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Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: By this time the American looks as if he’s all out. The girl looks pretty red in the face.at all out, adj.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: By this time the American looks as if he’s all out. The girl looks pretty red in the face. Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: She points to some young girls sitting on the settee alongside the wall, near the piano... Inv. naively asks if they’re up to much. F30D (known as Mary) answers, ‘they’re all bugger-all.’.at bugger all, n.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 12: The other night at the club I was standing near the door and kept hearing the lads say ‘Well, see you at M.& S.’ – ‘I’ll be at M.& S. later.’ I thought, why meet at Marks and Spencer in the dark? So I said to one of my lads, ‘How are you going to find one another in the dark at Marks and Spencer?’ He said, ‘You are a boob, can’t you guess, it’s the Man and Scythe.’.at M and S, n.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: Investigator overhears one of the men say to the women: ‘Look at those bloody little bitches over there, they want their bloody arses smacked’.at arse, n.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 8: I don’t drink with me mates, only when me mother and father gets some in for a barney.at barney, n.2
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: A very young girl in the A.T.S. passed [...] shouting ‘He’s been asking for trouble all the evening. All right, I’ll blind him. But not with a blinkin’ glass’.at blinking, adj.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: Blacks, sailors, soldiers (Canadian and American) frequent this pub. Women mostly 30–40, hard-boiled types.at hard-boiled, adj.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 8: ‘No, I can’t be bothered to go hanging round the boozer.’ (Boy, 17, Fulham).at boozer, n.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: F30D says ‘Those girls don’t care a bugger but having a good time.’.at not give a bugger (v.) under bugger, n.3
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: They get the Army allowance, and they carry on, and have a good time with the fellows they get to know.at carry on, v.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: Look at those bloody little bitches over there [...] they take the sailors, asking for trouble, and when they’re left in the cart they wail about it, serves them bloody well right if they’re left to stew in their own juice.at in the cart under cart, n.1
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 8: ‘I’ve never been in a pub for beer, only to buy cigs. for my dad.’ (Boy, 12, Fulham).at cig, n.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: A girl says to another boy and girl (all about 18) ...he’s home on leave soon. We’ll have to arrange a ding dong somewhere.at ding-dong, n.5
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: A few girls of 17–18 present, all dolled up, but though they are looking all around them, and while they have ample opportunity to pick up fellows [...] they don’t.at dolled up, adj.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: Look at those bloody little bitches over there [...] they drink like fish, and they take the sailors, asking for trouble, and when they’re left in the cart they wail about it.at drink like a fish (v.) under drink, v.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: The waiter comes up to Inv. and says, ‘What would you like, duck?’.at ducks, n.1
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: Would you like to come and stay with me for the night? I’ll be a good little wife to you and you can have it hot and strong.at have it, v.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: They’ll stick me in a concentration camp yet. But, Jeeze, it couldn’t be worse than the place I’m in.at jeez!, excl.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: I’ve been up there twice and each time she’s larking about or reading.at lark, v.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 8: ‘I don’t drink with me mates, only when me mother and father gets some in for a barney, and then we have a “go” at it.’ (Boy, 16, Fulham).at mate, n.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 12: On Monday nights at the club they speak proudly of having got ‘pissed’ as they call getting drunk.at pissed, adj.1
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: F19 tells Mary she’d spent the afternoon in a pub... Inv. asks what it was like, she answers ‘Proper rum.’.at rum, adj.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 8: ‘We take half a dozen bottles of beer to one of our houses and then we have a bit of a spree.’ (Boy, 16, Fulham).at spree, n.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 11: More drinks are ordered – gosh! how they can swill it!at swill, v.
Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 3: Yes, of course I drink beer. You should have been at my brother’s wedding, we didn’t half throw it back.at throw back (v.) under throw , v.
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