1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 171: ‘She’ll be right up the boo-ay if we’re not lucky,’ Arthur said.at up the boohai (adv.) under booai, n.
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 253: I’d blown all my chips so it was a case of getting down to some hard yakker for a while.at do one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 254: You weren’t actually married, of course. Not me, cob. She was keen enough, though.at cob, n.6
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 221: ‘I’ll crack along,’ Harry said. ‘I don’t know where the time gets to, these days.’.at crack on, v.1
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 253: It was hell’s own job rounding the bastards up.at hell’s own (adj.) under hell, n.
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 181: He knew the men still regarded him as a Homey, though it was well over thirty years since he’d left the Old Country.at homey, n.1
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 189: What I want out of Temple is a decent bloody bite, right from the hop.at from the hop under hop, n.1
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 236: All right joy-germ. What have you got to grizzle about?at joy germ (n.) under joy, n.
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 181: Been running round kicking up bobsy-die all morning.at kick up bobsy-die (v.) under kick up, v.
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 171: Special Christmas cards for the very special customers, at very special prices; which means cost. After that we’re home on the pig’s back.at on the pig’s back under pig, n.
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 174: His old man was pretty strict [...] Probably pukarooed any romances.at puckeroo, adj.
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 253: They found her the next morning. She was well stonkered.at stonkered, adj.
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 71: I know you. It’s just the beer talking.at it’s the beer talking under talk, v.
1960 R.M. Muir Word for Word 253: I’d blown all my chips so it was a case of getting down to some hard yakker for a while.at yakka, n.
2001 Word for Word 🌐 It might look as though corny were one more piece of city slicker mockery of things rural, as in corncobber, a rustic and corncracker, a poor white Kentuckian. But the slang term corn is much older, and almost certainly influenced the jazz meaning.at corncobber, n.