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(con. 1920s) No Mean City 282: Isobel toiled all day to serve them with ‘pennyworths of black and white’.at black and white, n.1
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 282: Isobel toiled all day to serve them with ‘pennyworths of black and white’. (con. 1920s) No Mean City 220: They took it for granted, readily enough, that he was a good ‘battler’.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 212: Some of Johnnie’s friends were already mixing their red wine with methylated spirits [...] Johnnie himself had only tried ‘Red Biddy’ once.at red biddy (n.) under biddy, n.2
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 54: That old blade of mine, Mary Hay [...] Ah’m finished wi’ the Mary Hay lassie.at blade, n.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 309: He slashed the blond girl across the lips, and his other weapon laid open the cheek of the nearest of her champions. The second young fellow hesitated for a fatal second and was ‘branded’ in turn.at brand, v.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 4: ‘There’ll be nae more bread-snappers if I can help it,’ he resolved grimly. ‘Kids are all very well for a woman, but they’re a bliddy nuisance to a man.’.at breadsnapper (n.) under bread, n.1
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 30: Mary’s family was ‘on the buroo’.at buroo, n.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 290: She often had to chivvy Mary Allen, her lodger help, out of bed in the morning.at chivvy, v.1
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 304: Ah’ve just chucked up trying to be something, an’ Ah’m going tae do something instead.at chuck up, v.2
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 13: He heard the sound of a mouth organ. ‘That’ll be the clabber jigging, Johnnie,’ he exclaimed [...] Some fine dancers have been bred in the tenements, though nearly all of them began on the pavement with the clabber jiggings.at clabber jigging, n.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 214: If An canny click wi’ Lizzie, Ah can click right enough wi’ some of the ithers.at click, v.3
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 86: You’re no’ trying to come it, are you?at come it, v.1
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 296: ‘Can you no’ say something?’ she shrieked. ‘Are you crappy or what, John Gray? Are yo no’ man enough to go an’ take on that dirty bastard, Razor King.’.at crappy, adj.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 81: ‘Ah’ll be marked on the crust aw the same. See!’ His fingers parted his thick hair to show an ugly scar.at crust, n.1
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 218: It amused her that the younger girl should think herself so ‘dead thick’ (wide awake and knowing).at dead thick (adj.) under dead, adv.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 13: He heard the sound of a mouth organ. ‘That’ll be a clabber jigging, Johnnie,’ he exclaimed. ‘Come along an’ have a deck (look).’.at deck, n.2
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 110: I’ve seen your kind before [...] readin’ books and newspapers; winchin’ brainy bit stuffs wi’ good clothes over a duff figure.at duff, adj.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 147: ‘You’re fair crazy about the fighting,’ he said.at fair, adv.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 76: The other two ‘flymen’ made for the exit.at fly man (n.) under fly, adj.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 31: She was, quite definitely, ‘one of the hairy’ – a hatless slum girl.at hairy, n.1
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 213: Another pub raid – but a smaller affair than the magnificent ‘hole in the wall’ achievement – supplied the booze.at hole in the wall, n.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 105: I’m one of the lucky ones, too, that doesn’t know what idle set (unemployment) is.at idleset, n.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 75: Isobel was clearly a real ‘Jane bit o’ stuff’ – a girl of quality who wore a hat.at Jane, adj.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 9: Away and take a runnin’ jump at yoursel’!at take a running jump at yourself! (excl.) under jump, n.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 8: He went instead to a ‘kip-shop’ where, for three shillings, he could share a bed with a lass of eighteen.at kip shop (n.) under kip, n.1
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 11: ‘Nit the jorrie (Leave the girl alone)!’ he yelled. ‘Nark it! nark it!’.at nit, v.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 80: ‘Leave it tae me,’ he said loftily, ‘I’ll pey they Plantation wideoes (hooligans) for the smashing they gave ye.’.at wide-o, n.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 6: Arthur Ross was ‘well put on.’ He wore a neat blue suit and a bowler hat.at well put-on, adj.
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 28: In the language of the Gorbals, he was ‘well put on’ and proud of his ‘paraffin’.at paraffin, n.2
(con. 1920s) No Mean City 53: ‘Sit still, Ella!’ he commanded, ‘and don’t be plummy (dull).’.at plummy, adj.
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