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Tom O’ Bedlam’s Beauties choose

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[UK] P. Reading ‘Legacies’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 48: Still, better pull yourself together, Ethel old girl, or you’ll end up like poor Perry – finish your days in the Bin.
at bin, n.
[UK] P. Reading ‘Legacies’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 48: Peregrine’s popping off like that must have upset the old bird, I suppose.
at old bird, n.
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Addle/Silly/Chuckle/Dunder/ Sap/Bone/Block/Thick/Muddle/Crack/ -Heads.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Simple Simons / Asses, Owls, Donkeys, Mules, / Nincompoops, Wiseacres, Boobies, / Noodles, Numskulls, Gawks, Tomfools.
at booby, n.1
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Addle / Silly / Chuckle / Dunder / Sap / Bone / Block / Thick / Muddle / Crack- / Heads.
at chucklehead, n.
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Nutty, Screwy, [...] Do-Lally, Dopey, Silly.
at doolally, adj.
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Addle/Silly/Chuckle/Dunder / Sap/Bone/Block/Thick/Muddle/Crack- / Heads.
at sap-head, n.
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Nutty, Screwy, Ga-Ga, Dull, / Strange, Do-Lally, Dopey, Silly, / Touched, A Bit M., Up the Pole.
at nutty, adj.2
[UK] P. Reading ‘Legacies’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 48: Peregrine’s popping off like that must have upset the old bird, I suppose.
at pop off, v.1
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Crackers, Potty, Loony, Bonkers, [...] Touched, A Bit M., Up the Pole.
at up the pole, adj.1
[UK] P. Reading ‘Commitment’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 54: Gerald’s so nice, a carpet-slipper rep, / he fell head-over-heels for me.
at rep, n.
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ in Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Simple Simons / Asses, Owls, Donkeys, Mules, / Nincompoops, Wiseacres, Boobies, / Noodles, Numskulls, Gawks, Tomfools.
at simple simon, n.1
[UK] P. Reading ‘The Euphemisms’ Tom O’Bedlam’s Beauties 42: Addle/Silly/Chuckle/Dunder/Sap/Bone/Block/Thick/Muddle/Crack- / Heads.
at thickhead, n.
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