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[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 300: Associates don’t care so much as a spart / [...] not a bloody / Tinker’s toss.
at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 395: A nice bit / O’ slap and tickle thrown in complement’ry.
at slap and tickle, n.2
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 293: Mum had too, / A thing for yanks [...] / So did my poor bent dad and a big thing too.
at bent, adj.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 308: If an old pro may whisper / A bijou wordette in your ear.
at bijou, adj.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 394: Into that flouncy cerise and bust her arse, / To keep the omi bonas on the rut.
at bona omee (n.) under bona, adj.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 394: Now she’s got to work, / Buckle on them Bristol Cities [i.e. fake breasts] / [...] and bust her arse.
at Bristol Cities, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 394: Now she’s got to work, / Buckle on them Bristol Cities [i.e. fake breasts] / [...] and bust her arse.
at bust one’s ass (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 304: Give me an old geezer so long as he’s sweet / And not a candyman or chickenhawk.
at candyman, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 304: Give me an old geezer so long as he’s sweet / And not a candyman or chickenhawk.
at chicken-hawk, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 301: She’s been clocking her seniors in the ’Dilly.
at clock, v.1
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 395: Cottage [..] Means a loo [...] and cottage-ing / means enterin’ said facility / For purposes other than urination.
at cottage, v.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 395: Do you know what cottage means in England, luv, [...] Means a loo / A public loo, that’s what, a bog, a crapper.
at cottage, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 310: I don’t give / A harlot’s crumpet.
at crumpet, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 313: ‘You must have loved / Your grandmother,’ he says. ‘Oh, indeed I did, / And were terribly cut up – bereft really – / At her passing.’.
at cut up, adj.1
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 394: A tart who’ll squat and take a bit o’ rabbit / From any ponce in the ’Dilly.
at Dilly, the, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 310: I must be a female impersonator / A ’Dilly drag queen on the game.
at Dilly, the, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 301: Some dosser’s done a book on that as well.
at dosser, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 310: I must be a female impersonator / A ’Dilly drag queen on the game.
at drag queen, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 300: It wouldn’t occur to a single / One of them [...] to sock a girl / To a meal once in a way.
at girl, n.1
[US] J. McCourt Queer Street 394: Men (whom we picture as either dull trolls or as humpy numbers drawn by Paul Cadmus).
at humpy, adj.3
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 395: Purposes that can land you in the jug / If the filth’s feelin’ exuberant that day.
at jug, n.1
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 298: What a memorable member!
at member, n.1
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 306: Just then what some bleedin’ dreary-sof Jerry / Jad to say [...] / Got up / My nose an no mistake.
at and no mistake under mistake, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 394: Oh, not that / He was in it, or anywhere near it, darling, / Not on your nellie.
at not on your nellie, phr.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 306: Just then what some bleedin’ dreary-sof Jerry / Jad to say [...] / Got up / My nose an no mistake.
at get up someone’s nose (v.) under nose, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 309: You can go shit y’self / In bloody Covent Garden market.
at go and shit yourself! (excl.) under shit oneself, v.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 293: A big thing too / One that must have given no end of relief / To yanks and tommies, paddies, taffys and jocks.
at Paddy, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 394: A tart who’ll squat and take a bit o’ rabbit / From any ponce in the ’Dilly.
at ponce, n.
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 394: A tart who’ll squat and take a bit o’ rabbit / From any ponce in the ’Dilly.
at rabbit, n.1
[US] J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 298: Yes, me, illegitimate – out of some yank’s / Shaggin’ bollocks what rogered me wayward mum.
at roger, v.1
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