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[UK] P. Larkin letter 20 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 7: Am attempting to live on 8d a day till end of vacation. At present am 8½ to the bad. You see, beer is 8d a day.
at to the bad under bad, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 9 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 4: I suppose my writing is terrible. Sod & ballocks, anyway.
at ballocks!, excl.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 20 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 7: Balls to the war. Balls to a good many things, events, people, institutions.
at balls to...! (excl.) under balls!, excl.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 9 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 5: I have a drumming sensation at the back of my skull. My tooth still aches. Balls & anus!
at balls!, excl.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 20 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 5: The idea is that ‘trust in life’ idea that I vaguely said would take care of you if you did some violent act & released central control. In other words, if you chucked up the trouble and spanged back against the core.
at chuck up, v.2
[UK] P. Larkin letter 9 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 4: I suppose my writing is terrible. Sod & ballocks, anyway. Not to mention cunt & fuck.
at cunt!, excl.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 20 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 6: Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s & everybody else can fuck off (with a peculiar galloping motion.).
at fuck off, v.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 20 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 5: I’ve read all the interesting books I brought & feel generally shat upon.
at shat on, adj.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 9 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 3: Then we peed off, I lugging my suitcase that became unbearably heavy as the day wore on.
at pee off (v.) under pee, v.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 9 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 3: Pop was here on Saturday [...] bearing my (official) copy of/from ‘the Listener’ & a cheque for 2 gns.
at pop, n.3
[UK] P. Larkin letter 9 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 4: I suppose my writing is terrible. Sod & ballocks, anyway. Not to mention cunt & fuck.
at sod it! (excl.) under sod, v.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 10 Nov. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 25: I remember with envy the evenings we used to have about a year ago: certain percentage of creative arsing-about.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 16: What is truth? Balls. What is love? Shite.
at balls, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 16 Sept. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 21: A bastard who can bastard well write bastard shit like that bastard well ought to be bastard well stuffed with broken glass, the bastard.
at bastard-well (adv.) under bastard, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 15: Several workmen shat themselves with laughing so it must have looked funny. Bugger me.
at bugger me! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 15: Cunt and bugger Oxford women. How can they help you?
at bugger, v.1
[UK] P. Larkin letter 16 Apr. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 12: Likewise, the ‘New Year Poem’ which I enclose too is buggering fine.
at buggering, adj.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 17: These men are shit-pans, come-pots and toss-bottles.
at come-pot (n.) under come, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 July in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 19: I go to Stratford Memorial Theatre every Saturday to see Shakespeare [...] I’m a vulture for culture in my own way.
at culture-vulture, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 16 Apr. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 12: I think this is really bloody cunting fucking good.
at cunting (adj.) under cunt, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 15: Several workmen shat themselves with laughing so it must have looked funny. Bugger me.
at shit oneself, v.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 17: These men are shit-pans, come-pots and toss-bottles.
at shit-pan (n.) under shit, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 16: What is truth? Balls. What is love? Shite.
at shite, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 14: I am merely starting a letter to you, having 5 minutes ago stamped out of the Playhouse & a shitty play.
at shitty, adj.1
[UK] P. Larkin letter 16 Apr. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 11: This letter will be difficult to write on several counts. (a) this sodding vile pen.
at sodding, adj.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 23 June in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 17: These men are shit-pans, come-pots and toss-bottles.
at tosspot, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 16 Apr. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 13: Pardon me if I appear to talk like an egotistical turd.
at turd, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 31 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 29: Whop! I’ve just been struck dead for blasphemy.
at whop!, excl.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 19 Sept. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 44: I do just bugger all and tend to stagnate.
at bugger all, n.
[UK] P. Larkin letter 6 July in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 35: I awoke feeling the thumb of God in the small of my ballocks.
at ballocks, n.
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