1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 116: Surely there’s no need to go about looking like a rag-bag?at rag bag, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 90: This writing business! What b—s it all is!at ballocks!, excl.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 79: The voices were so soggy, so infinitely beery.at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 193: If that man wasn’t too drunk to stand, I’d knock his block off.at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 30: Oh, boy! There’s a peach for you!at oh boy!, excl.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 225: Gordon waved a foot at the buggy ceiling.at buggy, adj.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 168: He’d spend every penny he had if he felt like it. Ten whole quid to bust!at bust, v.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 28: ‘Hullo, chappie!’ he said blithely.at chappie, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 105: And of course your char’s gone home.at char, n.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 53: The little docile cit who slips home by the six-fifteen to a supper of cottage pie and stewed tinned pears.at cit, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 69: There was never anything that could properly be called conversation at all; only the stupid clacking that goes on at parties everywhere.at clack, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 17: Lawrence was all right, and Joyce even better before he went off his coconut.at coconut, n.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 14: Dust thou art, to dust returnest [...] You’re cold meat, if ever Scotchman was.at cold meat, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 181: ‘Coming it a bit, aren’t you?’ said the commercial traveller.at come it, v.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 29: Come on down to the Cri and we’ll pinch the barmaid’s bum.at Cri, the, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 30: ‘So that’s why you’re all dolled up, is it?’ [...] ‘You bet it is, chappie! Coo, what a peach!’.at dolled up, adj.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 208: It’s too much fag to shave every day.at fag, n.2
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 240: He managed to fob her off with something which she said grudgingly she ‘didn’t think she’d had before’.at fob someone off (v.) under fob, v.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 9: A gallery of monstrous doll-faces – pink vacuous faces, full of goofy optimism.at goofy, adj.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 72: It was queer that a prosperous hack critic like Paul Doring should live in such a place.at hack, n.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 89: It’s a drowsy kind of job. Swapping backchat with old hens.at hen, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 70: Half of them were those hen-witted middle-aged women.at hen-headed (adj.) under hen, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 22: Gordon put on his homey library manner.at homey, adj.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 11: Q.T. Sauce Keeps Hubby Smiling.at hubby, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 7: Fivepence halfpenny – twopence halfpenny and a Joey. He paused, took out the miserable little threepenny-bit.at joey, n.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 250: Christ, what muck! But of course it was an American paper. The Americans always go one better on any kinds of beastliness.at muck, n.1
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 17: A youth of twenty, cherry-lipped, with gilded hair, tripped Nancifully in.at nancifully (adv.) under nancy, n.
1936 ‘George Orwell’ Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 18: A nice-looking boy, though, for all his Nancitude.at nancitude (n.) under nancy, n.