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Tramp-Royal on the Toby choose

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[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 14: I didn’t care a footer for how romantic the name sounded.
at not care a fouter, v.
[UK] ‘The Dirge of the Dole’ in M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 228: We are the also-ranners, / Us workless blokes on the Dole.
at also-ran, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 105: All I could buy was a twopenny bowl of camphor-and-moth and a penny mug of you-and-me.
at camphor and moth, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 105: All I could buy was a twopenny bowl of camphor-and-moth and a penny mug of you-and-me.
at you and me, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 165: Come on, my lad, show a leg! [...] rise and shine!
at rise and shine!, excl.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 74: I [...] explore my many pockets for the packet of black-and-white which a tramp like me always carries with him.
at black and white, n.1
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 49: Do not arguefy or show me.
at argufy, v.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 290: Those bozos sure give me a pain in the pants.
at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 84: In spite of the gosh-awful torture of getting there I got there.
at gosh-awful, adj.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 154: These are the shagsters, or hard-up men. Their blend [...] is called hard-up, kerbstone twist, B.D.V. (Bend Down Virginia), and other names.
at b.d.v., n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 131: I [...] got down to it bald-headed with my coat off.
at bald-headed, adv.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 123: Scores of Scotties, Paddies, Taffies, Brummies, Yorkies, and Yellow Bellies.
at yellow belly, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 368: tummy-timber, food.
at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 21: I was given a fistful of fags and one-and-a-bender.
at bender, n.1
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 174: You can bet your braces that cushioned seats and uncushioned seats are at the bottom of it.
at bet one’s boots (v.) under bet, v.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 164: There’s nae better place in a’ the Big Smoke.
at Big Smoke, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 252: A sudden blatter of hail.
at blatter, v.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 275: ‘Mind your own cursed business!’ and blasting and blinding, he hauled off Rab.
at blind, v.2
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 195: A couple of splits, two blinking bloodhounds of the blooming Law, were hot on my trail!
at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 120: ‘You can arrest me when I come back, can’t you officer?’ Boy Blue pondered deeply.
at blue boy, n.2
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 14: I [...] got canned up, and some blushing dagoes half-inched my dough.
at blushing, adj.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 212: When our name was called we had to step briskly up to the desk, behind which stood the Big Brass Boss.
at boss, n.2
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 135: Such pessimism is as rare on the Toby as a Jew-boy or a Cockney.
at Jew boy, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 272: His brain automatically atrophies and becomes detached from the brain-pan.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 291: Guess we’re sure handing the fishes a swell break, eh?
at give someone/something a break (v.) under break, n.1
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 6: I sip my brew and munch my tommy.
at brew, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 123: Scores of Scotties, Paddies, Taffies, Brummies, Yorkies, and Yellow Bellies.
at Brummy, n.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 78: ‘Bull!’ was my not altogether polite criticism of this long-winded discourse.
at bull!, excl.
[UK] M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 14: I burned the breeze as fast as my leg would let me.
at burn the wind (v.) under burn, v.
[UK] ‘The Dirge of the Dole’ in M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 229: Oh, we wish we were dead! A curse on the head / Of the man who began the Buroo!
at buroo, n.
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