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[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 133: Jock would recognise a racehorse’s bahookey quicker than a human face.
at bahakas, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 290: His leg was hurting like blazes.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 47: There was a smouldering body as I recall. ‘Crispy batter’ we call those.
at crispy (critter), n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 132: The doms had been shuffled.
at doms, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 69: He was a bit worried about getting a ‘dough-ring’, as he termed the gut policemen specialised in.
at doughbelly (n.) under dough, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 133: He knew they were decorators because they’d asked him if he needed any work doing. ‘On the fly, like. Cheaper that way.’.
at on the fly under fly, n.1
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 159: It showed two football players in Hearts strip involved in an act of buggery, and above it was the caption ‘Jam Tarts – Well Stuffed!’.
at Jam Tarts, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 111: The students had tiptoed in at a minute past midnight, ‘well kettled’ as one of them termed it.
at kettled, adj.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 316: In the name of Auld Nick, turn that down!
at Old Nick, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 115: I opened my eyes and saw these two nurses washing my tadger.
at tadger, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 159: John, I thought for a minute you were a willie-watcher.
at willie, n.1
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