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[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 164: I always thought you were a bit of a lezzie.
at bit of (a), n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 164: [She] dropped dead two hours later in her trailer but san-fairy-ann, what’s that to me, and where’s my fiver?
at san fairy ann, phr.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 215: My sceptred arse.
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 247: ‘Don’t play the innocent wiv me,’ he said. ‘You evil baggage.’.
at baggage, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 174: You daft old beggar.
at beggar, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 70: I’m not on it all night, blah-bloody-blah to some bint.
at bint, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 122: We all tried. But you was stuck fast, you silly bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 200: He wouldn’t, sort of, undo his clothes and take out private bits of himself in public?
at bits, n.1
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 70: I’m not on it [phone] all night, blah-bloody-blah to some bint.
at bloody, adv.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 214: Why don’t you just bog off and let me get some privacy.
at bog off, v.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 314: Did you think I was a brickie from off the building site?
at brickie, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 34: She gave the whole tribe the brush-off.
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 133: I was crying and swearing and shouting [...] ‘Bugger off back where you came from’.
at bugger off, v.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 165: In the caff at the lorry park.
at caf, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 164: The secret signal that men make to other men, to say they want a chinwag and a smoke.
at chinwag, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 109: If you’re going to chuck up, go outside and do it.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 164: She ran like the clappers out of hell, dropped dead two hours after.
at like the clappers (adv.) under clappers, n.3
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 207: Don’t come that with me, matey.
at come it, v.1
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 132: I know that cove, he’s dead he is.
at cove, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 209: Oh, la-di-da.
at la-di-da(h), adj.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 324: It’s a bit more upmarket than going on the razz and sicking up vodka outside some club.
at on the razzle dazzle (phr.) under razzle-dazzle, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 164: The trouble is I’m dead [...] the trouble is it must have fallen out me pocket.
at dead, adj.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 196: Let him have a win on the dogs.
at dogs, the, n.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 104: Keith tossed the empties out from under the sink.
at empty, n.1
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 214: Oh, fuckerama! Whatever are they called?
at -erino, sfx
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 326: You ask my ex.
at ex, n.1
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 322: ‘Fair dos,’ Gavin said.
at fair dos under fair, adj.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 164: Anybody showing his legs like that ’as got to be of the fairy persuasion.
at fairy, adj.
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 157: With Morris around I really need some sort of fanny guard.
at fanny, n.1
[UK] H. Mantel Beyond Black 179: We’re all worn to a frazzle [...] we’re on the end of out nerves.
at wear to a frazzle (v.) under frazzle, n.
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