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[UK] D.H. Lawrence letter 15 May Coll. Letters (1962) I 11: The girl will have a soul she will not be a frippet.
at frippet, n.
[UK] D.H. Lawrence letter ? 15 Nov. in Coll. Letters (1962) I 565: The railway people, when one travels, seem rather independent and Bolshy.
at bolshie, adj.
[UK] D.H. Lawrence letter 3 July in Coll. Letters (1962) I 134: God curse them, funkers. God blast them, wish-wash.
at funker, n.1
[UK] D.H. Lawrence letter 3 July in Coll. Letters (1962) I 134: Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines [...] the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods [...] that make up England today.
at sod, n.1
[UK] D.H. Lawrence letter 3 July in Coll. Letters (1962) I 134: Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines [...] the miserable sodding rotters [...] that make up England today.
at sodding, adj.
[UK] D.H. Lawrence letter 17 Jan. Coll. Letters (1962) I 179: Don’t ever mind what I say. I am a great bosher, and full of fancies that interest me.
at bosher, n.
[UK] D.H. Lawrence Coll. Letters (1962) II 726: Being too much of a wet-leg, as they say in England, nakedly to enter into the battle.
at wet leg (n.) under wet, adj.1
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