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[UK] P. Muldoon ‘The Soap-Pig’ in Meeting the British 25: [...] Drama Producer with the still-reputable Beeb, / where I had somehow wangled a job.
at Beeb, n.
[UK] P. Muldoon ‘The Soap-Pig’ in Meeting the British in Penguin Bk Contemp. Irish Poetry 386: [...] It’s a bar of soap / [...] / that I work each morning into a lather, / with my father’s wobbling-brush, / then reconcile to its pool of glop / on my mother’s wash-stand’s marble top.
at glop, n.
[UK] P. Muldoon ‘7, Middagh St: Chester’ cited in Meeting the British n.p.: Among the miscellaneous / Jack Tars / I met last week in a Sands Street bar / I came on one whose uncircumcised dong’s / sand-vein was a seam of beryl.
at jack tar, n.1
[UK] P. Muldoon ‘Bechbretha’ in Meeting the British n.p.: a swarm of bees / rolled all its thingamy / into one ball / and lodged in the fork of a tree.
at thingummy, n.
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