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[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 25: I’m not so very strong. I should cockle.
at I should cocoa under coffee and cocoa, v.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 117: The dignitary [...] was very much displeased at having been bamboozled into allowing a Requiem Mass to be sung for the soul of a pig.
at bamboozle, v.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 138: Bring your Bow-wow, your Puss-puss, your Dickie-bird.
at dicky-bird, n.1
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 57: Aristocrats are inclined to prefer Nazis while Jews prefer Bolshies.
at bolshie, n.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 138: Bring your Bow-wow, your Puss-puss, your Dickie-bird.
at bow-wow, n.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 41: There are Chinks and Japs and Fuzzy Wuzzies and Ice Creamers and Dagos, and so on.
at ice-creamer, n.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 81: A soldier’s dairies are well covered with ammunition pouches and for this reason should be left alone, and also becos a very little lower down yer gits the belly.
at dairy, n.1
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 206: Now that’s a man I could have been dotty about.
at dotty, adj.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 41: There are Chinks and Japs and Fuzzy Wuzzies and Ice Creamers and Dagos, and so on.
at fuzzy-wuzzy, n.1
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 27: In the night when you want to go to the loo.
at loo, n.1
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 139: Many mothers of dogs had fetched their little ones home.
at mother, n.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 243: He was now on the water-waggon.
at on the wagon, phr.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 181: Now we must scram.
at scram, v.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 247: ‘Spiffing,’ said the old Edwardian.
at spiffing, adj.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 117: There was fortunately nothing much to damage, except the ‘King’s’ tatty striped wall-papers.
at tatty, adj.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 88: The old gentleman [...] always seemed to have a wonderful thatch.
at thatch, n.
[UK] N. Mitford Pigeon Pie 182: At what stage [...] does the beautiful heroine abandon her lone trail and call in the heavy hand, large boots and vacant faces of the Yard?
at Yard, the, n.
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