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The Leveller choose

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[Scot] (con. 1930s) G. Stewart Leveller 34: ‘Jam it up your arse,’ was my reply.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[Scot] (con. 1930s) G. Stewart Leveller 33: Little Scar Face Mick, a Sicilian gambler, back-stop Matt Feitch and Cock Smith, a broken-nosed flabby youth with a lot of talk.
at backstop (n.) under back, adj.2
[Scot] (con. 1930s) G. Stewart Leveller 21: The ‘drunken bums and alkies’ were dirty [...] and hung around pubs, ‘cold biting’ — begging money.
at cold-bite, v.
[Scot] (con. 1940s) G. Stewart Leveller 139: The Bucko paid off on compo with a bad back.
at compo, n.
[Scot] G. Stewart Leveller 118: Listen, cunt, you got off light last night.
at cunt, n.
[Scot] G. Stewart Leveller 56: If any of the firemen were sick or injured you were called upon to work a ‘Deucer’ (two hours of his watch each).
at deuce, n.1
[Scot] (con. 1934) G. Stewart Leveller 24: No matter what race, Slav, Greek, Italian, Maltese, they were all Dings.
at ding, n.2
[Scot] G. Stewart Leveller 27: ‘Get fucked!’ I told him with hands clenched.
at get fucked!, excl.
[Scot] (con. 1940s) G. Stewart Leveller 91: ‘Bob, for Christ’s sake, Green’s a security walloper,’ I gee’d.
at gee (up), v.
[Scot] G. Stewart Leveller 236: As the Ghan said, All things must be paid for.
at ’Ghan, n.
[Scot] G. Stewart Leveller 240: I still hung on to my ‘good guy’ image.
at good guy (n.) under good, adj.1
[Scot] G. Stewart Leveller 112: A blue started and I ironed Arty out.
at iron out (v.) under iron, v.
[Scot] (con. 1940s) G. Stewart Leveller 142: You’re a cunt, a stand-over man and one of the most selfish bastards I have met.
at stand-over man, n.
[Scot] (con. 1940s) G. Stewart Leveller 58: The ‘peggy’ (crew attendant), went amidship to draw our rations.
at peggy, n.1
[Scot] (con. 1940s) G. Stewart Leveller 57: The firemen on this ship were mostly hard cases: Liverpool Irishmen, (scoucers).
at Scouser, n.
[Scot] (con. 1950s) G. Stewart Leveller 163: I could see the possibilities of a boxing troupe. I realized that the whole situation depended on the owner-spruiker.
at spruiker, n.
[Scot] (con. 1940s) G. Stewart Leveller 91: ‘Bob, for Christ’s sake, Green’s a security walloper,’ I gee’d.
at walloper, n.1
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