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[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 157: ‘What dat bambaclaat say?’ ‘I’m say evenin’.’ ‘Can’t ’im see me playin’ domino?’.
at bambaclaat, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth (2001) 192: You’re a fucking faggot, yeah? Queer boy, poofter, batty-rider, shit-dick.
at batty rider (n.) under batty, n.2
[UK] (con. 1974) Z. Smith White Teeth 11: Her mind is gone. Buggered.
at buggered, adj.2
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 321: Surely a Witness lady don’ wan’ look like a, well, a buguyaga in de house of de Lord.
at buguyaga, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 21: Cheer up, bwoy.
at bwoy, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 10: The Hoover tube lay like a great flaccid cock on his back seat.
at cock, n.3
[UK] (con. 1974) Z. Smith White Teeth 6: Giving him a thorough cosh to the back of his head and almost knocking the boy off his perch.
at cosh, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 16: What’s the deal, man? [...] Encyclopedias or God?
at deal, n.1
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 20: If he’d played his cards right instead of starting a ding-dong, he might have had free love and bare breasts all over the gaff.
at ding-dong, n.5
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 24: It was the girls who chose the moniker and dished it out.
at dish (out), v.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 25: Ryan’s freckles were a join-the-dots enthusiast’s wet dream.
at wet dream, n.
[UK] (con. 1974) Z. Smith White Teeth 11: ‘You play like a faggot,’ said Samad, laying down the winning queens.
at faggot, n.1
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 32: An assorted company of Hippies, Flakes, Freaks and Funky Folk.
at flake, n.2
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 18: It’s New Year’s Day, for fuckssake. You best come in.
at for fuck’s sake!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1974) Z. Smith White Teeth 6: He’s gassing himself, Abba.
at gas, v.4
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 10: Suicide takes guts.
at gut, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 17: Are you high on something?
at high, adj.1
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 325: Your mudder don’ like to tell you since she got all hitey-titey.
at hitey-titey, adj.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 16: We have caught him on the hop.
at on the hop under hop, n.4
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 31: By the time the bell rang for end of school Monday Ryan Topps and Clara Bowden [...] were more or less an item.
at item, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 24: Ah, Jaysus, you’re not listening.
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 22: Man [...] dis life no easy!
at man, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 23: Ryan fancied himself as a bit of a Mod.
at mod, n.2
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 22: Unless he was really going nuts, Archie saw that come hither look.
at go nuts (v.) under nuts, adj.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 15: A young wife with one in the oven.
at have a bun in the oven (v.) under oven, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 17: You into that kind of scene?
at scene, n.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 17: Taking a step back behind the doorstep in case the man was violent as well as schiz.
at schizzy, adj.
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 37: It could never have fallen on the right side, so the argument goes, because that’s Sod’s Law.
at sod’s law (n.) under sod, n.1
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth 29: At No. 75 she spent an hour with a fourteen-year-old physics whizz called Colin.
at whiz, n.3
[UK] Z. Smith White Teeth n.p.: ‘There’s shoes back here that need your attention,’ came a voice from the store room. ‘Keep your tits on,’ said Neena.
at keep one’s tits (tied) on (v.) under tit, n.2
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