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letter in Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 187: Penrith is becoming a real funk-hole.at funkhole (n.) under funk, n.2
letter in Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 187: Penrith is becoming a real funk-hole. letter in Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 188: My God do they get up my shirt.at get up someone’s nose (v.) under nose, n.
letter in Blake Morrison Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 186: Don’t be a BF. You’re ideally suited.at BF, n.
letter in Morrison Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 196: Those doctors in Brum are exploiting you [...] Have it out with them right away. It’s not being bolshy.at bolshie, adj.
letter 24 Feb. in Morrison Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 103: He said, all narky like, ‘That’s what you asked for isn’t it?’.at narky, adj.
letter 6 May in Blake Morrison Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 143: We’re getting a lot of Sulpha-resistant gonorrhea – probably due to constant medication of the pros.at pro, n.
letter 22 Feb. in Morrison Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 93: TTFN. DILY. DDYLM.at t.t.f.n., phr.
letter 5 Jan. in Morrison Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002) 90: I’ve got a wizzo billet – fire and wash basin in room.at whizzo, adj.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 86: I’d not heard of the Portugese being Pork ’n’ Beans.at pork and beans, n.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 87: Expressions of happiness come in several forms: full of beans, box o’ birds and happy as a sandboy.at ...(a box of) birds under happy as..., adj.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 131: Landing lucky in the Azores, Flight-Lieutenant 118415 feels like a pig in clover.at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
(ref. to 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 145: Now the last and most vicious kind of VD, syphilis [...] It can take as long as three months before the sore appears on your penis – that’s supposing you’re not a pansy, who’s more likely to get his on his b-t-m.at b.t.m., n.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 87: Expressions of happiness come in several forms: full of beans, box o’ birds and happy as a sandboy.at box of birds, n.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 159: A conchie and a nancy boy, growled Arthur.at nancy boy, n.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 87: The dead, meanwhile, have simply bought it.at buy it (v.) under buy, v.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 144: ‘Now lads,’ he begins, ‘you know what I’m here to talk about: VD. The clap, the pox, syph, dripsy, French gout and all the other things they call it.’.at drip, n.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 211: So many erks say what a marvellous daughter he has.at erk, n.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 144: ‘Now lads,’ he begins, ‘you know what I’m here to talk about: VD. The clap, the pox, syph, dripsy, French gout and all the other things they call it.’.at French crown (n.) under French, adj.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 211: It’s not that he expects any thanks, but it’s a bind shoving decent work at rotten gnashers.at gnashers, n.
(ref. to 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 241: In a letter sent to Arthur the following day, she lets him have it.at let someone have it (v.) under have, v.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 87: Braggarts shoot a line.at shoot a line (v.) under line , n.1
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 108: The waitresses in Lyons Corner House – ‘nippies’ as they call them – serve cheap food.at nippy, n.2
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 86: The wartime slang was easy enough [...] but I didn’t know about people getting whistled (mildly drunk) or screechers (completely pissed).at screechers (adj.) under screech, n.
(ref. to 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 87: Someone who’s exhausted is shot at.at shot, adj.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 86: The wartime slang was easy enough [...] but I didn’t know about people getting whistled (mildly drunk).at whistled, adj.
(ref. 1940s) Things My Mother Never Told Me 87: While my father zizzed on campbeds, she worked in half a dozen English hospitals.at zizz, v.
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