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The Man on the Rock choose

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[UK] F. King Man on Rock 183: Mrs. Vrissoglou began to scream at them in Greek: ‘What is all this? [...] Can’t two decent women sit in privacy without a number of bum-boys’ – she used a word which is even cruder and more forceful in Greek – ‘spying on them’. [Ibid.] 246: That was the most humiliating thing of all. I was one of ‘them’ [...] the bum-boys from Constitutional or Omonoia Square.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] F. King Man on Rock 172: If any accent should be called chi-chi, that should.
at chee-chee, adj.
[UK] F. King Man on Rock 245: ‘O.K. Some more of this hogwash.’ He held out his tankard.
at hogwash, n.
[UK] F. King Man on Rock 7: I can’t even afford to pay the never-never on a wireless, let alone a telly.
at never-never, the, n.2
[UK] F. King Man on Rock 220: He’s a peasant dumb-ox.
at peasant, n.
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