
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 174: I gets a squizz through the curtain at first class and there's Rupert bloody Murdoch and Kerry Packer poncing around with glasses of champagne in their hands.
at ponce about (v.) under ponce, v.
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 42: She dropped the broad hint that she’d like to go up to [...] Stratford some time [...] and I more or less dobbed myself in.
at dob oneself in (v.) under dob (in), v.
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 189: Of course I love you, horn-bag.
at hornbag (n.) under horn, n.2
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) gloss.
at snow, n.1
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) gloss.
at chemise-lifter, n.
[Aus] in ‘Gloss.’ B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981).
at cremmie, n.
[Aus] B. Humphries Nice Night’s Entertainment (1981) 186: Still feeling butchers after your op, are you Mau?
at butcher’s (hook), adj.
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