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The Harrovians choose

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[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 87: It don’t matter a twopenny damn if they score again.
at not matter a tuppenny (damn), v.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 33: Who cares a jot, I should like to know, / Whether the game be toilsome or no.
at not care a jot, v.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 40: The room fairly stank of baccy.
at bacca, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 31: Hope you’ve brought back some jam this time . . . you bagged all mine at the beginning of last term.
at bag, v.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 95: When I was a new man I once shoved twenty nosewipes down my bags.
at bags, n.2
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 34: Beaks will believe any bilge.
at beak, n.1
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 31: Bilge, you never paid it back.
at bilge, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 39: You’ve all jolly well got to sweat like blazes, or you’ll get the skin taken off your backs.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 32: I say, you mustn’t try and be clever or you’ll get jolly well booted.
at boot, v.1
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 257: You needn’t think just because you’re Head of the House you’re going to boss round as if you were God Almighty.
at boss, v.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 32: Ratford’s vulgar bounce was in marked contrast to Parry’s reposeful dignity.
at bounce, n.1
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 23: Would old Pycroft be fearfully bucked to join Horrocks?
at bucked, adj.2
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 214: So pray don’t weary me with the clap-trap of stale sarcasm.
at clap-trap, n.1
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 88: They were utterly cooked. They had ceased to have any conscious control of their muscles.
at cooked, adj.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 112: I say, just look at Pinford. Funny old cuss.
at cuss, n.1
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 126: Gall had cut his Latin prose.
at cut, v.4
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 41: Anyhow, you’ve damned well got to.
at damn well, adv.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 199: It isn’t pleasant to have these big louts making a dead set at one every time I touch the ball.
at dead set, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 127: Cadby, despite the fact that he often made himself unpleasant at football, was rather an old dear.
at old dear, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 192: That was a facer. Apparently pork-pie was beginning to pall.
at facer, n.2
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 78: It is only when he reaches the university that he realizes that such banter is often a ‘floater’.
at floater, n.2
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 54: In school stories a footer funk is the object of univeral scorn.
at funk, n.2
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 78: Good lord, you might tell your governor to dress like a gentleman.
at governor, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 179: ‘Congrats, Cadby!’ ‘Damned glad you’ve got ’em at last!’ ‘Gratters, ol’ man!’.
at gratters, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 10: You swing your arms just like my sister when she gets hairy.
at hairy, adj.4
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 197: Who the hell are you? You’re only a priv on sufferance.
at who the hell...?, phr.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 37: Hallo, old Ikey! bin robbin’ the widow and orphan, you old usurer?
at ikey, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 152: Was he a blooming illegit?
at illegit, adj.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 211: I’ve just had an awful pi-jaw from my tutor.
at pi-jaw, n.
[UK] A. Lunn Harrovians 105: Harrow did a lot for you [...] and you’re not going to leave her in the lurch, are you?
at lurch, n.
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