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The Breaking of Bumbo choose

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[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 70: No, you’re a broth of a boyo, really.
at broth of a boy, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 36: You’re all in.
at all in, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 121: Don’t be a B.F. I’m a friend of Jock’s.
at BF, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 93: And this bum isn’t going to fight in any bummy, phoney war.
at bummy, adj.
[UK] 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
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 36: Bumbo drunk. Bumbo busted.
at busted, adj.1
[UK] 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
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 126: It’s done. Finished. Caput.
at caput, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 42: Don’t you think she’s a hell of a fruit?
at fruit, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 129: Lawdie, Bumboboy, they’re pulling the chain nice and early.
at lawdy!, excl.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 134: Duty be damned, says Sarnt James, and lands him one on the lughole.
at lughole, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 70: Hoo’s tha’ auld City wurrrld bin mollockin’ ye around the noo?
at mollock, v.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 157: Don’t be a mutt.
at mutt, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 70: Sit you down, and tell Nunky Jock.
at nunky, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 128: We’ll off to a little place I wot of.
at off, v.1
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 118: Out on an exercise [...] wanted to have a quick one.
at quick one, n.
[UK] A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 84: It’s all those King’s Road palsy-walsies of yours.
at palsy-walsy, n.
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