1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 70: No, you’re a broth of a boyo, really.at broth of a boy, n.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 67: Speaking up for strikers, oppressed races, and art, and other leftish rag, tag and bobtail.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 58: He [...] strolled among the ragbags of puppy-fat and easy meat, that answered to the name of débutantes.at rag bag, n.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 116: Blah, blah, blah. Bumbo wonders to hear his mouth string platitudes.at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 11: I’m your bleeding father, and your bleeding mother, and your bleeding school, and you get twenty-eight bleeding bob a bleeding week, just like the bleeding rest of the bleeding bleeders. Bleed it ...at bleeding, adj.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 42: Let’s go and have a brown in the NAAFI. Billy came with him to drink in the NAFFI.at brown, n.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 93: We’ve got to sell ourselves to live, and who’ll buy Johnny Bull.at John Bull, n.1
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 93: And this bum isn’t going to fight in any bummy, phoney war.at bummy, adj.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 138: We’re busting Sarnt Issy as it is, for whipping more of the stores.at bust, v.1
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 65: It is impossible to get hold of the Commanding Officer [...] Bumbo decides to carry the can himself.at carry the can (for) (v.) under can, n.1
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 65: They sit [...] swearing to God, on their honour, cross their heart, that all will be rosy and hunky-dory.at hunky-dory, adj.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 66: Just show me once you are right, and the Brigade’s wrong, and I’ll eat my bloody bearskin.at eat one’s hat, v.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 84: Well, well, who’d have thought it? Hetero Bumbo is off with the harry homos.at Harry —-ers, phr.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 91: All you’ve got to do with these tin-pot gyppos is show them a bit of the old jackboot. I know the wogs.at gyppo, n.1
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 66: How do you think we’d run the ruddy Brigade if every twopenny-ha’penny Ensign thought he could do as he liked.at twopenny-halfpenny, adj.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 93: All we are is a lousy punch-drunk ex-champ, between a couple of real big men, jockeying around for the K.O.at k.o., n.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 129: Lawdie, Bumboboy, they’re pulling the chain nice and early.at lawdy!, excl.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 134: Duty be damned, says Sarnt James, and lands him one on the lughole.at lughole, n.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 86: Am off on another modelling job with lots of other lush thrushes.at lush thrush (n.) under lush, adj.2
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 70: Hoo’s tha’ auld City wurrrld bin mollockin’ ye around the noo?at mollock, v.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 118: Out on an exercise [...] wanted to have a quick one.at quick one, n.
1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 84: It’s all those King’s Road palsy-walsies of yours.at palsy-walsy, n.