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Ordinary Families 243: Nice, only a bit of a bore if he gets on to archaeology.at bit of (a), n.
Ordinary Families 243: Nice, only a bit of a bore if he gets on to archaeology. Ordinary Families 43: All my troupe were sick as dogs.at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
Ordinary Families 74: One did not speak to pacifists or conchies, one merely kicked their backsides if possible.at backside, n.
Ordinary Families 259: Damnably unfair, but that doesn’t matter.at damnably, adv.
Ordinary Families 63: Surely even a dank sort of person like Mr. Quest (‘dank’ was Lester’s word for him) who did not care much about his own children, must admire father?at dank, adj.
Ordinary Families 120: [of a boat] Done the old Pig in [...] Well, it doesn’t matter, she wouldn’t have lasted another season anyway.at do in, v.
Ordinary Families 169: But there I ‘froze’ again. If she glanced up she would see me.at freeze, v.2
Ordinary Families 120: If he gybes all standing she’s a gonner.at goner, n.1
Ordinary Families 50: Look, Lallie, there’s a kittiwake gull – are you going all goosey over it? Why don’t you write it a little poem?at goosey, adj.
Ordinary Families 272: The odd thing about me is that as a ‘pic’ type I should be so purely ‘hetero’ in spite of lack of opportunity.at hetero, adj.
Ordinary Families 271: Round about six, fifteen and twenty are the recognized ‘homo’ ages in women – in men, of course, they come about two years later.at homo, adj.
Ordinary Families 310: Quarts aren’t bigger than gallons. Afraid that rather spoils the ticking off!at tick off, n.
Ordinary Families 35: What’s panem and that got to do with Littlehampton?at pannam, n.
Ordinary Families 60: We darkly suspected Marnie, who had been told to dip it, of having taken the scientific view and scamped the job as useless.at scamp, v.
Ordinary Families 235: Unless his favourite daughter was getting the worst of it, father never interfered in ‘squaw-squabbles’.at squaw, n.
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