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[UK] E. Blair letter 3 Mar. in Complete Works X (1998) 14: Most of the chaps [on] the other side were in aufel [sic] rats and they were runing [sic] at me like angry dogs.
at rat, n.1
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 64: What yours truly went through here four years gone just beats the whole jazz-band.
at beat the band (v.) under band, n.2
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. Complete Works X (1998) 65: Come on boys [...] we don’t want any cops in this derned show.
at darned, adj.
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 64: I guess you College students on this side of the duckpond know what’s what in the liquor department.
at duckpond (n.) under duck, n.1
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 65: There were five junks in the bateau, four with the oars and one squatting in the stern.
at junk, n.1
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 65: [They] were rowing away down stream in a long thin coracle as if the Old Man himself was after them.
at old man, n.
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 64: I’m not much on to many things in this little island.
at on, prep.
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 65: They were kicking up an ear-splitting shindy.
at kick up a shindy (v.) under shindy, n.
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 65: We don’t let croaksters vamoose like that in Arizona. I waved my shooter and emptied two rounds of dope into the galley-pullers.
at shooter, n.1
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 65: We don’t let croaksters vamoose like that in Arizona.
at -ster, sfx
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 64: Hi, you, Mose [...] bring me a stiff — a big stiff, and put it down to this guy.
at stiff ’un, n.
[UK] E. Blair in College Days (Eton) 4 1 Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 65: A bunch of ugly-looking muts [...] shouting like Mexicans with their back teeth under.
at have one’s back teeth afloat (v.) under teeth, n.
[UK] E. Blair ‘A Rebuke to the Author, John Flory’ in Complete Works X (1998) 103: With all these yellow-bellies (Eurasians). See what happens.
at yellow belly, n.
[UK] E. Blair letter 4 Sept. in Complete Works X (1998) 228: As to new words, here are some [...] Pony = a shit.
at pony (and trap), n.
[UK] E. Blair ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 19 Sept.–8 Oct. in Complete Works X (1998) 231: Bly, a ... an oxy-acetylene blowlamp.
at bly, n.1
[UK] E. Blair ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 28 Aug. in Complete Works X (1998) 218: He and some others [...] had discovered one of their number to be a ‘Poof’ or Nancy Boy.
at nancy boy, n.
[UK] E. Blair letter 4 Sept. in Complete Works X (1998) 228: I had thought that the ‘rhyming slang’ was quite extinct, but one occasionally hears it [...] ‘the hot cross bun’ for the sun, etc.
at hot cross bun, n.
[UK] E. Blair letter 4 Sept. in Complete Works X (1998) 228: As to new words, here are some [...] Chat = a louse.
at chats, n.2
[UK] E. Blair ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 19 Sept.–8 Oct. in Complete Works X (1998) 231: Didecai, a . . . a gypsy.
at diddicoi, n.
[UK] E. Blair letter 4 Sept. in Complete Works X (1998) 228: As to new words, here are some [...] Drum up, to = to make a fire.
at drum up, v.1
[UK] E. Blair letter 4 Sept. in Complete Works X (1998) 228: The only reliable tin for a billy (known as a ‘drum’) is a snuff tin, preferably a 2 lb. one.
at drum, n.5
[UK] E. Blair ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 2–19 Sept. in Complete Works X (1998) 223: They were the kind of people who are generally drunk on Saturday nights and who tack a ‘fucking’ on to every noun.
at fucking, adj.
[UK] E. Blair letter 4 Sept. Complete Works X (1998) 228: As to new words, here are some [...] Get = ? Word (noun) of abuse, but meaning uncertain.
at get, n.1
[UK] E. Blair ‘The Spike’ in Adelphi Apr. in Complete Works X (1998) 200: Old ‘Daddy’, aged seventy-four, with his truss, and his red watering eyes: a herring-gutted starveling [...] looking like the corpse of Lazarus.
at herring-gutted, adj.
[UK] E. Blair ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 19 Sept.–8 Oct. in Complete Works X (1998) 231: Hard-up . . . tobacco made from fag ends.
at hard-up, n.1
[UK] E. Blair letter 4 Sept. in Complete Works X (1998) 228: As to new words, here are some [...] Skipper, to = to sleep in the open.
at skipper (it), v.
[UK] E. Blair ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 19 Sept.–8 Oct. in Complete Works X (1998) 231: Jack off, to . . . to go away.
at jack off, v.2
[UK] E. Blair letter 27 Aug. in Complete Works (1998) X 212: I am writing this in a lodging house. It is a 7d. kip — & looks it.
at kip, n.1
[UK] E. Blair ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 19 Sept.–8 Oct. in Complete Works X (1998) 231: Scrump . . . to steal.
at scrump, v.1
[UK] E. Blair ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 19 Sept.–8 Oct. in Complete Works X (1998) 230: Shackles . . . broth or gravy.
at shackles, n.
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