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[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne [BBC radio] sandy: And, of course, Reynard. horne: The fox? sandy: No, ducky. Reynard La Spoon, the choreographer – he’s a close personal, ent he, Jule?
at personal, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne 10 June [BBC radio] Country House! Ugh naph – make it a slum tenement in Salford.
at naff, adj.1
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne [BBC radio series] Hello! We’re from the Daily Palari, yes! Can we have five minutes of your time?
at palarie, v.
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne 10 June [BBC radio] Now – I can see it – a troupe of Rhinoceroses dragged up as Pierrots trolling about a Salford Slum and singing ‘Keep the Home Burning.’.
at troll, v.
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne 16 Mar. [BBC radio] See this paperback – You have your Elizabeth Taylor done in half-tones, reclining on this chaise longue – that’s your actual French – decollete down to her ankles, with a wanton look all over her eek.
at your actual, adj.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Prods’ Round the Horne 16 Apr. [BBC radio] I see Samson as huge and all butch, with great bulging thews and whopping great lallies, with long blond riah hanging right down his Jim and Jack.
at jim and jack, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Grapplers’ Round the Horne [BBC radio] And his camera angles – all to pot! Kept dollying in on me bad side. You see, from the wrong angle I look almost plain.
at dolly in (v.) under dolly, n.1
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne [BBC Radio] Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vada-ing the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by.
at dolly, adj.
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne 16 Mar. [BBC radio] kh: You certainly go in for lurid covers. kw: Got to ducky. That’s what sells books.
at ducky, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Prods’ Round the Horne 16 Apr. [BBC radio] She vadas his sleeping eek, and she pulls out this pair of scissors and lops off his riah.
at eek, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Books’ Round the Horne 20 Mar. [BBC radio] julian: We’ll call it – Vole Flanders, The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Water Slut. sandy: Fantabulosa!
at fantabulosa, adj.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Grapplers’ Round the Horne [BBC radio] Jules and me have handled all the top grapplers at one time or another. Take the Hooded Terror – he’s one of ours. The Iron Man, he’s one too. Then there’s the Borneo maniac – comes on as a gorilla.
at grappler, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Prods’ Round the Horne 16 Apr. [BBC radio] I see Samson as huge and all butch, with great bulging thews and whopping great lallies.
at lallie, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Books’ Round the Horne 20 Mar. [BBC radio] Our film Motor Cycle Au Pair Boy got panned by the critics.
at pan, v.1
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Prods’ Round the Horne 16 Apr. [BBC radio] I see Samson as huge and all butch, with great bulging thews and whopping great lallies, with long blond riah hanging right down his Jim and Jack.
at riah, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Books’ Round the Horne 20 Mar. [BBC radio] Hello, Mr. Horne. What brings you trolling in here?
at troll, v.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Books’ Round the Horne 20 Mar. [BBC radio] Let’s have a vada. Hmm – it’s a bit dull, isn’t it?
at have a vada (v.) under varda, v.
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne 22 May [BBC radio] She’ll vada me and smile, / I’ll understand and in a little while / She’ll hold my German band, / And though it seems absurd.
at German bands, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne 22 May [BBC radio] I saw an advertisement which read – ‘Get away from it all – spend your holiday at the Bona Guest House, Bogmouth’, so I decided to throw a few things into a bag and give it a try.
at bona, adj.
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne 22 May [BBC radio] She’ll vada me and smile, / I’ll understand and in a little while / She’ll hold my German band, / And though it seems absurd / There’ll be nante palare.
at nanty palaver! (excl.) under nanty, adv.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Bijou Tourettes’ Round the Horne 30 Apr. [BBC radio] Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vada-ing the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by.
at omee, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Bona Bijou Tourettes’ Round the Horne 30 Apr. [BBC radio] Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vada·ing the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by.
at polone, n.
[UK] Took & Feldman Round the Horne 22 May [BBC radio] She’ll vada me and smile, / I’ll understand and in a little while / She’ll hold my German band, / And though it seems absurd [etc.].
at varda, v.
[UK] Took & Feldman ‘Ballet Bona’ Round the Horne 24 Mar. [BBC radio] Now look. Turn, Jule. Watch him, Mr. Horne. He’s on the turn. Now that’s beautiful. Isn’t that beautiful, that’s Fantabulosa.
at fantabulosa, adj.
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