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[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 259: Face not done up [...] hair all anyhow!
at anyhow, adj.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 309: I don’t wish to think there’ll be any argle-bargleing when I’m gone.
at argle-bargle, v.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 52: Wish I could go straight bang into literary work.
at bang, adv.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 246: If anyone was aware how many blue beans made five it was Jim.
at know how many (blue) beans make five (v.) under beans, n.3
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 187: If I’d been able to write one more note, I should have been able to throw a pretty bomb-shell into your household.
at bombshell, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 57: The other side did justice to its principles by [...] writing the simple word, ‘Bosh!’.
at bosh!, excl.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 9: ‘A brainwave,’ said Phyllis [...] ‘has just occured to me.’.
at brainwave (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 270: He ’pears to have made up his mind to go a reg’lar buster, backing ’orses for more than he’d ever done.
at buster, n.2
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 203: She was always wanting to cackle, cackle, cackle, and I think it’s quite likely the young fellow got frightened of her.
at cackle, v.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 64: We’re going to take ourselves off, allowing a little time for spooning and canoodling on the way.
at canoodle, v.
[UK] W.P. Ridge Madame Prince 288: You’d have to mention other people’s names. Which wouldn’t suit you, not by a long chalk.
at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 142: I’m simply dying for a cup!.
at cuppa, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 164: She calls Georgina and Phyllis, ‘Duck’.
at duck, n.1
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 20: You’ll have the job, some day, of keeping ’em bright [...] Requires some elbow grease, mind you!
at elbow grease, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 204: She took up with a rather flashy sort of individual.
at flashy, adj.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 193: Je-rusalem, but a natty piece of goods.
at Jerusalem!, excl.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 32: Jim Lambert were a bit of a masher with the gals in those times.
at masher, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 149: Now it’s for you to say, my love, without any palaver [...] whether you are prepared to put up with that.
at palaver, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 32: One of ’em looks a bit peaky.
at peaky, adj.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 130: Sportive youths lifted each other up in order to ascertain the reason for this secrecy, and catching sight of Madame cried, ‘Hullo, Ma! Out on the randan?’.
at on the rantan under rantan, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 33: ‘Either of these two gals got a young man yet?’ ‘Not yet.’ ‘They’ll find ’emselves left on the shelf, if they ain’t careful.’.
at on the shelf under shelf, n.2
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 64: We’re going to take ourselves off, allowing a little time for spooning and canoodling on the way.
at spooning, n.
[UK] W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 160: ‘Had she money?’ ‘Tons!’.
at tons, n.
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